The Degenhardts
Directed byWerner Klingler
Written by
Produced byHeinrich George
Starring
CinematographyGeorg Bruckbauer
Edited byElla Ensink
Music byHerbert Windt
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
6 July 1944
Running time
93 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Degenhardts (German: Die Degenhardts) is a 1944 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Heinrich George, Ernst Schröder and Gunnar Möller. It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin and on location in Stralsund, Lüneburg and Lübeck. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Lück and Fritz Maurischat.

Plot

Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in Lübeck, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of Second World War culminating in the bombing of the city on 28 March 1942 by the Royal Air Force.

Background

The film was part of a cycle of home front films produced in Germany during the war. The film was intended to fan anti-British sentiment and prepare Germans psychologically for the destruction of their cities by Allied bombing raids and invasions.[1] It premiered in Lübeck on 6 July 1944.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ O'Brien p. 145

Bibliography

  • O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Camden House, 2006.
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