Munchen 1945 / Between Yesterday and Tomorrow - 2-DVD Set ( München 1945 / Zwischen gestern und morgen ) ( Munchen Nineteen Hundred Forty Five )

Munchen 1945 / Between Yesterday and Tomorrow - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: München 1945 / Zwischen gestern und morgen
Alternate Title: Munchen Nineteen Hundred Forty Five
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
191 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1947 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Harald Braun

Written By:
Harald Braun
Jacob Geis

Actors:
Hildegard Knef ..... Das Mädchen Kat
Winnie Markus ..... Annette Rodenwald
Sybille Schmitz ..... Nelly Dreifuss
Willy Birgel ..... Alexander Corty
Viktor de Kowa ..... Michael Rott
Viktor Staal ..... Rolf Ebeling
Carsta Löck ..... Frau Gertie
Adolf Gondrell ..... Dr. Weber
Walter Kiaulehn ..... Intendant Kesser
Erich Ponto ..... Professor von Walther
Erhard Siedel ..... Herr Hummel
Otto Wernicke ..... Ministerialdirektor Trunk
Alfons Kiechle
Rudolf Vogel
Axel Scholtz

Synopsis:

The 2-disc DVD presents newly restored footage (Munchen 1945) which was shot in Munich just a few weeks after it was taken by the American troops on April 30, 1945. We see the enormous damage of the bombings which destroyed about 90% of the center of the city. Harald Braun's Zwischen gestern und morgen (Between Yesterday and Tomorrow) was the first post-war film shot in Munich. Love, betrayal and tragedy occur one night in a luxury hotel. Years later the protagonists are united again and face a decade of regrets, hate and unanswered questions caused by the war. Their lives are in ruins, just like the bombed hotel. The film features many former UFA stars, as well as Hildegard Knef who became the first new star of the German post-war cinema.

Munchen 1945 (1945)
On the 30th of April, 1945, American troops marched into Munich. One week later, on the 8th of May, came the unconditional surrender of the German Reich under Admiral Dönitz. Munich was one of the cities that had suffered the greatest devastation. 90% of the inner city lay in ruins, it had lost 22,346 soldiers in battle, 6,632 people to bombings, and the injured and homeless came to, respectively, 15,000 and 30,000. Though most movie houses had been either destroyed or damaged, screenings had still taken place in 15 Munich cinemas at the end of April. Likewise intact was the premises of Bavaria-Film at Geiselgasteig, where work had still proceeded into spring 1945 on productions such as Erich Engel's Emil Jannings comedy WO IST HER BELLING?, the Theo Lingen films PHILINE and LIEBESHEIRAT and Robert A. Stemmle's GELD INS HAUS, with Hans Moser all films that had not been completed by the end of the war.

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947)
Braun and Geis had both already been active in film production during the Third Reich, but without participating in any incriminating propaganda films. In April, 1947, in the ruins of the Regina-Palast Hotel and at the Munich-Geiselgasteig studios, shooting begins on the first feature film in the American zone, ZWISCHEN GESTERN UND MORGEN, for which a whole corps of old UFA stars is obtained. Also on hand is Hildegard Knef, who had played supporting roles for UFA in the last months of the war and had already appeared in the first German post-war feature in the Soviet occupation zone, DIE MÖRDER SIND UNTER UNS (1946). The WELT IM FILM newsreel features the filming in an item entitled 'Shooting begins in Geiselgasteig' in its edition no. 102 (9th of May, 1946). In the Münchner Merkur, Hans Helmut Kirst reports on the festive premiere of the 11th of April, 1947: 'Yesterday evening the first German film of the U.S. Zone had its premiere in the Luitpold-Theater. The Governor of Bavaria, Mr. Wagoner, and representatives of the military government, the ministries and the Munich Municipality were present. Speeches were made by Mr. Rogers, Chief of the Film, Theater and Music Branch, Secretary Sattler and Lord Mayor Dr. Scharnagel. After the well-received film Winnie Markus, Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Adolf Gondrell and Walter Kiaulehn appeared before the audience.'

München 1945 - Germany 1945 - Directed, written and produced by: Willi Cronauer - Photographed by: Bartl Seyr, Kurt Grigoleit - Premiere of the restored version: July 22, 2010 (Filmmuseum München)

Zwischen gestern und morgen - Germany 1947 - Directed by: Harald Braun - Written by: Harald Braun, Herbert Witt, Jacob Geis - Cinematography by: Günther Anders - Music by: Werner Eisbrenner - Cast: Willy Birgel, Winnie Markus, Hildegard Knef, Sibylle Schmitz, Viktor de Kowa, Viktor Staal, Carsta Löck, Erich Ponto - Produced by: Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft, München - Premiere: December 11, 1947 (Luitpold-Theater München)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 June, 2011.

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