Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
DVDRip | MKV | 716 x 576 | AVC @ 1800 Kbps | 99 min | 1.48 Gb
Audio: German AC3 1.0 @ 320 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded) + (.srt)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance | Germany
DVDRip | MKV | 716 x 576 | AVC @ 1800 Kbps | 99 min | 1.48 Gb
Audio: German AC3 1.0 @ 320 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded) + (.srt)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance | Germany
"Under the Bridges", made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic genius can flourish even under the most difficult circumstances. The film completely transcends its time and presents a simple love story, the themes of which are universal. Through both his settings and his actors, Kautner achieves a naturalism which has seldom been equaled. That he managed to do this in 1944-45 Germany is almost unbelievable. A fortunate and unexpected treasure from a most unfortunate time.
IMDB 7.7/10 from 397 users
Director: Helmut Käutner
Writer: Leo de Laforgue (manuscript), Helmut Käutner, Walter Ulbrich
Actors: Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth, Margarete Haagen
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 99 min
Review:
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 Brücken" became the most beautiful love-story in german cinema (apart from Ophüls' "Liebelei" of course) without any trace of propaganda. The acting of Hannelore Schroth is wonderfully natural even today and the cinematography reminds me 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.
(Wasser@imdb)
"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 Käutner 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. People often wonder, how is it possible that Käutner managed to create his films which are seemingly totally free of any kind of propaganda or references to the war and destruction around him during the time when propaganda was becoming the only remaining weaponry. But I don't think that's quite true: if Under the Bridges were made in a period of peace, it would totally lack the mesmerizing feeling that is attached to this film as we view in proper context. Suddenly it becomes amazingly human, allowing us to realize that even as most of the people in Germany must have thought they were facing total destruction and annihilation literally any day soon, they still kept living and loving and at some point the inner world must have eclipsed the world outside, were death was running amok. Being of the generation that hasn't seen war, I can only imagine how intense one's love or loneliness can grow in the world where there seems to be no tomorrow.
Whatever the story or the genre, Käutner manages to find aspects that make it interesting and wake a lot of human compassion. His storage of empathy and his skills to share it are bottomless. He truly was a great maker of great films about little people.
(Sander@imdb)"
Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
Unter den Brücken / Under the Bridges (1946)
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