“The summer of 1945 was nature’s gift to us,” said actor Günter Lamprecht, remembering the first few months of peace after the war. “It was beautiful, a perfect summer.”
Lamprecht, who was a 15-year-old student at the time, said he felt that the bright weeks between June and August of 1945 were “heaven’s compensation for what I had gone through, for all the nonsensical deaths of the last few years.
”This mood in Berlin, the capital city of the former Reich, which was almost completely destroyed by Western and Soviet air strikes, is reflected in the film. Producer Konstantin von zur Mühlen, who later discovered the film, digitally remastered it in high definition.
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