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Ehe im Schatten / Progress Film-Vertreib GMBH zeigt ; nach einer Novelle von Hans Schweikart ; Buch und Regie, Kurt Maetzig.
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Ehe im Schatten (Motion picture)
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Drama.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Intermarriage--Germany--Drama.
- Intermarriage.
- Interfaith marriage--Germany--Drama.
- Interfaith marriage.
- National socialism--Germany--Drama.
- National socialism.
- Actors--Germany--Drama.
- Actors.
- Schweikart, Hans, 1895-1975--Film adaptations.
- Schweikart, Hans.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Drama
- Feature films
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 38 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, black and white
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- English title: Marriage in the shadows
- Place of Publication:
- [Berlin] : Progress Film-Vertreib GMBH, 1947.
- Language Note:
- In German.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- Kurt Maetzig dedicated his debut film to telling the story of the acclaimed German theater couple, Meta Wolff and Joachim Gottschalk. The film spans a ten-year period starting in 1933. Celebrated German film and theater actor Hans Wieland marries the Jewish actress Elisabeth Maurer. As Nazi anti-Semitic policies increasingly infringe on their lives, they struggle to survive. Then Hans is given an ultimatum by a friend who has become a Nazi official: save himself by divorcing his wife. The first German feature film to explicitly address the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, Marriage in the Shadows called on Germans to accept collective responsibility for the crimes of the Third Reich. Stylistically the production--in which many former Ufa artists were involved--blends classic melodrama in the Ufa style with documentary glimpses into life in Berlin under the Nazis. Shown in all four sectors of occupied Berlin and across Germany, the initial release of the film reached 10 million viewers. It premiered in the US at the Little Met Theater in New York on September 16, 1948.
- Participant:
- Alfred Balthoff, Willy Prager, Ilse Steppat, Paul Klinger, Claus Holm, Hans Leibelt, Lothar Firmans, Karl Hellmer, Lotte Lieck, Gerda Malwitz, Walter Werner, Alfred Maack.
- Credits:
- Music, Wolfgang Zeller; editors, Alice and Hermann Ludwig.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.
- Won 1948 Bambi Awards, Film - National.
- Nominated 1948 Venice Film Festival, Grand International Award.
- Online resource; title from title frame (viewed March 24, 2026).
- OCLC:
- 964569795
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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