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Marriage in the Shadows

Original title: Ehe im Schatten
  • 19471947
  • 1h 45m
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7.2/10
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Alfred Balthoff, Karl Hellmer, Claus Holm, Paul Klinger, Hans Leibelt, Kurt Maetzig, Willy Prager, Hans Schweikart, Ilse Steppat, Herbert Uhlich, Hilde von Stolz, and Wolfgang Zeller in Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
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    • Kurt Maetzig
    • Hans Schweikart(novel "Es wird schon nicht so schlimm")
    • Kurt Maetzig
  • Stars
    • Paul Klinger
    • Ilse Steppat
    • Alfred Balthoff
    • Kurt Maetzig
    • Hans Schweikart(novel "Es wird schon nicht so schlimm")
    • Kurt Maetzig
  • Stars
    • Paul Klinger
    • Ilse Steppat
    • Alfred Balthoff
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    • 3User reviews
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    Paul Klinger and Ilse Steppat in Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
    Alfred Balthoff and Ilse Steppat in Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
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    Paul Klinger and Ilse Steppat in Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
    Alfred Balthoff, Karl Hellmer, Claus Holm, Paul Klinger, Hans Leibelt, Kurt Maetzig, Willy Prager, Ilse Steppat, Herbert Uhlich, Hilde von Stolz, and Wolfgang Zeller in Marriage in the Shadows (1947)
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    Paul Klinger
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    • Hans Wieland
    Ilse Steppat
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    • Elisabeth Maurer
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    • Kurt Bernstein
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    • Dr. Herbert Blohm
    Willy Prager
    • Dr. Louis Silbermann
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    • Frau Hallwig
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    Gerda Mallwitz
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    Walter Werner
    • Herr Hofbauer
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    • Greta Koch
    Lilo Nowka
    • Dita Seiler
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    Knut Hartwig
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    Karl Hannemann
    • Gestapo-Mann
    Elly Burgmer
    • Tante Olga
    • (as Elli Burgmer)
      • Kurt Maetzig
      • Hans Schweikart(novel "Es wird schon nicht so schlimm")
      • Kurt Maetzig
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    • Trivia
      Based on the life of German actor Joachim Gottschalk, who committed suicide with his wife and nine-year-old son in 1941.
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    One of the great Holocaust films
    Brecht thought this was pure kitsch, but it is interesting that this melodrama, based on a true story, together with Jakubowska's The Last Stage (Ostani Etap 1948) were the first immediate post war filmic reactions to the suffering of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis and came from Communist East Europe. Sadly these are extremely difficult to get to see. There are of course elements of propaganda for the Russians as 'liberators' but only with the TV mini series 'Holocaust' and of course 'Schindler's List' did these issues very belatedly get addressed by Hollywood.
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      • June 11, 1948 (Austria)
      • Germany
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      • Berlin, Germany
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      • Deutsche Film (DEFA)
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    • 1 hour 45 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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