Combat Squadron Lützow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Combat Squadron Lützow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK none |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Bertram |
| script |
Hans Bertram Wolf Neumeister |
| production | Robert Wuellner ( Tobis Filmkunst ) |
| music | Norbert Schultze |
| camera |
Georg Krause , Heinz von Jaworsky , Walter Roßkopf |
| occupation | |
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Kampfgeschwader Lützow is a Nazi war and propaganda film made in 1940 , practically as a continuation of the film D III 88 (1939) and largely made with the same participants, but with Hans Bertram as director. The title was not chosen after the fighter pilot Günther Lützow , who was still little known at the time , but after General Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow . It premiered on February 28, 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.
The film was shot primarily at the Bodenhagen airfield (now Bagicz in Polish) near Kolberg (Pomerania), as well as in Wyszków (Mazovia). Soldiers from the Luftwaffe's Hindenburg squadron stationed in Bodenhagen acted as extras. The Polish soldiers were partly played by Slovak soldiers.
action
The comrades of the Lützow Aircraft Combat Squadron, who were welded together during the First World War , the Spanish Civil War and their experiences in times of peace, now have to prove themselves in the attack on Poland . They bomb Polish positions and fortresses.
On the return flight, they discover large numbers of expelled ethnic Germans who are tormented by boastful Poles. When the German machines appear, the Polish escort teams hide among their prisoners. Nevertheless, the German gunmen succeeded in a daring attack, either killing the Poles or driving them to flight, without a single German being harmed. This is followed by missions in the western campaign , and in the end the squadron flies the first missions against England.
Awards
The film received the ratings "particularly valuable from a political and artistic point of view", "popularly valuable" and "youthful value" from the National Socialist Film Inspectorate . In the post-war period it was classified as a reserve film ; thus its performance in Germany is only possible to a limited extent today.
Reviews
The contemporary press celebrated the glorification of heroic death in film. About the figure of Sergeant Paulsen, who was fatally injured in a dogfight, before a letter from Grethe reached him stating that she did not love him, the Illustrated Filmkurier said: “But the dying man still proves the spirit in the Air Force is alive. With the last of his strength he lands his machine, he saves his comrade, then he collapses dead. But his spirit lives on in hundreds, in thousands. And his sacrifice will never be forgotten. "
“It is the report of a merry war with air ballets and amusing bombings. It's frightening how the war is being played down here! The German bomb and fighter pilot is portrayed as fair and noble. "
Because of its National Socialist propaganda , the film was banned by the high command of the victorious Allied powers after the end of World War II . 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.
See also
Web links
- Kampfgeschwader Lutzow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kampfgeschwader Lützow in the online film database
- Kampfgeschwader Lützow at Filmportal.de
- Combat Squadron Lützow at Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from Erwin Leiser : “Germany, awake!” Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1968, p. 28f.