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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/In_Those_Days > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/In_Those_Days.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Those_Days > Source revision: 1355507110 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1947 film directed by Helmut Käutner In Those Days German film Poster German In jenen Tagen Directed by Helmut Käutner Written by Helmut Käutner Ernst Schnabel Starring Gert Schäfer Erich Schellow Winnie Markus Werner Hinz Cinematography Igor Oberberg Edited by Wolfgang Wehrum Music by Bernhard Eichhorn Production company Camera-Filmproduktion Distributed by Britischer Atlas-Filmverleih (British Zone) Prisma-Filmverleih (French & American Zones) Sovexport-Film GmbH (Soviet Zone) Release date 13 June 1947 (1947-06-13) Running time 111 minutes Country Germany Language German ***In Those Days*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***In jenen Tagen***) is a 1947 [German](/source/Cinema_of_Germany) [drama film](/source/Drama_(film_and_television)) directed by [Helmut Käutner](/source/Helmut_K%C3%A4utner) and starring Gert Schäfer, [Erich Schellow](/source/Erich_Schellow) and [Winnie Markus](/source/Winnie_Markus). It was one of the cycle of [Rubble films](/source/Rubble_films) made in the wake of Germany's defeat during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). The film addresses issues of [collective guilt](/source/Collective_guilt) during the [Nazi era](/source/Nazi_era), using the device of a car built in 1933 and dismantled in 1947 narrating the various experiences of its owners in a series of seven separate episodes. The film's objective was to highlight the private resistance of various figures to the Nazis even while they publicly accepted the repression of Nazi society. ## Plot This article needs a plot summary. Please add one in your own words. (October 2025) ## Cast - [Helmut Käutner](/source/Helmut_K%C3%A4utner) as Voice of the Car - Gert Karl Schaefer as Willi - [Erich Schellow](/source/Erich_Schellow) as Karl - [Winnie Markus](/source/Winnie_Markus) as Sybille - [Werner Hinz](/source/Werner_Hinz) as Steffen - [Karl John](/source/Karl_John_(actor)) as Peter Keyser - Erich Weiher as Fitter - [Alice Treff](/source/Alice_Treff) as Elisabeth Buschenhagen - [Franz Schafheitlin](/source/Franz_Schafheitlin) as Wolfgang Buschenhagen - [Hans Nielsen](/source/Hans_Nielsen_(actor)) as Wolfgang Grunelius - Gisela Tantau as Angela Buschenhagen - [Ida Ehre](/source/Ida_Ehre) as Sally Bienert - [Willy Maertens](/source/Willy_Maertens) as Wilhelm Bienert - Erica Balqué as Dorothea Wieland - Eva Gotthardt as Ruth - [Hermann Schomberg](/source/Hermann_Schomberg) as Dr. Ansbach - Kurt Meister as Policeman - [Hermann Speelmans](/source/Hermann_Speelmans) as August Hintze - [Fritz Wagner](/source/Fritz_Wagner_(actor)) as Lieutenant - Hans Mahnke as Niginski - [Isa Vermehren](/source/Isa_Vermehren) as Erna - [Margarete Haagen](/source/Margarete_Haagen) as Baronin von Thorn - [Franz Weber](/source/Franz_Weber_(actor)) as Ein Polizist - [Erwin Geschonneck](/source/Erwin_Geschonneck) as Schmitt - [Carl Raddatz](/source/Carl_Raddatz) as Josef - [Bettina Moissi](/source/Bettina_Moissi) as Marie ## Production The film was produced in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg) in the [British Zone](/source/British_Zone) as part of a growing post-war trend in western Germany of moving film production away from its traditional centre of [Berlin](/source/Berlin). The film was made under extremely difficult conditions including a lack of raw [film stock](/source/Film_stock) and hunger amongst the cast and technicians.[1] The director, Helmut Käutner, had several of his earlier films banned by the [Nazis](/source/Nazis) which led to him being perceived as possessing greater [moral authority](/source/Moral_authority) than many of his colleagues. Consequently, the film was seen as a standard-bearer for the values of the post-war German film industry.[1] ## Reception It was well received by the German public in 1947 who were generally receptive to its message. In the 1960s the film began to attract criticism for allegedly whitewashing ordinary Germans' acceptance of Nazi ideology. However, this criticism has in turn been challenged as being ahistorical and ignoring the conditions under which it was made - such as the constraints put on German film-makers by the Allied occupation powers and the aversion of contemporary German audiences to films that explicitly examined their possible collective guilt. ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-TUP_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-TUP_1-1) Shandley, Robert R. *Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich*. [Temple University Press](/source/Temple_University_Press), 2001. p. 22–23 & 51. ## External links - [*In Those Days*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039490/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Helmut Käutner Kitty and the World Conference (1939) Clothes Make the Man (1940) Woman Made to Measure (1940) We Make Music (1942) Anuschka (1942) Romance in a Minor Key (1943) Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944) Under the Bridges (1946) In Those Days (1947) The Original Sin (1948) Royal Children (1950) White Shadows (1951) Captain Bay-Bay (1953) The Last Bridge (1954) Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954) Ludwig II (1955) The Devil's General (1955) Sky Without Stars (1955) The Girl from Flanders (1956) The Captain from Köpenick (1956) Love from Paris (1957) The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Goose of Sedan (1959) A Glass of Water (1960) Black Gravel (1961) The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961) Redhead (1962) The House in Montevideo (1963) Tales of a Young Scamp (1964) Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970) Authority control databases International VIAF GND Other IdRef This article related to a German film of the 1940s is a stub. 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