Rommel, the desert fox

Movie
German title	Rommel, the desert fox
Original title	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1951
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Henry Hathaway
script	Nunnally Johnson
production	Nunnally Johnson
music	Daniele Amfitheatrof
camera	Norbert Brodine
cut	James B. Clark
occupation
James Mason : Erwin Rommel Cedric Hardwicke : Dr. Karl Strölin Jessica Tandy : Lucie Marie Rommel Luther Adler : Adolf Hitler Everett Sloane : Wilhelm Burgdorf Leo G. Carroll : Gerd von Rundstedt George Macready : Fritz Bayerlein Richard Boone : Hermann Aldinger Eduard Franz : Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Desmond Young : Lt. Colonel Desmond Young William Reynold : Manfred Rommel Paul Cavanagh : Lieutenant Colonel Caesar von Hofacker John Goldsworthy : General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel Peter van Eyck : German officer

Rommel the Desert Fox is an American film from 1951. The main character in the film is Field Marshal Erwin Rommel .

action

The to those closest of Adolf Hitler belonging Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in the Egyptian el-Alamein is with the Italian troops on the rise is, in the first battle of El Alamein stopped by the Allies. His men become prisoners of war, he himself is sent to a hospital.

In the following years he had more and more doubts about Hitler's decision-making and leadership abilities. His situation worsened when the Allies landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Rommel came into contact with General Hans Speidel and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his confidants, who carried out an assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 ; Hitler survived the assassination attempt. Stauffenberg and the other participants in the attack are executed; Rommel is charged with high treason as an accomplice. He is given the opportunity to honorably commit suicide. When he is assured that his wife and son will be spared prosecution, he decides to die voluntarily.

Reviews

"Well-staged action scenes, documentary material and a convincing leading actor make the American war film worth discussing."

- Lexicon of international film

Trivia

• In this film, Stauffenberg is probably portrayed as a cinema character for the first time.
• Rommel actor James Mason played the field marshal again in Die Wüstenratten (1953).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rommel, the desert fox. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 2, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Drehli Robnik: History aesthetics and affect politics . Stauffenberg and July 20 in the film 1948–2008. Vienna 2009. p. 76.

literature

• Claus Löser: Rommel, the desert fox . In: Film Genres. War Movie. Edited by Thomas Klein, Marcus Stiglegger and Bodo Traber. Stuttgart: Reclam 2006, pp. 93-96 [with references]. ISBN 978-3-15-018411-0 .

Web links

• Rommel, the Desert Fox in the Internet Movie Database (English)