Marriage in the Shadows

Original title: Ehe im Schatten

1947
1h 45m

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Alfred Balthoff, Karl Hellmer, Claus Holm, Paul Klinger, Hans Leibelt, Kurt Maetzig, Willy Prager, Hans Schweikart, Ilse Steppat, Herbert Uhlich, Hilde von Stolz, and Wolfgang Zeller in Marriage in the Shadows (1947)

In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, H... Read allIn Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.In Nazi Germany actor Hans refuses to divorce his Jewish wife Elisabeth. He is threatened to be drafted and sent to the front while she will be deported to a concentration camp. Desperate, Hans decides that suicide is their only way out.

Director
- Kurt Maetzig
Writers
- Hans Schweikart
- Kurt Maetzig
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7.2/10

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Director
- Kurt Maetzig
Writers
- Hans Schweikart
- Kurt Maetzig
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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10FredDavies

One of the great Holocaust films

Brecht thought this was pure kitsch, but it is interesting that this melodrama, based on a true story, together with Jakubowska's The Last Stage (Ostani Etap 1948) were the first immediate post war filmic reactions to the suffering of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis and came from Communist East Europe. Sadly these are extremely difficult to get to see. There are of course elements of propaganda for the Russians as 'liberators' but only with the TV mini series 'Holocaust' and of course 'Schindler's List' did these issues very belatedly get addressed by Hollywood.