📽️ “The Murderers Are Among Us” (Die Mörder sind unter uns), dir. Wolfgang Staudte (DEFA, 1946), is streaming on Arte. Filmed in the rubble of early postwar Berlin, it represents an important attempt to come to terms with Germany’s immediate past and to see a way through the present.

Film still: The faces of actors Hildegard Knef and Wilhelm Borchert looking outside through the broken glass of the apartment they share in the film.

Hildegard Knef and Wilhelm Borchert