German Autumn '46
Director Gaumnitz Michael
Countries
Duration 76 min
Synopsis
Autumn, 1946. Germany is devastated. A young Swedish journalist named Stig Dagerman is hired to do a series of reports for the newspaper Expressen. For three months, he wanders through German cities which have been annihilated by the bombings, carefully observes the daily routines of a vanquished people, uncovers the “masquerade” of denazification trials. His eyes are wide open to the suffering of Germans struck dumb, their inability to confront the monstrosity of Nazism and he exposes the cynicism of the victors in the days following the air raids.
Autumn, 1946. Germany is devastated. A young Swedish journalist named Stig Dagerman is hired to do a series of reports for the newspaper Expressen. For three months, he wanders through German cities which have been annihilated by the bombings, carefully observes the daily routines of a vanquished people, uncovers the “masquerade” of denazification trials. His eyes are wide open to the suffering of Germans struck dumb, their inability to confront the monstrosity of Nazism and he exposes the cynicism of the victors in the days following the air raids.