Berlin
Express is a postwar rubble movie filmed on location mainly
(despite the title) in postwar
Frankfurt am Main and includes a great
deal of footage of the wreckage in various parts of the city, as well as
of the Hauptbahnof and the IG Farben building. It was released in 1948 but
was probably filmed in 1947 and/or 1946; much of Frankfurt is still rubble.
This gallery contains 52 screenshots from the film. Interestingly, the
theme of the film is that the four Allied powers want to create a peaceful
and unified Germany after the occupation but the Nazi underground is
determined to prevent it by pitting the powers against each other so the
Third Reich can rise again. A low-resolution video of the IG Farben
sequence (1 minute, 51 seconds) can be seen
here (on Youtube,
for as long as the link lasts).