Crew Dora

Movie
Original title	Crew Dora
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1943
length	95 minutes
Age rating	FSK none
Rod
Director	Karl Ritter
script	Karl Ritter ; Fred Hildenbrandt
music	Herbert Windt
camera	Heinz Ritter ; Theodor Nischwitz
cut	Gottfried Ritter
occupation
	Hannes Stelzer : Lieutenant Joachim Krane, pilot; Josef Dahmen : Sergeant Otto Roggenkamp, radio operator; Georg Thomalla : NCO Fritz Mott, gunner; Ernst von Klipstein : Captain Kurt Gillhausen, Squadron Captain; Clemens Hasse : Lieutenant Erich Krumbhaar, pilot; Suse Graf : Dr. med. Marianne Güldener, physiotherapist; Charlott Daudert : Mathilde Kruschke, called "Cora Corona", milliner; Carsta Löck : Betty Schütte, tram conductor; Roma Bahn : Miss Bornschlegel, laboratory assistant; Otz Tollen : First Lieutenant; Wolfgang Preiss : Dr. Wagner, ; medical officer of the reserve; Helmut Schabrich : First Lieutenant Semmler; Hubert Kiurina : Lieutenant Franz von Borcke, observer; Ewald Wenck : Waiter in the restaurant;

Crew Dora is a Nazi propaganda film by Karl Ritter from 1943 about an air crew in World War II .

Today 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.

action

The war propaganda film “Occupation Dora” tells of the life and goings-on of a long-range reconnaissance squadron in the west, east and Africa; two lieutenants and two NCOs make up the Dora crew, and it almost looks as if the comradeship is about to be broken by all sorts of strange incidents. But the serious war experience welds everyone together again. Scenes from the Russian and North African front are mixed with home episodes in which the right couples only find each other after all sorts of entanglements.

Production and reception

The film was produced by Universum-Film AG (Berlin) and shot between August 1942 and the beginning of 1943 at locations around Berlin, the western and eastern fronts and in Ostia in Italy . Originally, it was planned to shoot outside in the desert of North Africa . These were moved to Ostia after the German troops had long since had to withdraw from Africa . Ritter had the film rewritten and edited, and the censors were constantly presented with new versions of "Dora the Crew".

The film was banned by the censors in November 1943. The film speaks of settlement in the east in two places, but the 6th Army in Stalingrad had to capitulate at the beginning of February 1943 . Furthermore, the rescue by Italian airmen after Mussolini's capture on July 25, 1943, must have seemed strange.

The film was allegedly shown with the approval of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on February 2, 1945 as part of a closed event in front of flight instructors of the Air Force in Brandenburg-Briest as a supplement to a lecture given by Karl Ritter.

After the end of World War II , the performance was also banned by the high command of the victorious Allied powers . Today the exploitation rights are held by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung , which only allows this film to be shown in the context of special educational events.

Erwin Leiser names the film as a typical example of the kind of Karl Ritter films that are aimed at all sections of the population, although the social hierarchy is adhered to: “Beauty, love and heroism” are the “higher classes reserved for society ”, while the“ little people, […] simple souls, […] look up to their superiors and know exactly where their place is ”; In these films, “one should never laugh at the expense of a master man ”. Furthermore, Leiser names the film as an example of the National Socialist film policy of showing the aerial warfare "only from the perspective of the avid aviator".

literature

William Gillespie: The Making of The Crew of the Dora “(Dora Crew)” . German Films Dot Net Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9808612-3-5 .
Wolfgang Jacobsen: Knight, Karl Hermann Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 666-668 ( digitized version ).
William Gillespie: Karl Ritter: His Life and 'Zeitfilms' under National Socialism (Chapter 5 The Fate of Air Crew Dora) . German Films Dot Net, Potts Point, New South Wales 2014, ISBN 978-0-9808612-2-8 .
Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien: Nazi Cinema As Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Rochester 2006, ISBN 1-57113-334-8 .
"This is where the German person speaks" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1992, pp. 156 ff . ( online ).

Web links

The Crew of the Dora in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Crew Dora at filmportal.de
Crew Dora at Murnau Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ "This is where the German man speaks" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1992, pp. 166 ( online ).
^ Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien: Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich, Boydell & Brewer Rochester 2006, ISBN 1-57113-334-8 , p. 151.
↑ Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 55 f.
↑ Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 60.

[1] "This is where the German man speaks" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1992, pp. 166 ( online ).

[2] Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien: Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich, Boydell & Brewer Rochester 2006, ISBN 1-57113-334-8 , p. 151.

[3] Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 55 f.

[4] Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 60.