Marriage in the Shadows

Marriage in the Shadows

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 3, 1947

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Drama

User Score

71%

Original Title

Ehe im Schatten

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Kurt Maetzig

Description

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.