Preceded by: German newsreel, December 1944-January 1945 (Panorama #4). The last of a short line of Agfacolor newsreels made for "our friends abroad and neutral countries" and completed shortly before the end of the war. (15.5 mins, Color) (Unter den Brücken). Under the Bridges belongs to a number of transitional endeavors, so-called "carryovers" (Überläufer) which, though produced during the Third Reich, were not premiered until after the war. Its narrative recalls Jean Vigo's L'Atalante just as its style brings to mind the poetic realism of Renoir's Boudu and Toni. A romantic triangle unfolds on a small boat that wends its way up and down the Havel near Berlin. Helmut Käutner took leave from the artifice of studios and shot on location while bombs continued to fall on the Reich. His film also took leave of Ufa production values and departed from the Nazi era's script-bound predilections, rediscovering the wonder of haptic immediacy and physical reality and, in that way, intimating new directions for a postwar German cinema.-E.R.