The Degenhardts
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Degenhardts |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Klingler |
| script |
Hans Gustl Kernmayr , Wilhelm Krug , Georg Zoch |
| production | Heinrich George |
| music | Herbert Windt |
| camera | Georg Bruckbauer |
| cut | Ella Ensink |
| occupation | |
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The Degenhardts is a German propaganda film from 1944 directed by Werner Klingler and produced by Tobis Filmkunst .
Heinrich George plays father Karl Degenhardt, authoritarian patriarch of a family with a wife and five children in Lübeck and a decorated veteran of the First World War . The city secretary was called to the town hall on his birthday, August 28, 1939, and learned that he had been retired instead of the expected promotion. After the beginning of the Second World War , his sons enlisted for military service, one soon fell. Father Degenhardt reports back to work after the family witnessed the air raid on Lübeck . One scene shows him walking through the destroyed city with his family after an air raid.
The film was part of a series of propaganda films designed to strengthen the home front . He used the psychological consequences of the airstrike to promote anti-British sentiments and attitudes as well as the perseverance of the civilian population.
The locations were Lübeck, Stralsund and Lüneburg (the scenes in and in front of the town hall).
The premiere took place in Lübeck on June 30, 1944, the Berlin premiere on August 11, 1944 in the Kosmos cinema. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , to whom Ewald von Demandowsky had previously shown the film in a private screening, thought it was very successful and noted in his diary: “For the first time, the topic of aerial warfare is included here, in a very tactful way psychologically clever wise. ”However, he only brought in 3.5 million Reichsmarks and was generally considered a flop.
After the end of the war in 1945, the demonstration was banned by the Allied military governments.
In May 2018 the film was shown in Lübeck's Marienkirche , accompanied by an introduction by the film historian Wolfgang Jacobsen .
literature
- O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich . Camden House, 2006.
See also
- List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era
- Propaganda film
- List of German films banned under Allied military censorship
Web links
- The Degenhardt's in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ O'Brien (Lit.), p. 145
- ↑ Quoted from Bernd Heidenreich, Sönke Neitzel: Media in National Socialism. Paderborn: Schöningh 2006, p. 96
- ^ O'Brien (Lit.), p. 148
- ^ Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ 60 years of the Nordic Film Days: The Degenhardts in St. Marien , hl-live from May 2, 2018, accessed on May 2, 2018