''Drei Unteroffiziere'' (''Three Sergeants'') is a 1939 German film.
Made soon before the outbreak of the Second World War, the film - as its name suggests - depicts the lives of three German army sergeants. While the plot concentrates on the soldier characters' complicated love affairs rather than their battlefield exploits, it does extol camaraderie among soldiers - a staple theme of Nazi propaganda. The film concludes with the protagonists overcoming amorous jealousies which threatened to divide them, and eagerly embarking on a dangerous military task. This theme is well reflected in the film's poster, in whose foreground the three in uniform face their commanding officer while on the background appears the actress Gerda for whose love they had competed with each other.
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, ''Drei Unteroffiziere'' was included in the list of forbidden films, and nowadays its screening is only allowed for "special educational purposes".
Cast
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Albert Hehn as Unteroffizier Erich Rauscher
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Fritz Genschow
Fritz Genschow (15 May 1905 – 21 June 1977) was a German actor, film director and screenwriter.
Selected filmography
* ''Hands Up, Eddy Polo'' (1929) - Russenphilipp
* ''Beyond the Street'' (1929) - Der Arbeitsloser / The Unemployed man
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as Unteroffizier Fritz Kohlhammer
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Wilhelm König Wilhelm König (born in Vienna) was an Austrian archaeologist and painter.
A painter by profession, in 1931, König was elected assistant to the German leader of the Baghdad Antiquity Administration with the title of a "Direktor". At the excavatio ...
as Unteroffizier Struwe
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Wilhelm Althaus as Hauptmann Gruber
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Heinz Engelmann
Heinz Engelmann (1911–1996) was a German film actor. He was married to the actress Gertrud Meyen.
Selected filmography
* '' D III 88'' (1939)
* '' Drei Unteroffiziere'' (1939)
* ''Congo Express'' (1939)
* ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940)
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as Leutnant Strehl
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Wolfgang Staudte as Hauptfeldwebel Kern
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Ruth Hellberg as Gerda Cyrus
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Peter Anders as Operasinger
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Günther Ballier
Günther Ballier (18 October 1900 – 20 April 1980) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1933 and 1975.
Selected filmography
* '' The Country Schoolmaster'' (1933)
* ''What Am I Without You'' ( ...
as Soldat der 3. Kompanie
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Josef Gindorf as Schütze der 3. Kompanie
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Malte Jäger as Schütze Hermannsfeld
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Christian Kayßler
Christian Friedrich Kayssler, commonly spelled Kayßler (14 June 1898 – 10 March 1944), was a German stage and film actor. He was the son of the actor Friedrich Kayßler. He appeared in 14 films before dying in an Allied bombing raid on Berlin ...
as Dr. Lauterbach, Kapellmeister
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Otto Klopsch as Ehemaliger Soldat, Gast in der "Grünen Erbse"
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Erwin Laurenz as Soldat der 3. Kompanie
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Guenther Markert as Ein Gast im Café
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Hermann Meyer-Falkow as Ein Kollege Gerdas
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Luise Morland
Louise or Luise may refer to:
* Louise (given name)
Arts Songs
* "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005
* "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984
* "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013
* "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929
*"Louise", by Clan of ...
as Frau Werner, Gerdas Hauswirtin
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Hermann Pfeiffer as Lohmann, Hilfsregisseur
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Waldemar Potier
Waldemar, Valdemar or Woldemar is an Old High German given name. It consists of the elements ''wald-'' "power", "brightness" and ''-mar'' "fame".
The name is considered the equivalent of the Slavic name Vladimir, Volodymyr, Uladzimir or Włod ...
as unknown
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Ferry Reich
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as Schütze Hofacker
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Herbert Scholz as unknown
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, (9 December 19153 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the op ...
as Carmen in den Theaterszenen
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Günther Treptow as Don José in den Theaterszenen
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Ingeborg von Kusserow
Ingeborg von Kusserow (28 January 1919 – 14 April 2014) was a German film actress.
Biography
Kusserow was born in Wollstein, Province of Posen, Germany (today Wolsztyn, Poland).
She starred in Nazi propaganda films during the Third Reich, w ...
as Lisbeth, Telefonistin
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Eduard Wandrey as Preysing in den Theaterszenen
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Claire Winter as Lotte, Verkäuferin
See also
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List of films made in the Third Reich
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Nazism and cinema
Nazism created an elaborate system of propaganda, which made use of the new technologies of the 20th century, including cinema. Nazism courted the masses by the means of slogans that were aimed directly at the instincts and emotions of the peop ...
External links
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*Allmovi
review*Contemporary ''New York Times'
1930s German-language films
1939 films
Films of Nazi Germany
German black-and-white films
German drama films
1939 drama films
1930s German films
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