“The Aftermath” (2019) — Unforeseen Consequences
Hamburg is in ruins five months after Germany surrenders in 1946. The Aftermath opens with scenes of German residents starving and displaced in bombed-out neighborhoods. Now, they must face Brits and Americans bossing them around their native land, requisitioning their most luxurious homes for their own use during the occupation. Some Germans are so resentful they’re still willing to die defiantly in the name of Hitler.
We don’t often see a film centered on the immediate aftermath of World War II from a German perspective. Yet The Aftermath is not...