Legion Condor (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Legion Condor |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| Age rating | FSK none |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karl Ritter with the assistance of General der Flieger Helmuth Wilberg |
| script |
Felix Lützkendorf Karl Ritter |
| music | Herbert Windt |
| camera | Günther Anders |
| cut | Gottfried Ritter |
Legion Condor is an unfinished documentary feature film in the sense of Nazi propaganda . He glorifies the soldiers of the " Legion Condor " who trained Franco's troops in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 and fought on their side against the "world enemy" Bolshevism . Filming was stopped on September 1, 1939 because of the German invasion of Poland .
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
The film is a feature film version of the Nazi documentary In the Fight Against the World Enemy . The deployment of the Condor and others Legion is glorified. a. shown in the bombing of the city of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War.
Emergence
Legion Condor is one of 21 propaganda films for which Hermann Göring initiated the UFA in 1939 . Filming began on August 9, 1939 in Babelsberg . However, they had to be suspended on August 25, 1939 because of the attack on Poland.
In addition, the film would not have been usable in this phase due to the newly established relations between Germany and the Soviet Union ( Hitler-Stalin Pact ). For the producing UFA, the non-completion of the Condor Legion meant a loss of around 5.5 million Reichsmarks . However, according to the UFA board minutes of August 2, 1939, the film budget was RM 916,000 and in the minutes of August 22, 1939 it was noted that "so far about RM 400,000 had been spent on the project". Filming was suspended three days later.
criticism
The film glorifies the "spirit of the front aviators" that was hammered into the soldiers of the new air force . The officers' experiences are casually incorporated. Joseph Goebbels wrote about the film in his diary: “Knight's Legion Condor, 2 acts. Turned out very well. Unfortunately, because of the strong anti-Bolshevik tendency, it is not useful at the moment. ”After the end of World War II, the film was classified as a reserved film because of the war propaganda it contained . Since then, its public performance has only been possible to a limited extent.
Web links
- Condor Legion in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Legion Condor at filmportal.de
- "The Condor Legion" at dhm.de.
- Military & history: Legion Condor 1936-1939 (with original recordings) at geschichtekompakt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst O. Hermanni: Das Film-ABC. Volume 2: From Dorothy Dandridge to Willy Fritsch. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8334-2374-1 , p. 28.
- ↑ Legion Condor (unfinished) at Murnau Foundation.
- ↑ Jay W. Baird: To Die for Germany. Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon. 1st Midland book edition. Indiana University Press, Bloomington et al. 1992, ISBN 0-253-20757-6 , p. 193.
- ↑ David Stewart Hull: Film in the Third Reich. A Study of the German Cinema 1933-1945. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1969, p. 150.
- ↑ cf. Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films. (Lexicon of full-length German and German-language feature films). Volume 10: Born in 1939. Klaus-Archiv, Berlin et al. 1999, ISBN 3-927352-09-8 , p. 117.
- ↑ Erwin Leiser : "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich (= Rororo 783 rororo current , ISSN 0720-0943 ). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 43.
- ↑ Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. All fragments. Part 1: Records 1924–1941. Volume 3: 1.1.1937 - 31.12.1939. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1987, ISBN 3-598-21918-0 , September 9, 1939.