Just don't get soft, Susanne!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Just don't get soft, Susanne! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arzén of Cserépy |
| script | Hans Hömberg based on a novella by Peter Hagen alias Willi Krause |
| production | Arzén of Cserépy |
| music |
Erwin Offeney , Marc Roland |
| camera | Guido Seeber |
| occupation | |
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Just don't get soft, Susanne! is an anti-Semitic German feature film with the subtitle A Grotesque from a bygone era, which was produced from 1934 by the Berlin-based Cserepy-Tonfilmproduktion GmbH and published on January 24, 1935.
action
The film takes place in the film milieu towards the end of the Weimar Republic against the backdrop of the global economic crisis . The title character Susanne is an unemployed extra who, through an assistant director, finds a supporting role in the kitsch film Lieb mich mal in Honolulu . The producers are Jews who are portrayed as greedy and lustful and at the same time run an illegal casino . When a visitor commits suicide, the film producers kidnap Susanne and another actress as a distraction. Georg, Susanne's fiancé, frees the women. Together they try to prove the producers' guilt. As a result of the in Just don't get soft, Susanne! thematized seizure of power by the National Socialists , the producers are arrested and Susanne and Georg a married couple.
interpretation
The film was made in the early phase of National Socialist rule , before anti-Semitic propaganda was relatively withdrawn around the time of the 1936 Olympic Games . Another wave of anti-Semitic films began in 1939.
The film scholar Karsten Witte wrote about the film in 1993:
“But there is a German director. He fights for the 'clean, artistic' film - and wants to enforce a realism in the studio that nobody takes seriously. (…) This poor comedy has two internal enemies: the Jewish man, whose erotic desire is denounced, and the autonomous woman, whose artistic self-realization is first encouraged, then done. The aesthetic opponent is called realism, which is infiltrated and then weakened (...) In the Third Reich, the formative power of illusionism should emerge from this again. "
The critic David Stewart Hull suspects that the obviously poor quality of the script contributed to Willi Krause , who had held the newly created position of Reichsfilmdramaturg since February 1934 , fell out of favor with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and was replaced in April 1936.
See also
- List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era
- National Socialist Film Policy
- Nazi propaganda
Web links
- Just don't get soft, Susanne! in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Just don't get soft, Susanne! at filmportal.de
Footnotes
- ↑ Klaus Kreimeier : Anti-Semitism in National Socialist Films ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2012 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. . In: Cilly Kugelmann & Fritz Backhaus (eds.): Jewish figures in film and caricature. The Rothschilds and Joseph Süss Oppenheimer Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-2317-0
- ↑ Karsten Witte : Film in National Socialism. In: Wolfgang Jacobsen , Anton Kaes, Hans Helmut Prinzler (Hrsg.): History of German film. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-476-00883-5 , p. 126 (quoted here from Klaus Kreimeier: Anti-Semitism in National Socialist Films )
- ↑ David Stewart Hull: Film in the Third Reich. University of California Press, 1969, p. 43
