The Murderers Are Among Us

The Murderers Are Among Us (UK)
Murderers Among Us (US)
Die Mörder sind unter uns (Germany)
German movie poster
Directed byWolfgang Staudte
Written byWolfgang Staudte
Produced byDEFA
StarringErnst Wilhelm Borchert
Hildegard Knef
Arno Paulsen
Erna Sellmer
CinematographyFriedl Behn-Grund
Eugen Klagemann
Edited byHans Heinrich
Music byErnst Roters
Release date
  • 15 October 1946 (1946-10-15)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Die Mörder sind unter uns, a German film known in English as Murderers Among Us in the United States or The Murderers Are Among Us in the United Kingdom was one of the first post-World War II German films[1] and the first Trümmerfilm. It was produced in 1945/46 in the Althoff Studios in Babelsberg and the Jofa-Ateliers in Johannisthal. The film was written and directed by Wolfgang Staudte.

  1. ^ Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler, Heide Fehrenbach, 1995, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-4512-4