The Axe of Wandsbek

Original title: Das Beil von Wandsbek

1951
1h 50m

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7.1/10

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Käthe Braun, Erwin Geschonneck, Falk Harnack, Gefion Helmke, Willy A. Kleinau, and Arnold Zweig in The Axe of Wandsbek (1951)

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After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the perpetrators and turns to ... Read allAfter a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the perpetrators and turns to a butcher.After a crime is committed during the Nazi era in the Reeperbahn area of Hamburg, the aspiring local leader, a ship owner, needs to find an executioner to kill the perpetrators and turns to a butcher.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

198

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The long-forbidden film had problems with East German censors. It finally premiered, uncut, in West Germany and West Berlin on March 3, 1983 at the Arsenal Kino on the occasion of writer-producer-director Falk Harnack's 70th birthday as part of an eight film Harnack retrospective, some 30 years after its production.

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7/10

Surprisingly good

One often watches historical films, because they are historic. This one is actually interesting.

I kept thinking of the similarity to Fallada's Jeder stirbt fuer sich allein. In both stories, there are some committed nazis and a few brave heroes, but mostly just people getting by.