Question: Build a movie plot around this: Who stops Merton from killing Ferdinand bruckner? Susanne
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In 1945 after the surrender of Germany to the Allied forces, Berlin lies in ruins. A man walks through the ruins and watches children playing in the rubble of the once great city. The man is Doctor Hans Mertens who is returning from the war only to find his home destroyed like the rest of the city.Meanwhile, a train arrives in the destroyed Berlin Central Station carrying a number of civilians. Among them is Susanne Wallner who also has returned to her home in Berlin after having spent the majority of the war in a concentration camp.Hans returns to his apartment, walking past the neighbors who complain about his habitual drunkenness.The lady enters a glasses repair shop owned by an elderly man, Herr Mondschein. The two apparently know one another and she relays her story about how she was taken into a concentration camp in 1942 and has not been home since. Its difficult to forget the past, she says, but she is determined to start anew. Herr Mondschein warns her than someone is living in her apartment.That someone is, in fact, Hans who has settled into Susannes old apartment, which is dirty with rubble and debris. She knocks on the door and explains to him that she is the former tenant, to which Hans replies that he is the current tenant and that her former contract no longer holds any value. Nevertheless, she moves back in to the apartment and offers to let Hans stay for a while as his roommate until he can find another place. She mentions to him that she hopes they get along.Meanwhile, Hans goes out to the cabaret and once again becomes very drunk. Still in an intoxicated state, he plays chess with one of the women in the cabaret and vents his frustration on the people there.Hans walks through the ruins and visits Herr Mondscheins store. He tells hans that he is waiting for his son, who has not yet returned from the war.Back in the apartment, Susanne is cleaning up the rubble. Hans returns and the two share a conversation about Hans old profession. He tells her that he was a doctor who also cannot stand the...