In Those Days
| In Those Days | |
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| German | In jenen Tagen |
| Directed by | Helmut Käutner |
| Written by | Helmut Käutner Ernst Schnabel |
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| Cinematography | Igor Oberberg |
| Edited by | Wolfgang Wehrum |
| Music by | Bernhard Eichhorn |
Production company | Camera-Filmproduktion |
| Distributed by | Britischer Atlas-Filmverleih (British Zone) Prisma-Filmverleih (French & American Zones) Sovexport-Film GmbH (Soviet Zone) |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
In Those Days (
Nazi era
, using the device of a car built in 1933 and dismantled in 1947 narrating the various experiences of its owners in a series of seven separate episodes. The film's objective was to highlight the private resistance of various figures to the Nazis even while they publicly accepted the repression of Nazi society.
Production
The film was produced in
Nazis which led to him being perceived as possessing greater moral authority than many of his colleagues. Consequently, the film was seen as a standard-bearer for the values of the post-war German film industry.[1]
Reception
It was well received by the German public in 1947 who were generally receptive to its message. In the 1960s the film began to attract criticism for allegedly whitewashing ordinary Germans' acceptance of Nazi ideology. However, this criticism has in turn been challenged as being ahistorical and ignoring the conditions under which it was made - such as the constraints put on German film-makers by the Allied occupation powers and the resistance of contemporary German audiences to films that explicitly examined their possible collective guilt.
Cast
- Helmut Käutner as Voice of the Car
- Gert Karl Schaefer as Willi
- Erich Schellow as Karl
- Winnie Markus as Sybille
- Werner Hinz as Steffen
- Karl John as Peter Keyser
- Erich Weiher as Fitter
- Alice Treff as Elisabeth Buschenhagen
- Franz Schafheitlin as Wolfgang Buschenhagen
- Hans Nielsen as Wolfgang Grunelius
- Gisela Tantau as Angela Buschenhagen
- Ida Ehre as Sally Bienert
- Willy Maertens as Wilhelm Bienert
- Erica Balqué as Dorothea Wieland
- Eva Gotthardt as Ruth
- Hermann Schomberg as Dr. Ansbach
- Kurt Meister as Policeman
- Hermann Speelmans as August Hintze
- Fritz Wagner as Lieutenant
- Hans Mahnke as Niginski
- Isa Vermehren as Erna
- Margarete Haagen as Baronin von Thorn
- Franz Weber as Ein Polizist
- Erwin Geschonneck as Schmitt
- Carl Raddatz as Josef
- Bettina Moissi as Marie
References
- ^ a b Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2001. p. 22–23 & 51.
External links
- In Those Days at IMDb
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