Robert and Bertram (1939)

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Movie
Original title Robert and Bertram
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1939
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK none
Rod
Director Hans H. Zerlett
script Hans H. Zerlett
production Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH
Helmut Schreiber (Head)
music Leo Leux
camera Friedl Behn-Grund
cut Ella Ensink
occupation

Robert und Bertram is a German comedy and anti-Semitic propaganda film directed by Hans H. Zerlett in 1939.

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

Robert and Bertram are two drifters who escaped from prison. They visit the Silberner Schwan inn , where they meet Lenchen, the host's beautiful daughter. It is to be sold to the greasy Biedermeier. He would like to marry her, but she would rather marry the recruit Michel. When Robert and Bertram find out about this, they decide to help Lenchen. You go to Berlin and steal jewelry from the nouveau riche Jewish councilor Ipelmeyer. They give the jewelry to Lenchen's father so that he no longer has to sell them and she can marry her beloved Michel.

production

The film was based on the farce of the same name by Gustav Raeder (1811–1868) from 1856. Rudolf Fichtner and Karl Buchholz were in charge of recording . Film structures were taken care of by Erich Zander and Karl Machus . Ernst Kunstmann was responsible for optical special effects and Richard Wesel for still photos . The assistant director was Elly Rauch .

criticism

According to Erwin Leiser , Robert and Bertram with linen from Ireland was one of the first of the “most important anti-Jewish propaganda films” of the Nazi era. The "caricature of the Jewish sub-human " embedded in the comic plot illustrates the Nazi propaganda thesis that "the Jew is clever, but not clever. The Nordic cunning defeats the Jewish twist! "The punch line of the film, in which the Jewish characters like Ipelmeyer appear only as crude caricatures and clumsy and uneducated upstart from the ghetto , is that" the Jew has to foot the bill: the 'cheater ›Is the one who has been betrayed,“ whereby the film evidently takes the view that it is permissible to steal from a Jew, according to the anti-Semitic propaganda, according to which Jews themselves can only have acquired their property through fraud and theft.

The lexicon of international films considers the "turbulent Reich German musical" to be "aptly cast", but also admits that it contains "some nasty anti-Semitic caricatures": "'The Jews' are flat-footed, mocking, horny and greedy."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 67.
  2. ↑ Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1968, p. 67f.
  3. ↑ Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1968, p. 68.
  4. ↑ Erwin Leiser: "Germany, awake!" Propaganda in the film of the Third Reich . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1968, pp. 68f.
  5. ↑ Robert and Bertram. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used