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Special Screening: Die Mörder sind unter uns

Followed by a panel discussion

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Wednesday,  14.01.2026
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19:00
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Delphi Filmpalast
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On the occasion of her 100th birthday – a tribute to Hildegard Knef. The first DEFA film shot after World War II and one of the 100 most important German films. With a new perspective: for the first time with a Nazi and a GDR historian. Followed by a discussion with Thomas Jost (manager of Hildegard Knef), Adam Kerpel-Fronius (historian, Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) and Dr. Jens Schöne (historian, deputy to the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship). Moderated by Antje Bernhardt (bernhardt-bildung). An event organized by the Ernst Reuter Archive Foundation in cooperation with the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and the Delphi Filmpalast.

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1945 in bombed-out Berlin: Former military surgeon Dr. Hans Mertens returns to Berlin after the war and finds his house in ruins. Suffering from war memories, he becomes an alcoholic and finds accommodation with photographer Susanne Wallner, a concentration camp survivor. When he encounters former captain Ferdinand Brückner, who had 36 men, 54 women, and 31 children from a Polish village shot in 1942, Mertens wants to get revenge. 
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