Lebensborn (film)

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Movie
Original title Lebensborn
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Werner Klingler
script Will Berthold
Heinz Oskar Wuttig based
on the factual report Lebensborn eV by Will Berthold printed in the revue
production Artur Brauner
for Alfa (Berlin)
music Gerhard Becker
camera Igor Oberberg
cut Ira Oberberg
occupation

Lebensborn is a German feature film from 1960 by Werner Klingler with Maria Perschy and Joachim Hansen in the leading roles.

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SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler founded the Nazi project " Lebensborn " and gave the SS doctor Dr. Hagen transferred the line. In this strictly isolated facility, around 30 young, “Aryan” BDM women are to be brought together with “deserving” SS men or Wehrmacht soldiers who have been awarded at the front and have returned home . In keeping with the National Socialist racial doctrine, “genetically perfect” offspring should be born in this way - in order to refresh the so-called “ master race ”. One of the girls who should “give the Führer a child” is the young Doris Korff. The director of the institution Dr. Hagen is more interested in the young woman than is desired "from above". After all, love is not envisaged as a motive for propagation in the Nazi ideology .

Doris meets first lieutenant Klaus Steinbach, a highly decorated knight's cross bearer . In truth, however, the system-critical young man has equipped himself with the papers of an SS man who was killed in an air raid. Steinbach was sentenced to death by a court martial , but was able to escape his executioners before the execution and has now ended up in the Lebensborn project. Steinbach shows Doris the inhumanity of the Nazi penal institutions and convinces her of his views. Now Doris is also disgusted by the callous way a “master race” should be bred, and she escapes with Klaus. The goal of the two is Switzerland . But they don't get very far; Klaus is shot while trying to escape, Doris falls into the clutches of the henchmen and is sentenced to death.

She is pregnant by Klaus. However, since the Lebensborn project plans to produce " Aryan " children, the execution of the death sentence is suspended until after the birth of Doris' baby. Hardly in the world, the child is immediately taken away from Doris. The young woman later has to find out that her baby did not survive. Now Doris Korff is to be executed. At the moment of execution there is an Allied air raid, as a result of which Doris manages to escape captivity. She wanders through the torn streets and picks up an orphaned toddler as a result of the bombing , next to whom the dead parents are lying in the ditch.

Production notes

Lebensborn was shot in October and November 1960 in the Berlin CCC film studios. On January 4, 1961, the film passed the FSK test, the premiere was on January 13, 1961.

Paul Markwitz and Max Vorwerg created the film structures .

Reviews

"An unsavory work."

- Films 1959/61. Handbook VI of the Catholic Film Critics, p. 101

Paimann's film lists summed up: “Thematically shocking, but discreetly prepared and showing human relationships in the furious way of political delusion; with impressive actors ... ".

“Cinema entertainment like a magazine. At the melodramatic end of the film, the director, who works relatively discreetly, manages to create some impressive images.

Individual evidence

  1. Lebensborn in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.filmarchiv.at
  2. Lebensborn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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