Hildegarde Knef is released from a concentration camp. She returns to a ruined Berlin and her apartment, where she finds WIlhelm Borchert in possession. He will not leave, so she stays in one room and he in another. He's a drunk, but as the movie progresses, they come to care for each other. He also finds that Arno Paulsen is alive -- a man Borchert must kill for some reason.
Visually, the point of interest in this film is the utter ruin of Berlin; some shots show women engaged in the Augean task of shifting the rubble. The story, which turns out to be about war atrocities and the issue of whom should wield punishment is a telling one even yet. The performances are repressed in the face of such events.
Themovie premiered the day before the first war criminals were hanged at
Visually, the point of interest in this film is the utter ruin of Berlin; some shots show women engaged in the Augean task of shifting the rubble. The story, which turns out to be about war atrocities and the issue of whom should wield punishment is a telling one even yet. The performances are repressed in the face of such events.
Themovie premiered the day before the first war criminals were hanged at