Analysis of the German Film Das Wunder von Bern from the Perspective of Cultural Memory

The theory of cultural memory has gradually formed a boom since the 20s of the 20th century, and the theory has continuously matured and developed with the deepening of research by famous scholars such as Jan Assman and Astrite El. The German film “Das Wunder von Bern” was filmed in 2003 while recreating the “Bern Miracle” of Germany’s victory in the 1954 World Cup. It describes the story of a family of former Nazi soldiers, showing the memory of the German people after World War II, including not only the painful memory of his father, Richard Rubinsky, in the prisoner of war camp, but also the memory of the three brothers and sisters’ abhorrence of Nazi crimes and the memory of German fans who regarded the defeat as a shame. Through the research method of rising from individual memory to collective memory, the different modes of cultural memory in the film “Das Wunder von Bern” are discussed, and the embodiment of the purpose and development of cultural memory in the film is analyzed, and finally, a deeper understanding of the film is obtained, and the understanding of cultural memory theory is deepened. The analysis of the film “Das Wunder von Bern” is not only of literary and academic significance, but also of great practical significance.