Lightning girls to the front

Movie
Original title	Lightning girls to the front
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1958
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Werner Klingler
script	Hans Hellmut Kirst Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
production	Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
music	Horst Dempwolff
camera	Erich Claunigk
cut	Klaus M. Eckstein
occupation
Eva-Ingeborg Scholz : Hanna Helmke, senior leader As news helpers: Antje Geerk : Karin Mertens Edith Elmay : Diana Schramm Nana East : Renate Gontard Uta Hallant : Monika Fink Claudia Gerstäcker : Elfriede Bartsch Christiane Nielsen : Margarethe Sanden Elisabeth Terval : Barbara Jensen Ruth Müller : Erika Hinz Horst Frank : Gaston, a French Bert Fortell : Corporal Peter Fischer Klausjürgen Wussow : First Lieutenant Wagner Robert Meyn : General of the Aviators Hermann Nehlsen : Dr. Graumann, meteorologist Werner Peters : Medical officer in the military district command Emmerich Schrenk : Leader of the Rifle Division (SD) Johannes Grossmann : Captain von Falckenstein, night fighter Peter Gerhard : Major Köhler, commander of the news center Armin Dahlen : Captain Ernst Brasch : Sergeant Major Paul Bös : Sergeant Globalski Ricklef Müller : Unterscharführer Klaus Behrendt : Adjutant

Blitzmädels an die Front is a German war film by the director Werner Klingler from 1958 with Eva Ingeborg Scholz , Antje Geerk , Horst Frank and Klausjürgen Wussow in the leading roles. The script was written by Hans Hellmut Kirst and Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on August 22, 1958.

action

1944: Towards the end of World War II , Oberführer Hanna Helmke - together with 30 helpers (colloquially known as "Blitzmädel" because of the emblem on the uniform) - is sent to the news center of a field airfield that the German Air Force has built near the French western front. Lieutenant Wagner has long since thrown overboard his conviction that the war can still be won and makes no secret of it. He therefore considers delegating the girls to be pointless. Because of his frank statements, he soon comes into conflict with Hanna Helmke. She only has her service regulations in mind and is used to both receiving and giving orders.

The invasion of the Allies is not long in coming. The director and screenwriters take this as an opportunity to describe a few individual fates of the lightning girls. Quite a few of them die on their missions. A love story between a Wehrmacht helper and a Frenchman with her tragic end is also built in.

Before the Allied troops storm the camp, Helmke is ordered to go with her intelligence officers to another camp, where they can be used to care for the wounded.

criticism

"Politically and morally questionable war film in a supposedly documentary style."

- Lexicon of international film

source

Program for the film from the publishing house Das Neue Film-Programm , Mannheim, No. 4014

Web links

• Blitzmädels to the front in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pictures of the film at cinema.de (archived version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 3174 (1988), p. 368