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The Murderers Are Among Us

Die Mörder sind unter uns

1946
Germany
feature film - Drama
85 min. (2475 m.)
Location & Studio shooting / Berlin story line

short description

A surgeon returning after the war, lives with a holocaust survivor in bonbed out Berlin and plans the murder of his former captain.

Cast

Actor/-ess: Hildegard Knef (Susanne Wallner); Ernst Wilhelm Borchert (Dr. Mertens); Erna Sellmer (Frau Brückner); Hilde Adolphi (Daisy); Marlise Ludwig (Sonja); Ursula Krieg (Carola Schulz); Arno Paulsen (Ferdinand Brückner); Elly Burgmer (Mutter des kranken Kindes); Robert Forsch (Mondschein); Albert Johannes (Bartholomäus); Wolfgang Dohnberg (Fritz Knochenhauer); Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur (Arzt); Christian Blackwood (Sohn Otto Brückner); Michael Günther (Kind Herbert); Wanda Peters (Krankenschwester); Käte Jöken-König (Kundin); Christiane Hanson (Dienstmädchen)

Direction

Director: Wolfgang Staudte

Assistant director: Hans Heinrich

Writing

Screenplay: Wolfgang Staudte

Screenplay contributor: Eberhard Keindorff (uncredited); Johanna Sibelius (uncredited); Fritz Staudte (uncredited)

Idea: Wolfgang Staudte

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Friedl Behn-Grund; Eugen Klagemann

Assistant camera / focus puller: Rudolf Müller

Still photographer: Eberhard Klagemann

Decor

Production design: Otto Hunte; Bruno Monden; Alfred Schulz (uncredited)

Property master: Max Klar

Stand-by props: Fritz Pfotenhauer

Make-up artist: Friedrich Havenstein; Otto Fustrück

Costume design: Gertrud Recke

Wardrobe: Max Bransky; Anna Pfeifer

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Hans Heinrich

Sound: Klaus Jungk

Music

Music: Ernst Roters

Production

Unit production manager: Herbert Uhlich

Location manager: Willy Herrmann; Max Sablotzki

Production assistant: Adolf Fischer

Companies

Production company: Deutsche Film A.G. (DEFA) (Herstellungsgruppe Herbert Uhlich)