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Defeated People, A (1946)
 

Courtesy of Imperial War Museum

Main image of Defeated People, A (1946)
 
35mm, black and white, 18 mins
 
DirectorHumphrey Jennings
Production CompanyCrown Film Unit
ProducerBasil Wright
PhotographyArmy Film Unit
MusicGuy Warrack
CommentaryWilliam Hartnell
 
From the Imperial War Museum Loan Collection

A portrait of Germany in the immediate postwar period, as its people struggle to come to terms with both their defeat and the destruction of their country's infrastructure.

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A film directed by Humphrey Jennings about the government of the British-occupied zone of Germany. Various aspects of the knotty problem of physical and moral rehabilitation of Germany and the German people are touched upon. There are the immense difficulties of war damage and of Displaced Persons, of transporting coal to the parts where it is most needed, of setting up adequate courts of justice, of coping with ration and health difficulties, above all of educating and re-educating the Germans to new and better ideals.

IWM Film and Video Archive Loans Catalogue (2000)

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SEE ALSO
Naples is a Battlefield (1944)
Trained to Serve (1948)
Way From Germany, The (1946)
Hartnell, William (1908-1975)
Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950)
Wright, Basil (1907-1987)
Crown Film Unit