''The Degenhardts'' (german: Die Degenhardts) is a 1944 German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Werner Klingler
Karl Adolf Kurt Werner Klingler (23 October 1903 – 23 June 1972) was a German film director and actor. He directed 29 films between 1936 and 1968. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Berlin, Germany.
Early life
Klingler acquired his firs ...
and starring
Heinrich George
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor.
Career Weimar Republic
George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ...
,
Ernst Schröder and
Gunnar Möller
Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He was most successful as a leading man in German cinema of the 1950s, especially w ...
. Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of
Second World War
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culminating in the
Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 by the
Royal Air Force
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.
The film was part of a cycle of
home front
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films produced in Germany during the war.
The film was intended to fan
anti-British
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Argen ...
sentiment and prepare Germans psychologically for the destruction of their cities by Allied bombing raids and invasions.
[O'Brien p. 145] It premiered in Lübeck on 6 July 1944.
Cast
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Heinrich George
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George (), was a German stage and film actor.
Career Weimar Republic
George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ...
as Karl Degenhardt
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Ernst Schröder as Jochem Degenhardt
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Gunnar Möller
Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and film actor. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He was most successful as a leading man in German cinema of the 1950s, especially w ...
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Ernst Legal
Ernst Otto Eduard Legal (2 May 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German actor and opera director of Berlin State Opera.
Born on 2 May 1881 in Schlieben in the Prussian Province of Saxony, he was the father of the actress Marga Legal. He died in Berli ...
*
Renée Stobrawa
Renée Stobrawa (born Renate Stobrawa; 13 October 1897 in Dresden – 16 August 1971 in Tegernsee) was a German screenwriter and film actress.
Partial filmography
* ''The Mistress and her Servant'' (1929) - Frau Matjunke
* '' Melody of the Worl ...
*
Wolfgang Lukschy
Wolfgang Lukschy (19 October 1905 – 10 July 1983 in Berlin) was a German actor and dubber. He performed in theater, film and television.
He made over 75 film and television appearances between 1940 and 1979. Possibly his most noted performanc ...
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Heinz Klingenberg
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Knut Hartwig
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Knut Hartwig is the father of Luis Hartwig
Luis Hartwig (born ...
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Günther Körner Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gun ...
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Walter Bechmann
Walter may refer to:
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* Walter (name), both a surname and a given name
* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
*
Robert Forsch
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*
Herwart Grosse
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William Huch
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*
Hilde Jansen
Hilde may refer to:
*Hilde (given name)
* ''Hilde'' (film), a 2009 German biopic film
* MV ''Hilde'', a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker
*Tom Hilde (born 1987), Norwegian ski jumper
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*Hilde (Soulcalibur), a character in the ''Soul'' series ...
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Karl Kemper Karl may refer to:
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* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austri ...
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Werner Kepich
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Alfred Maack
Alfred Maack (5 April 1882 – 14 February 1961) was a German stage and film actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 1958.
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1961 ...
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Ilse Petri
Ilse Petri (20 March 1918 – 3 February 2018) was a German stage, television and film actress.
Partial filmography
* ''April, April!'' (1935)
* ''Das Mädchen vom Moorhof'' (1935)
* ''Königstiger'' (1935)
* '' The Abduction of the Sabine Women' ...
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Werner Pledath
Werner Pledath (26 April 1898 – 6 December 1965) was a German actor who appeared in many films during a lengthy career. He generally played supporting roles such as in '' Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932).Youngkin p.465 Pledath specialized in pla ...
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Trude Tandar
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Erich Ziegel
Erich Ziegel (26 August 1876 – 30 November 1950) was a German theatre director and actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1920 to 1950. He was the founder of the Hamburg Kammerspiele.
Selected filmography
References
External ...
References
Bibliography
* O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. ''Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich''. Camden House, 2006.
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1944 films
German drama films
Films of Nazi Germany
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Werner Klingler
World War II films made in wartime
Nazi propaganda films
Films set on the home front during World War II
German black-and-white films
Tobis Film films
1944 drama films
1940s German films
1930s German films
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