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Duitsland
Drama / Romantiek
92 minuten

geregisseerd door Helmut Käutner
met Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz en Gustav Knuth

Hendrik en Willy zijn de gemeenschappelijke eigenaars van een sleepboot waarmee ze de rivieren tot in Nederland afvaren. Als Anna in het leven van de mannen treedt en beiden verliefd worden maken de vrienden een afspraak: degene die Anna's hart verovert moet de boot verlaten.

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This can be considered one of the very last films to be made in Nazi Germany - it passed the censorship in March 1945, but for obvious reasons didn't make it to the cinemas as the street battles were about to commence in Berlin in a few weeks. It's true that at least three new movies had their opening nights in Berlin as late as in March 1945, and reportedly two in April, which seems quite unbelievable.

In most of his films Helmut Kautner succeeds in creating a world of his own, a sort of microcosm that holds only the people that we see on the screen. He did also excel in historical costume epics, but his forte was a simple, intimate film about what goes on in the soul.

This film was made in the last months of WWII. Because of the allied bombers flying over the set on their way to Berlin and because of the destruction of many locations shooting often had to be stopped and was resumed later when the alarm was over.

And yet "Unter den Brucken" became the most beautiful love-story in german cinema (apart from Ophuls' "Liebelei" of course) without any trace of propaganda. The acting of Hannelore Schroth is wonderfully natural even today and the cinematography reminds of Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" and Charles Laughton's "The Night Of The Hunter". This movie stands out as a real miracle and as a singular event in UFA history.



Format: PAL

DVD Size: 7.38 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 96 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): German DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English



DISC FEATURES:

# Biographies.
# Production datas.
# Picture gallery.
# Bonus feature: Knef - the early years.

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