In Those Days

In Those Days GermanIn jenen Tagen is a 1947 German drama film directed by Helmut Kutner and starring Gert Schfer, Erich Schellow and Winnie Markus. It was one of the cycle of Rubble films made in the wake of Germanys defeat during World War II. The film addresses issues of collective guilt during the 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 films objective was to highlight the private resistance of various figures to the Nazis even while they publicly accepted the repression of Nazi society.

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 filmmakers by the Allied occupation powers and the resistance of contemporary German audiences to films that explicitly examined their possible collective guilt.

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