Marriage in the Shadows

Drama/Book adaptation, Germany 1947

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Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career, Elisabeth, who is Jewish, ignores the advice of a colleague to leave Germany in the face of increasing anti-Semitism. Believing that he can protect her if she becomes his wife, Hans convinces Elisabeth to marry him. In the following years, as Hans's career thrives, Elisabeth awaits the end of the Nazi terror which bars her from public life. When the situation worsens in 1938 with the Kristallnacht pogrom, Elisabeth decides to leave the country, but Hans, who still believes he can protect her, convinces her to stay with him.
99 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
German
Subtitles:
English

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Director:

Kurt Maetzig

Writer:

Kurt Maetzig

Template:

Hans Schweikart (Novel)

Composer:

Wolfgang Zeller

Producer:

Georg Kiaup

Cast:

Paul Klinger (Hans Wieland)

Ilse Steppat (Elisabeth)

Alfred Balthoff (Kurt Bernstein)

Claus Holm (Dr. Herbert Blohm)

Willy Prager (Dr. Louis Silbermann)

Hans Leibelt (Fehrenbach)

Karl Hellmer (Gallenkamp)

Original title:

Ehe im Schatten

Original language:

German

Format:

4:3 HD, B/W

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

German

Subtitles:

English