1946 film
Somewhere in Berlin (German: Irgendwo in Berlin) is a film produced in the Soviet occupation zone of Allied-occupied Germany, the area that later became East Germany. It was released in 1946, and was the third DEFA film. It sold 4,179,651 tickets.[1] It was part of the group of rubble films made in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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Plot
A group of children play in the ruins of Berlin after World War II. One boy's father comes home from a POW camp. The boy is saddened to see his father as a hopeless, powerless man, but the children eventually give the father fresh hope by persuading him to clean up his badly bomb-damaged garage business.
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Bibliography
- Shandley, Robert. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2010.
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