One of the first postwar productions, Film Without a Title takes place immediately after World War II. A director, a screenwriter and an actor—Willy Fritsch, playing himself—discuss making a new movie in Germany. Two “ordinary people”—Christine, a country girl, and Martin, a Berlin art dealer—insist that the film should be about their lives. Working during the Stunde Null or “Zero Hour” of German cinema, screenwriter Helmut Käutner (Under the Bridges) and director Rudolf Jugert break all the rules. They traverse a variety of genres—from romantic melodrama to war film to comedy to pseudo-documentary—to tell and retell the stories of Christine and Martin, reflecting the confusion and uncertainty of the postwar situation. Between desolate memories of the war years and bright hopes for everyday life, the filmmakers subvert narrative convention by allowing spectators to go “behind the scenes” and create their own film.