''The Degenhardts'' (german: Die Degenhardts) is a 1944 German

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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

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. Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in

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, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of

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culminating in the Bombing of Lübeck on 28 March 1942 by the

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. The film was part of a cycle of

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films produced in Germany during the war. The film was intended to fan

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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

as Karl Degenhardt * Ernst Schröder as Jochem Degenhardt *

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* Heinz Klingenberg *

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* Herwart Grosse *

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* Werner Kepich *

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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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* Trude Tandar *

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References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 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 {{1940s-Germany-film-stub