Bleeding Germany
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bleeding Germany |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 68 (Germany), 62 (Austria) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Häussler |
| script | Erich Wallis |
| production | Erich Wallis |
| music | Hans Bullerian |
| camera | Archive recordings |
| synchronization | |
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Bleeding Germany is a tendentious, propagandistic, German documentary from the turning point of 1932/33 by Johannes Häussler .
action
The film gives a historical outline of the German history of the Second Reich, starting with the Franco-Prussian War and the founding of the Empire in 1871 up to the fall of the Weimar Republic . The most important stages are the battle of Sedan and the victory over France, the coronation of William I as emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles , followed by a long period of peace (1871–1914) that accompanied Germany's economic prosperity. The First World War followed with the abdication of Wilhelm II, the political unrest in Berlin and elsewhere (so-called Spartakist struggles), the peace dictate of Versailles, the Polish attacks against Upper Silesia, the German disarmament enforced in Versailles in 1919, with the rearmament of Germany Neighbors, the rapidly rising unemployment and the execution by the French in 1923 of the activist Albert Leo Schlageters , who was celebrated as a martyr by the National Socialists , who rebelled against the occupation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians and who carried out several explosive attacks.
The genesis of German National Socialism is a special aspect . The alleged heroic moments in particular are worked out here: Adolf Hitler's early appearances in Munich (from 1919) are shown, and the death and burial of the Berlin SA leader Horst Wessels , another National Socialist “martyr”, the Harzburg Front , is illustrated So-called Stahlhelm Day, speeches by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and finally the appointment of Hitler as the new Reich Chancellor by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933 . The day of Potsdam (March 21, 1933), however, is missing because it took place one day before the censorship of the now finished film. The version that opened in Austrian cinemas on June 16, 1933, but which was quickly banned in Vienna, also reports on May Day 1933 as an event presented. This version measured around 1,700 meters, divided into four acts, and was therefore only slightly shorter than the Imperial German version of Bleeding Germany, which premiered at the end of March 1933 .
Production notes
Bleeding Germany was created in 1932, before the National Socialists came to power , and its first version was submitted to the film censorship on New Year's Eve 1932. The version was 36 minutes long. Since the events in Germany rolled over at the beginning of 1933, the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933 was incorporated into the version that was finally shown. This 68-minute version was censored on March 22, 1933 and premiered on March 30, 1933. The film was released for young people and is said to have sparked international protests.
The native Englishman Philipp Manning acted as speaker for this film, Hanns Heinz Ewers wrote the prologue.
reception
“This film… presents itself as a compact overview of the last 60 years of German history. (…) In general, the film that is dedicated to the national survey, in which it… compares our armament status and that of the others, is the most effective. But the original recordings of Leo Schlageter's shooting by the French in Golsheimer Heide near Düsseldorf are downright shocking. (...) The by far more extensive second part of the film includes, in addition to some early recordings from the Hitler movement, especially the last three years of the rise. "
Paimann's film lists found: “Historical reminiscences seen according to party political ideology. Partly original recordings from war reports and newsreels, partly from film examples provided afterwards in a primitive structure only give outlines and memory images of the rather tendentious accompanying lecture (Dr. Manning) to interim texts in National Socialist terminology. Due to the different negative material, the photography is very different, the sound reproduction is not always satisfactory. If one puts ideological considerations aside and only applies cinematic-qualitative standards: too sketchy and not comprehensive for the title, without a dramatic penetration of the extensive material ”.
“The first film in the national survey is“ Bleeding Germany ”(1933). Historical sections and all kinds of cinematic documents have been arranged here under a common collection point. Where there is no film negative about events of the time, provided shots come in that adapt to the style of the whole: the birth of the Reich, World War, November Revolution, Spartakus fights, occupation of the Ruhr area, Schlageter's heroic death and finally Germany's awakening and national rebirth. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German Feature Film Almanach 1929–1950, p. 170. New edition Berlin 1976.
- ^ German newsreel 1938–1945
- ↑ Bleeding Germany ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Paimann's film lists.
