Sky dogs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sky dogs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1942 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK reserve film |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger from Norman |
| script | Philipp Lothar Mayring |
| production | Alf Teichs , Terra-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) |
| music | Werner Bochmann |
| camera | Herbert Körner |
| cut | Ira Oberberg |
| occupation | |
| |
Himmelhunde is a 1942 German feature film directed by Roger von Norman . It tells the story of the Hitler Youth Werner ( Erik Schumann ), who successfully took part in a glider competition despite being banned. However, because of his disobedience, his victory is denied. Werner overcomes his defiance and recognizes the need for "absolute obedience" only with great effort and with the support of the senior squad leader Fritz Kilian ( Malte Jäger ).
The film made during the time of National Socialism is one of the reserved films .
action
The Hitler Youth Werner belongs to a HJ -glider group, which is led by NSFK -Obertruppführer Kilian. The boys are working on a new glider for a competition. When Kilian discovers something wrong with the plane, he forbids it to take off. Without Kilian's knowledge, Werner succeeds in correcting the error. The boy enters the competition and wins, but his victory is denied. Werner and some comrades are expelled from the camp for disobedience. Kilian succeeds only slowly in convincing Werner that he cannot survive in a comradeship without obedience. After he shows himself to be understanding, he and his comrades are allowed to return to the camp.
Production notes
The shooting for Himmelhunde took place from August 11, 1941 to October 7, 1941 in the training camp of the Hitler Youth at Hornberg airfield in the Swabian Alb and from October 10, 1941 to November 1, 1941 in the Ufast town of Babelsberg. In the " Reichssegelflugschule Hornberg" there were enough gliders available as accessories. Many amateur actors from the local Hitler Youth and from the Nazi elite school Napola in Feldafing in Bavaria acted as extras . Terra-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) acted as the production company (production management: Eduard Kubat ). Willi Herrmann-Balz was responsible for recording production. The buildings came from Hermann Asmus . The premiere took place on February 20, 1942 instead of in Berlin in the Ufa-Palast in Stuttgart and in parallel in Schwäbisch Gmünd . The film then opened in Berlin on April 1, 1942 . After the end of the war, the film was subject to examination by the Allied military censorship.
The film was not very successful economically. Except in southern Germany it was hardly performed.
Criticism / reception
A senior Nazi official explains the intention of the film: “The best offspring for the best air force in the world. Because today's glider pilots are tomorrow's fighter pilots. "
Because of the demand for absolute obedience and the glorification of National Socialist ideology propagated in the film, it was banned by the high command of the allied victorious powers after the end of the Second World War in June 1945. Today the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation claims the evaluation rights. The film is classified as a reserve film . Since then, its public performance has only been possible to a limited extent.
See also
Web links
- Himmelhunde in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Himmelhunde at filmportal.de
- Himmelhunde at Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Himmelhunde - Nazi propaganda as home film ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at gmuender-vhs.de. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
- ↑ Himmelhunde at Shoa.de
- ↑ a b c Himmelhunde at filmportal.de
- ↑ Bianca Dustdar: Film as a propaganda instrument in the youth policy of the Third Reich , Coppi-Verlag 1996, p. 114
