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Ich Klage An
''Ich klage an'' (; en, I Accuse, italic=yes, link=yes) is a 1941 Nazi German pro-euthanasia propaganda film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and produced by Heinrich Jonen and Ewald von Demandowsky. It was banned by Allied powers after the war. Plot A beautiful young wife suffering from multiple sclerosis pleads with doctors to kill her. Her husband, a successful doctor himself, gives her a fatal overdose and is put on trial, where arguments are put forth that prolonging life is sometimes contrary to nature, and that death is a right as well as a duty. It culminates in the husband's declaration that he is accusing them of cruelty for trying to prevent such deaths. Cast Propaganda elements This film was commissioned by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels at the suggestion of Dr. Karl Brandt, to make the public more supportive of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Key scenes from the film were personally inserted by Victor Brack Viktor Hermann Brack (9 November 1904 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner (6 October 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a German actor, film director and theatre director. Beginnings He was born in Lubawka, Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing. Nazi era In 1936, Liebeneiner became a member of the Konzerthaus Berlin, Prussian State Theater () in Berlin and in 1938, he became artistic director of the German Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg, Babelsberg (). In 1941, he directed the film ''Ich klage an'' (''I accuse'') in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The film was about Euthanasia, voluntary euthanasia of a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis, but was intended to support the Action T4, T4 euthanasia program. He received a doctorate in the years from 1942 to 1945 while working for Universum Film AG, the largest German film studio at that time. Post war In 1947, Liebeneiner directed the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in news and journalism, government, advertising, entertainment, education, and activism and is often associated with material which is prepared by governments as part of war efforts, political campaigns, health campaigns, revolutionaries, big businesses, ultra-religious organizations, the media, and certain individuals such as soapboxers. In the 20th century, the English term ''propaganda'' was often associated with a manipulative approach, but historically, propaganda has been a neutral descriptive term of any material that promotes certain opinions or ideologies. Equivalent non-English terms have also la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes, known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. He was appointed ''Gauleiter'' of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly gained a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor. He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany Selected filmography * '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918) * '' Film Kathi'' (1918) * '' Lorenzo Burghardt'' (1918) * '' Der Mädchenhirt'' (1919) * ''President Barrada'' (1920) * ''The Dancer of Jaipur'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * ''Night and No Morning'' (1921) * '' The Red Masquerade Ball'' (1921) * ''The Man in the Background'' (1922) * ''The Circle of Death'' (1922) * '' The Sleeping Volcano'' (1922) * ''The Love Story of Cesare Ubaldi'' (1922) * '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922) * '' Madame Golvery'' (1923) * '' Tatjana'' (1923) * '' I Had a Comrade'' (1923) * '' His Wife, The Unknown'' (1923) * '' The Secret of the Duchess'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Playing with Destiny'' (1924) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * ''Varieté'' (1925) * ''A Free People'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansi Arnstaedt
Hansi Arnstaedt (8 December 1878 – 8 May 1945) was a German film actress. Her role subject was that of the frisky and naive, later she was seen in character roles. In 1913, she was given the role of the title character in Franz Porten's three-part film biography about Queen Luise. After that, she did not appear in films again until 1930. Mostly she was now a supporting actress, sometimes, as in 1940 in Lauter Liebe as the mother of Hertha Feiler, she took on larger roles. She was on the Gottbegnadeten list of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1944. Selected filmography * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) * '' Three Days of Love'' (1931) * '' Such a Greyhound'' (1931) *'' Errant Husbands'' (1931) * '' The True Jacob'' (1931) * '' I'll Stay with You'' (1931) * ''The Beggar Student'' (1931) * '' The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1932) * '' And the Plains Are Gleaming'' (1933) * ''Love Must Be Understood'' (1933) * ''Two Good Comr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' The Gambler'' (1919) * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' All Souls'' (1919) * ''Devoted Artists'' (1919) * ''The Carousel of Life'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''The Last Sun Son'' (1919) * ''The Fairy of Saint Ménard'' (1919) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * '' Die Spieler'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * ''In the Whirl of Life'' (1920) * '' World by the Throat'' (1920) * ''The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * ''Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * ''The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen'' (1921) * ''Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Graf
Otto Graf (28 November 1896 – 22 February 1977) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1935 and 1970. Partial filmography * ''Nacht der Verwandlung'' (1935) as RenĂ© Duval * '' The Traitor'' (1936) as Capitain Dressler (uncredited) * '' Capers'' (1937) as Zahnarzt * ''Unternehmen Michael'' (1937) as Capitain Von Grauff * ''Die Fledermaus'' (1937) as Rundfunkreporter * '' Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (1938) as Professor Knudsen * ''Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin'' (1938) * ''Pour le MĂ©rite'' (1938) as the capitain-lieutenant * ''Salonwagen E 417'' (1939) as Rittmeister Graf Grenzberg * ''Robert Koch'' (1939) as Dr. Friedrich Löffler * ''Legion Condor'' (1939) * ''Angelika'' (1940) as Prof. Fritz v. Deubertz * '' Bismarck'' (1940) as Robert Von Keudell * ''Ohm KrĂĽger'' (1941) as the German foreign minister * ''Krach im Vorderhaus'' (1941) (uncredited) * ''Ich klage an'' (1941) as Prosecutor Engel * ''Was geschah in dieser Nacht'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Ponto
Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto (14 December 1884 – 14 February 1957) was a German film and stage actor. Career Erich Ponto was born in Lübeck as the son of a merchant. After his family had moved to Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, he attended the gymnasium secondary school in Altona and upon his Abitur exam began a study of pharmacy at the University of Munich, where he went to lectures delivered by Nobel prize laureate Wilhelm Röntgen. He worked for a few years as a pharmacist, but was already passionate about acting during his university time – he started to take acting lessons and eventually became a full-time actor. Ponto gave his debut on stage at the Stadttheater Passau in 1908, followed by engagements in Nordhausen, Reichenberg (Liberec), and Düsseldorf. From 1914 to 1947 he was a member of the Hoftheater Dresden ensemble (Staatstheater Dresden from 1918), in the season 1946/47 also as intendant. On stage his most famous role was that of J.J. Peachum in the original production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Schafheitlin
Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * ''The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) as Bornhausen * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) as Prosecutor * '' The Ringer'' (1932) as Sergeant Carter * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1933) as Major * ''Sonnenstrahl'' (1933) as Ein Arzt im Unfallkrankenhaus * ''Frasquita'' (1934) as Juan * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) * ''Asew'' (1935) as Urzoff * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) as R12 * ''Eva'' (135) as Stefan, ein Arbeiter * ''The Eternal Mask'' (1935) as Monsieur Negar * ''Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl'' (1935) * '' ...nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) as Blanchet, court painter * ''Die Pompadour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Evans
Karin Evans (1907–2004) was a South African-born German stage and film actress. Evans was born in Johannesburg to one British and one German parent. In 1923 she moved to Berlin to study theatre, and began performing in the stage productions of Max Reinhardt. She made her film debut in the 1927 silent crime film ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) and then appeared intermittently in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. In 1964 she appeared in the comedy ''Fanny Hill''Frasier p.205 which proved to be her final screen appearance. She was married to the painter Wolf Hoffmann. Selected filmography * ''The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * ''Boycott'' (1930) * ''The Last Company'' (1930) * '' The Concert'' (1931) * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1934) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * ''Pygmalion'' (1935) * ''Ich klage an'' (1941) * ''Blum Affair'' (1948) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1948) * '' Such a Charade'' (1953) * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * ''Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse FĂĽrstenberg
Ilse Fürstenberg (12 December 1907, in Berlin – 16 December 1976, in Basel) was a German actress, working on stage, screen, television and as voice actress. Selected filmography * ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) - Raths Wirtschafterin / Maid * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) - Marie Hoprecht * ''Girls to Marry'' (1932) * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1932) * '' Unheimliche Geschichten'' (1932) - Frau in der Irrenanstalt * ''The Testament of Cornelius Gulden'' (1932) - Frau Giesicke * ''Hanneles Himmelfahrt'' (1934) - Wirtin * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) - Mädi vom Chantant * ''Jede Frau hat ein Geheimnis'' (1934) * ''Glückspilze'' (1935) - Frau Roeder * ''Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (1935) - Frau Kuser * ''Forget Me Not'' (1935) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) - Duchess of Barwick * ''Artist Love'' (1935) - Frau Heller * ''Frisians in Peril'' (1935) - Dörte Niegebüll * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) - Frau Irma Schulze * ''Kat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete Haagen
Margarete Haagen (29 November 1889 – 19 November 1966) was a German stage and film actress. Haagen appeared in over a hundred films during her career, generally in character roles. She specialised in playing good-natured elderly ladies. Following the Second World War, she appeared in several rubble films, such as ''In Those Days'' (1947).Ă“ Dochartaigh & Schönfeld p.121 During the 1950s, she often appeared in heimatfilm and costume film A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and sw ...s. Partial filmography References Bibliography * Ă“ Dochartaigh, PĂłl & Schönfeld, Christiane. ''Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture After 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity''. Camden House, 2013. * Shandley, Robert. ''Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
