Blood Brotherhood (1941)

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Movie
Original title Blood brotherhood
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1941
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK none
Rod
Director Philipp Lothar Mayring
script Philipp Lothar Mayring ,
Harald G. Petersson , based
on an idea by Peter Andres
production Walter Tost
music Michael Jary
camera Ekkehard Kyrath
cut Gertrud Hinz
occupation

Blood Brotherhood is a Nazi propaganda film by Philipp Lothar Mayring from 1941.

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

On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Klaus Olden and his unit tried desperately to hold a lost post. The rescue appears in the form of the pilot Jochen Wendler, who shows up with his plane and drops ammunition. When Jochen's machine is shot down immediately, Klaus manages to pull him out of the wreck at the last second. Both injured are taken to the hospital , where they are cared for by the attractive nurse Barbara, a childhood friend of Jochen's.

The two men form blood brotherhood and travel with Barbara to East Prussia , where they want to visit Jochen's relatives on their estate . But the relatives' farm was destroyed in the war. The post-war period turned out to be an economic disaster, in which Klaus and Jochen were forced to accept any job that came up. But when one day they were supposed to destroy German gun barrels in an army disposal depot, Jochen, who has still not taken off his uniform in spirit, was so against nature that he suggested his friend, whom he no longer understood, for five years to go their separate ways.

Klaus finds a well-paid job and hires Barbara, whom he secretly loves, as a housekeeper . Jochen is still unemployed, but finds ideal satisfaction in his commitment to a political organization to fight the “internal and external enemies of Germany”. After five years, the friends meet again as agreed, but they split up again in an argument, as the differences still exist and Barbara also realizes that it is not Klaus, but Jochen, whom she loves. Barbara leaves Klaus and follows Jochen. Only when she is expecting a child and her life is threatened by a heart disease does Klaus realize that he shouldn't have let his blood brother down. There was reconciliation and on September 1, 1939, the friends at the head of their company - now united in their idealistic goals - went to war side by side again .

Production and reception

The film was produced and distributed by Berlin-based Terra-Filmkunst GmbH . The shooting took place in the Ufa studios in Berlin-Tempelhof , in the Prague Hostivar studios and in the vicinity of Prague (exterior shots) between May 10th and early July 1940. When it was submitted to the film inspection office on December 23, 1940, the film was banned from youth; a title was not awarded. The premiere took place on January 3, 1941 in the Berlin “Atrium” and in the Ufa theater “Tauentzien-Palast”.

After the end of the Second World War , all copies of the film were confiscated by the high command of the victorious Allied powers and the performance was banned. Today, the exploitation rights are held by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation that the presentation of this proviso film allows only through special training courses.

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