It was on 30 April 1945 that the Red Army occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker and the United Nations was being founded in San Francisco. Alexander Kluge covers this single historic day and unravels its passing hours across different theatres of Second World War, including the life of a small German town occupied by American forces and the story of two SS officers stranded on the forsaken Kerguelen Islands. The experiences Kluge paints here are jarring, poignant and imbued with meaning. Seventy years later, we can still see our own reflections in the upheaval of a single day in 1945.

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