Traitor (film)

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Movie
Original title traitor
Traitor 1936 Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1936
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Karl Ritter
script Leonhard Prince
music Harold M. Kirchstein
camera Günther Anders
Heinz von Jaworsky (aerial photos)
cut Gottfried Ritter
occupation

Verräter is a crime film that was produced as a National Socialist propaganda film by Karl Ritter in 1936 with the support of the Wehrmacht .

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Foreign secret services are making increased efforts to uncover the secrets of the German arms industry. First, an agent is smuggled into a German aircraft factory by giving him a false identity as a fitter and using the code name “Schultz”. As a calm and capable man, he soon became familiar with the latest aircraft models.

At the same time, the group of agents in the capital, Berlin, places advertisements in which contacts to industry are sought and good earning opportunities are offered. Thereupon the highly indebted designer Brockau reports, who is desperately looking for new sources of money in order to be able to finance the costly claims of his pleasure-addicted friend Marion. Brockau, the inventor of a new type of crude oil gasifier, works in the T-Metallwerke, where the latest German tank models are developed. Therefore it is the ideal catch for the agents and will soon be wriggling firmly in their net. Brockau reveals and gradually sells one secret after another to the agents.

Finally, the agents try the former banker and current tank crew to get pinch in their catches, the shooter on a Panzer I 's. Klemm, who gives the agent Morris a harmless stock market tip, receives an alleged profit share from him. Morris later blackmailed him with a forged receipt in which Klemm allegedly confirmed receipt of the money for the betrayal of state secrets. However, Klemm struggles to report the story to his superiors. These inform the defense of the Wehrmacht , which, in cooperation with the Gestapo, has been after the agent ring for a long time.

Now it is possible to let the agents be exposed one by one. The first to catch it is Schultz, whose false identity bursts after a check. Schultz can still start with a new dive bomber model, but is shot down on the Channel coast by a joint action by the Air Force and Navy . Then Brockau, who was supposed to sabotage a waterworks on behalf of Morris, is caught red-handed. Then Morris can be sent, who gives his game lost at the last minute. The last traitor, Geyer, initially escapes by train. But when this is stopped by the police, Geyer flees into a swamp, where he sinks miserably.

The film ends with an appeal by the tank department, where the execution of the traitor Brockau is announced. Soldier Klemm, on the other hand, received a commendation for his courage in front of the assembled company.

background

Traitor was produced and awarded by the Berlin UFA . The Focke-Wulf Fw 56 "Stößer" was used as a dive bomber during the shooting . Aerial photographs of this type of aircraft, which are built in relatively few copies, are extremely rare. “Schulze's” test aircraft is a He 70 , and He 51 was also used for the shooting .

The German premiere took place on August 24, 1936. The film was rated in 1936 as exemplary popular education and awarded all the prizes of the Nazi state, and also praised in 1938 at the Venice Biennale .

After the end of the Second World War , the Allied military governments issued a ban on demonstrations. The Lexicon of International Films notes that “from today's point of view […] the political and ideological film of the dramaturgically interesting and quite exciting film is comparatively thin”. The exploitation rights for the film are now held by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation .

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  1. ↑ a b traitor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 7, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used