List of the highest rated National Socialist feature films

The following list includes the German feature films that premiered during the National Socialist era and which were awarded the highest ratings by the Filmprüfstelle . The list thus reflects which films were rated the highest by the National Socialist rulers themselves. In a quantitative comparison, for example, only 11 of the US film productions shown received the rating "artistically valuable" by the National Socialist test centers.

List of feature films

Film of the nation

The title “ Film der Nation” was only rarely given, and only in conjunction with the title “ Film der Nation” , which was particularly valuable in terms of state politics and art .

• Ohm Krüger (Direction: Hans Steinhoff , 1941)
• Homecoming ( Gustav Ucicky , 1941)
• The great king ( Veit Harlan , 1942)
• The discharge ( Wolfgang Liebeneiner , 1942)
• Kolberg ( Veit Harlan , 1945)

Particularly valuable in terms of state politics and art

• Me for you - you for me ( Carl Froelich , 1934)
• Hermione and the Seven Upright ( Frank Wysbar , 1935)
• The old and the young king ( Hans Steinhoff , 1935)
• The girl Johanna ( Gustav Ucicky , 1935)
• Frisian hardship (Peter Hagen = Willi Krause , 1935; downgraded 1939)
• The higher command ( Gerhard Lamprecht , 1935)
• Traumulus ( Carl Froelich , 1936)
• The Emperor of California ( Luis Trenker , 1936)
• Traitor ( Karl Ritter , 1936)
• If we were all angels ( Carl Froelich , 1936)
• The ruler ( Veit Harlan , 1937)
• Patriots ( Karl Ritter , 1937)
• Vacation on word of honor ( Karl Ritter , 1937)
• Pour le Mérite ( Karl Ritter , 1938)
• Robert Koch, the fighter of death ( Hans Steinhoff , 1939)
• Mother's love ( Gustav Ucicky , 1939)
• Jud Suss ( Veit Harlan , 1940)
• Bismarck ( Wolfgang Liebeneiner , 1940)
• Kampfgeschwader Lützow ( Hans Bertram , 1941)
• Annelie ( Josef von Báky , 1941)
• Comedians ( GW Pabst , 1941)
• Andreas Schlueter ( Herbert Maisch , 1942)
• Who the gods love ( Karl Hartl , 1942)
• Titanic ( Herbert Selpin , 1943)
• The neverending way ( Hans Schweikart , 1943)

Particularly valuable in terms of state policy

• D III 88 ( Herbert Maisch , 1939)

Particularly valuable (until 1934) / artistically particularly valuable (from 1939)

• SA Mann Brand ( Franz Seitz , 1933)
• Hitler Youth Quex ( Hans Steinhoff , 1933)
• Maturing youth ( Carl Froelich , 1933)
• Refugees ( Gustav Ucicky , 1933)
• The Schimmelreiter ( Curt Oertel , Hans Deppe , 1934)
• The prodigal son ( Luis Trenker , 1934)
• Quarrel about Jolanthe ( Carl Froelich , 1934)
• It was a glittering ball night ( Carl Froelich , 1939)
• Liberated hands ( Hans Schweikart , 1939)
• The Postmaster ( Gustav Ucicky , 1940)
• I indict ( Wolfgang Liebeneiner , 1941)
• Viennese blood ( Willi Forst , 1942)
• The golden city ( Veit Harlan , 1942)
• The great shadow ( Paul Verhoeven , 1942)
• Münchhausen ( Josef von Báky , 1943)
• Sophienlund ( Heinz Rühmann , 1943)
• Romance in Minor ( Helmut Käutner , 1943)
• Old heart becomes young again ( Erich Engel , 1943)
• Sacrifice , ( Veit Harlan , 1943)
• The imperative call ( Gustav Ucicky , 1944)
• Philharmonic ( Paul Verhoeven , 1944)
• The heart must be silent ( Gustav Ucicky , 1944)

See also

• National Socialist Film Policy
• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era
• List of films forbidden under National Socialism
• List of German films banned under Allied military censorship
• Reservation film
• Propaganda film
• Film rating

literature

• Klaus Kanzog : "State-politically particularly valuable": a handbook on 30 German feature films from 1934 to 1945 . Diskurs-Film-Verlag Schaudig and Ledig, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-926372-05-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Saekel: The US film in the Weimar Republic - a medium of "Americanization" ?: German film industry, cultural policy and media globalization in the focus of transatlantic interests. Verlag Schoeningh Ferdinand, 2011, ISBN 3506771744 , p. 169.