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Cinema in the rubble: movies made in the ruins of postwar Germany

Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich are among the actors and directors who went to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, to film stories amid the rubble of a country in ruins.

By Matthew Thrift

Cinema in the rubble: movies made in the ruins of postwar Germany
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