{"product_id":"wrack-and-ruin-the-rubble-film-at-defa-masters-of-cinema-limited-edition-three-disc-blu-ray-september-2025","title":"WRACK AND RUIN: THE RUBBLE FILM AT DEFA (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Three-disc Blu-ray","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eFive groundbreaking postwar films from East Germany’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEFA studio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEureka Entertainment to release \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWRACK AND RUIN: THE RUBBLE FILM AT \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEFA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efive groundbreaking postwar films from East Germany’s DEFA studio.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePresented on Blu-ray for the first time ever in the UK from 2K scans of the original negatives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable from 15 September 2025 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eas part of The Masters of Cinema Series, in a Limited edition of 2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e000 copies exclusively featuring a hardbound slipcase and collector’s book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first film studio to begin operating in post-war Germany, \u003cstrong\u003eDEFA \u003c\/strong\u003ewas officially authorised to begin making films in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946. Overseen by the Soviet Military Administration, one of its primary mandates was to aid in the denazification of Germany by focusing on anti-fascist themes in films that would ruminate on the literal and figurative wreckage left behind by the Third Reich. Often shot on location in the ruins of Berlin, these early DEFA productions have come to be called \u003cem\u003eTrümmerfilme \u003c\/em\u003eor “rubble films,” and remain some of the most important pictures the studio ever made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first film produced in post-war Germany, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Murderers Are Among Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003esees a concentration camp survivor return home to Berlin only to find a stranger living in her apartment: an ex-soldier who harbours a terrible secret. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomewhere in Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003efollows a group of children who spend their days playing in bombed-out buildings and a returning prisoner-of-war seeking a new sense of purpose. In \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolice Raid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, a determined detective leads a crackdown on black marketeers who aim to exploit the chaos of the post-war period to their own advantage. Set during the Nazi era, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarriage in the Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003echarts the tragic life of an actor and his Jewish wife as they attempt to survive the Third Reich. Finally, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Blum Affair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003erecounts the true case of a Jewish industrialist who was tried for murder in the 1920s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEncompassing a range of genres – including the thriller, the police procedural and the courtroom drama – and ranging in visual style from expressionism to stark realism, DEFA’s rubble films are bound together by a concern with the physical and psychological damage wrought by Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. 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