Año 1946, Alemania después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) llega a Hamburgo para reunirse con su esposo, Lewis (Jason Clarke). La ciudad está en ruinas destruida por los embates de la guerra y es pleno invierno, el frio se deja sentir hasta los huesos. El coronel británico recibe la misión de reconstruir la destruida ciudad. Al mudarse a su nueva casa, Lewis toma una inusual decisión: compartirán esta gran casa con sus antiguos propietarios, a los que se les había requisado su propiedad. Ellos son Stephen Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård), un viudo alemán y su atormentada hija. En esta atmósfera cargada de rencor, odio y venganza, la hostilidad y el dolor dan paso a la ardiente pasión y la traición.
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Es la historia real de Hans en tres momentos (1945, 1957 y 1969) de su relación con Viktor, un asesino convicto: un amor carcelario, propiciado por las entradas y salidas de prisión de Hans a causa de la represión a la que fueron sometidas las personas homosexuales en la Alemania democrática de posguerra.
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
Un introvertido niño checo de 9 años, superviviente del campo de concentración de Auschwitz, huye de un campo de refugiados en la Alemania de la postguerra, tratando de buscar a su madre. El chico es encontrado por un soldado americano que tratará de ayudar al niño a encontrarla... Film en tono semi-documental que supuso el debut del gran Montgomery Clift.
In melodramatic fashion, the film tells the tale of a young German woman who finds herself alone in the world when the rest of her family is killed in a WWII air raid. Helping an American military man escape the Gestapo, she finds herself on the run from the Russian Army. Escaping to the American (and safe) side of Berlin, she registers herself as a prostitute (unknowingly) and finds herself caught between the German officer who thinks she is for sale and the American officer who she saved and is now in love with her.
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
Con objeto de hacerse con un depósito de oro escondido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, unos aventureros implicados en el caso deciden liberar de una prisión de máxima seguridad al criminal de guerra que conoce el paradero del tesoro.
Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.
Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train station. As he falls in love with an agricultural worker and starts comitting thefts, his fragile psyche seems to fall more and more out of balance.
Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Included are scenes of World War II destruction that lingered at the time.
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world’s most visible symbol of hardline Communism and Cold War lore. They thought they were making a documentary on the community of tourists, soldiers, and West Berliners who lived in the seemingly eternal presence of the graffiti emblazoned eyesore. But in 1989, as the original film neared completion, the Wall came down, and McElwee and Levine returned to Berlin, this time to capture the radically different atmosphere of the reunified city.