Rubble film

Rubble film (German: Trümmerfilm) is a moving picture characterized by its use of location exteriors among the "rubble" of bombed-down Western and Eastern European cities to capture the gritty, depressing reality of the lives of the civilian survivors in the early post-World War II years. It reflected an aesthetic choice to show rather than hide the extensive damage, and broken lives, left by the war. Rubble films were mainly made by filmmakers in the rebuilding film industries of Eastern Europe, Italy and the former Nazi Germany.

No films were made in the immediate aftermath of the war, as result of the combination of the destruction or seizure of Germany's film studios; artistic uncertainty; limited interest in film viewing; and lack of appropriate cinema facilities to show them. This uncertainty was caused by Hitler's delegitimization of conventional filmmaking practices, which forced filmmakers to reinvent their filmography methods, and film content. It was not until Wolfgang Staudte released The Murderers Are Among Us in 1946 that German cinema began to further develop.

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