Than anything in the world

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Movie
Original title Than anything in the world
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1941
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK none
Rod
Director Karl Ritter Assistant: Gottfried Ritter
script Felix Lützkendorf , Karl Ritter
production Karl Ritter ( Universum-Film AG Berlin )
music Herbert Windt
camera Günther Anders
cut Gottfried Ritter
occupation

About Everything in the World is a German feature film made in 1940/1941 by Karl Ritter , which was commissioned directly by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

It is a reserved film from the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation . It is part of the foundation's portfolio, has not been released for distribution and may only be shown with the consent and under the conditions of the foundation.

“… About everything in the world” is a quote from the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied .

action

The fate of Germans living abroad who are imprisoned after the outbreak of World War II is shown in various episodes . On the one hand, the German Fritz Möbius, who was employed in the Siemens factory and was arrested in Paris . The journalist Hans Wiegand, who is arrested at the border, as well as an entire Tyrolean folk music ensemble, which, despite the declaration of their director "we are not Germans, we are Tyroleans " , are kidnapped in London . The German tanker "Elmshorn" received an order on the high seas to call at a neutral port because of the outbreak of war. Since this fails, the crew sinks their own ship so that it does not fall into the hands of the enemy. The film is supplemented with representations of the German advance on land and in the air in the style of newsreels . The resistance of Germans living abroad in so-called " emigrant regions" is also discussed.

production

The film was produced by ( Universum-Film AG Berlin ) under the line-up of Karl Ritter and copied by Afifa Berlin . The recording manager was Georg Dahlström . The buildings come from Walter Röhrig . Gerhard Huttula was responsible for optical special effects and a trick camera. The shooting took place from May 3rd to September 1940 in the area around Berlin and Danzig as well as in Greifswald and in the area around the Großglockner . The film premiered on March 21, 1941 in the UFA-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.

reception

On April 4, 1941, the magazine Filmwelt describes it as "breathtakingly designed, no longer illustrative, but lively current affairs".

After the end of World War II, it was classified as a reserved film because of the National Socialist propaganda it contained . Since then, its public performance has only been possible to a limited extent. Today the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation claims the evaluation rights.

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