Seventeen minutes that will wreck your timeline of how we rebuilt the rubble.
Editing
Before/during/after structure hits like a gut punch.
Direction
Groschopp refuses to let you look away from devastation.
Director
Richard Groschopp
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA studio's first post-war productions had to thread impossible needles: documenting Nazi destruction without Allied blame, showing German suffering without victimhood.
Groschopp shot this while Dresden was still actively clearing bodies; the 'reconstruction' footage captures actual Trümmerfrauen hauling bricks by hand.
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