List of German films of 1933–45
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This is a list of German films of 1933–1945, the period of Nazi Germany, between Adolf Hitler's assumption of power (30 January 1933) and Karl Dönitz's surrender at the end of World War II (8 May 1945).
While not as highly regarded as the Weimar Republic-era films, the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, both as historical documents of one of the most important and disturbing periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit. While some of them are popular only within the Neo-Nazi subculture, comedies starring Heinz Rühmann rank among the favourites of all Germans, and the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl have been influential, though controversial.
A total of 1,084 feature films were shown in cinemas in Nazi Germany.[1]
1933
- Note: This year could count both as part of the Weimar and Nazi eras
1934
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Carmen | Lotte Reiniger | Animation[35] | ||
La Chanson de l'adieu | Albert Valentin, Géza von Bolváry | Janine Crispin, Jean Servais, Lucienne Lemarchand | German-French co-production[36] | |
Die Englische Heirat | Reinhold Schünzel | Adele Sandrock, Fritz Odemar, Georg Alexander | [37] | |
Es tut sich was um Mitternacht | Robert A. Stemmle | Leopoldine Konstantin, Dolly Haas, Karl Ludwig Schreiber | [38] | |
Ferien vom Ich | Hans Deppe | Hermann Speelmans, Carola Höhn, Georg H. Schnell | [39] | |
Der Firmling | Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt | [40] | ||
Die Freundin eines großen Mannes | Paul Wegener | Käthe von Nagy, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Jessie Vihrog | [41] | |
Fräulein Frau | Carl Boese | Paul Hörbiger, Jenny Jugo, Olga Limburg | [42] | |
Das Gestohlene Herz | Lotte Reiniger | Animated short[43] | ||
Gold | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Michael Bohnen, Brigitte Helm | Science fiction, drama | [44][45] |
Hanneles Himmelfahrt | Thea von Harbou | Inge Landgut, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Käte Haack | [46] | |
Heinz in the Moon | Robert A. Stemmle | Heinz Rühmann, Annemarie Sörensen, Rudolf Platte | Comedy | [47] |
Heldentum and Todeskampf unserer Emden | Louis Ralph | Louis Ralph, Wilhelm Kaiser-Heyl, Werner Fuetterer | [48] | |
Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich | Géza von Bolváry | I Don't Know You and I Love You | ||
Im Schallplattenladen | Hans H. Zerlett | Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt | slapstick/comedy | one of Valentin's classics based on his idea; In the Record (LP) Shop |
Just Once a Great Lady | Gerhard Lamprecht | Käthe von Nagy, Wolf Albach-Retty | Comedy | |
Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn | Hasso Preis | Love and the First Railroad | ||
Liebe, Tod und Teufel | Heinz Hilpert, Reinhart Steinbicker | Love, Death and Devil | ||
Ein Mann will nach Deutschland | Paul Wegener | A Man wants to get to Germany | ||
Mother and Child | Hans Steinhoff | Henny Porten, Peter Voß | Drama | |
Muratti greift ein | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | ||
The Prodigal Son | Luis Trenker | Luis Trenker, Maria Andergast | Drama | |
Rivalen der Luft | Frank Wysbar | Claus Clausen, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Hilde Gebühr, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Gross, Guzzi Lantschner, Werner Stock, Franz Zimmermann, Volker von Collande, Hans Henninger, Florian Zeise-Gött, Wolff von Wernsdorf, Otto Arndt, M. Bohlan, Alfred Böhm, Hans Deutschmann, Edgar Dittmar, Heini Dittmar, Wolf Hirth, Franz Orthbandt, Hanna Reitsch, Fritz Stamer | Drama | Propaganda film disguised as gliding flight drama |
Der Schimmelreiter | Hans Deppe, Curt Oertel | Marianne Hoppe, Mathias Wieman | classic literature/drama | The Rider on the White Horse |
So ein Flegel | Robert A. Stemmle | Heinz Rühmann, Ellen Frank, Inge Conradi, Annemarie Sorensen, Jakob Tiedtke, Else Bötticher, Oskar Sima, Franz Weber, Karl Platen, Rudolf Platte, Henriette Steinmann, Maria Seidler, Erwin van Roy, Walter Steinweg, Anita Mey, Evelyn Roberti | What a Lout | |
Um das Menschenrecht | Hans Zoberlein | Hans Schlenck, Kurt Holm, Ernst Martens, Beppo Brem, Ludwig Ten Cloot, Hans Erich Pfleger, Paul Schaidler, Franz Loskarn, Leopold Kerscher, Werner Scharf, Trude Haefelin, Katja Specht, Ludwig Körösy, Hans Pössenbacher, Ludwig Schmid-Wildy | For the Rights of Man; Anti-Communism propaganda paying homage to the Freikorps | |
Was bin ich ohne Dich | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | What Am I Without You? | ||
William Tell | Heinz Paul | Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt | Historical | Co-production with Switzerland |
A Woman with Power of Attorney | Arzén von Cserépy | Gerda Maurus, Ernst Dumcke | Drama |
1935
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Achte mir auf Gakeki | Alwin Elling | Hermann Braun, Erich Fiedler, Heinz Flügge, Baby Gray, Rudolf Klicks, Georg Kroning, Herbert Schmidt | Short | |
Alles um eine Frau | Alfred Abel | All for a Woman | ||
Amphitryon | Reinhold Schünzel | Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Käthe Gold, Fita Benkhoff, Adele Sandrock | Musical | Based on Greek mythology |
April, April! | Douglas Sirk | |||
Der alte und der junge König | Hans Steinhoff | The Old and the Young King; The story of Friedrich Wilhelm I | ||
Le Domino vert | Henri Decoin, Herbert Selpin | |||
Dr. Todt - Berufung und Werk | 36 minute film about Dr. Fritz Todt and the Siegfried Line | |||
Einer zuviel an Bord | Gerhard Lamprecht | One Too Many on Board | ||
Ein Falscher Fuffziger | Carl Boese | A Two-Face | ||
Das Erbe | Carl Hartmann | Short | The Inheritance, propaganda for euthanasia and sterilization | |
Forget Me Not | Augusto Genina | Beniamino Gigli, Peter Bosse | Drama | Remade in Britain the following year |
Friesennot | Peter Hagen | Propaganda | Frisians in Peril; Distributed by the National Socialist State Propaganda Directorate; anti-Communism film | |
Henker, Frauen und Soldaten | Johannes Meyer | Hangmen, Women and Soldiers | ||
The Higher Command | Gerhard Lamprecht | Lil Dagover, Karl Ludwig Diehl | Historical | |
Ich liebe alle Frauen | Carl Lamac | I Love All Women | ||
Im Aufmarschgebiet der abessinischen Armee | Martin Rikli | In the Staging Ground of the Abyssinian Army; Related to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (?) | ||
La Kermesse héroïque | Jacques Feyder | |||
Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann | Carl Lamac, Hans H. Zerlett | Knockout - A Young Girl, a Younger Man | ||
Komposition in Blau | Oskar Fischinger | Animation | Composition in Blue; In Gasparcolor | |
Mazurka | Willi Forst | |||
Das Mädchen Johanna | Gustav Ucicky | That Girl Joanna | ||
Papageno | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | ||
Punks Kommt aus Amerika | Karlheinz Martin | Attila Hörbiger, Lien Deyers, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Sybille Schmitz, Henry Lorenzen, Oskar Sima, Erika Glässner, Georges Boulanger, Maria Meissner, Josef Sieber, Ekkehard Arendt, Ernst Behmer, Hermann Braun, Louis Brody, Adolf Fischer | Punks Come from America | |
Das Stahltier | Willy Zielke | Documentary | The Steel Animal | |
Tag der Freiheit: Unsere Wehrmacht | Leni Riefenstahl | Propaganda | Day of Freedom - Our Wehrmacht; propaganda film about the 1935 Nazi Party Congress | |
Triumph des Willens | Leni Riefenstahl | Propaganda | Triumph of the Will; propaganda film about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress | |
Trouble Backstairs | Veit Harlan | Henny Porten, Else Elster | Comedy | |
Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers | Heinz Paul | Ernst Udet, Jürgen Ohlsen, Käthe Haack, Cornelius Booth, Leonie Duval | The Miracle of Flight: The Film of a German Flyer, German boy who lost his pilot father in World War I meets and bonds with his hero, ace Ernst Udet. This was Ohlsen's last film. |
1936
1937
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Alles Leben ist Kampf | Herbert Gerdes | Propaganda documentary | All Life Is Struggle; advocates involuntary sterilization of the disabled and those with hereditary diseases. Produced by the Racial Political Office of the NSDAP (Berlin). | |
Adventure in Warsaw | Carl Boese | Georg Alexander, Paul Klinger | Comedy | German-Polish co-production. Polish version A Diplomatic Wife also released. |
The Broken Jug | Gustav Ucicky | Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kayßler, Thea von Harbou | Historical comedy | |
Don't Promise Me Anything | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Luise Ullrich, Viktor de Kowa | Comedy | |
Festliches Nürnberg | Hans Weidemann | Festive Nuremberg; 21 minute compilation of footage from the 1936 and 37 Nazi Party Congresses | ||
Die Ganz großen Torheiten | Carl Froelich | All the Great Foolerie | ||
Gasparone | Georg Jacoby | Starring Marika Rökk | ||
Gewitterflug zu Claudia | Erich Waschneck | Stormy Flight to Claudia | ||
La Habanera | Douglas Sirk | Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Julia Serda, Paul Bildt, Edwin Jürgensen, Werner Finck | Drama | Zarah Leander falls in love with a Puerto Rican landowner |
Der Herrscher | Veit Harlan | The Ruler; film extoling leadership principle; featuring Emil Jannings | ||
Juden ohne Maske | Walter Böttcher and Leo von der Schmiede | The Jews Unmasked; 36 min Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film | ||
Kapriolen | Gustaf Gründgens | romantic comedy with newly-wed Gustaf Gründgens and Marianne Hoppe | ||
Land of Love | Reinhold Schünzel | Albert Matterstock, Gusti Huber | Romance | |
Man spricht über Jacqueline | Werner Hochbaum | People are talking about Jacqueline | ||
Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Marieluise Claudius, Hansi Knoteck, Hilde Weissner, Siegfried Schürenberg | Comedic mystery | The Man Who was Sherlock Holmes |
Madame Bovary | Gerhard Lamprecht | Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher | Historical | |
Mädchen für alles | Carl Boese | A Girl for Everything | ||
Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister | My Son the Minister | |||
The Model Husband | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach | Comedy | |
Mussolini in Deutschland | Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler | documentary propaganda | Mussolini in Germany; 31-minute film about Benito Mussolini's September 1937 visit to Munich | |
Opfer der Vergangenheit. Die Sünde wider Blut und Rasse. | Gernot Bock-Stieber | Anonymous victims of various illness. | Euthanasia propaganda film | Victims of the Past. The Sin against Blood and Race. This film was shown in every cinema in Germany. |
Die Postkutsche | This was the first experimental short movie in Agfacolor. It was shot on 35 mm reversal film. | |||
Ride to Freedom | Karl Hartl | Willy Birgel, Ursula Grabley, Viktor Staal, Hansi Knoteck, Edwin Jürgensen, Werner Schott, Heinz von Cleve, Hans Reinhard Knitsch, Berthold Ebbecke, Hermann Braun, Rudolf Schündler, Aribert Grimmer, Clemens Hasse | Historical | Set in 1831 Poland. |
The Seven Ravens | Ferdinand and Hermann Diehl | Animated, fantasy | ||
Sherlock Holmes und die graue Dame | Erich Engels | Sherlock Holmes and the Gray Lady | ||
Die Tochter des Samurai | Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami | The Daughter of the Samurai aka Atarashiki tsuchi; German-Japanese co-production | ||
To New Shores | Douglas Sirk | Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel | Melodrama | |
Truxa | Hans H. Zerlett | La Jana, Hannes Stelzer | Drama | |
Unternehmen Michael | Karl Ritter | Heinrich George, Mathias Wieman, Willy Birgel, Hannes Stelzer, Heinz Welzel, Paul Otto, Otto Wernicke, Malte Jäger, Beppo Brem, Josef Dahmen, Josef Renner | Operation Michael a/k/a The Private's Job | |
Weltraumschiff 1 startet... | Anton Kutter | Science fiction | ||
Wenn Frauen schweigen | Fritz Kirchhoff | When Women Remain Silent | ||
Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering | Augusto Genina | Magda Schneider, Iván Petrovich | Drama |
1938
1939
1940
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Achtung! Feind hört mit! | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Kirsten Heiberg, Rolf Weih, Rene Deltgen, Lotte Koch | Beware! The Enemy Is Listening! | |
Bismarck | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | |||
Baumeisterin Chemie | Hans Schipulle | Short Documentary | 17 minutes | |
Deutsche Arbeitsstätten | Svend Noldan | German Work Places; 10 min documentary | ||
Deutsche Panzer | Walter Ruttmann | German Tanks; 13 min documentary about Panzers | ||
Deutsche Waffenschmieden | Walter Ruttmann | German Weaponry; 12 min documentary | ||
Nightclub Hostess | Albert Valentin | Nightclub Hostess | ||
Der Ewige Jude | Fritz Hippler | The Eternal Jew; Anti-Semitic documentary propaganda film | ||
Fahrt ins Leben | Bernd Hofmann | Journey Into Life; Nazi film about 3 Merchant Navy Cadets. | ||
Feinde | Viktor Tourjansky | Enemies; Film justifying the German Invasion of Poland | ||
Feldzug in Polen | Fritz Hippler | Campaign in Poland; documentary propaganda film about the 1939 invasion of Poland | ||
Feuertaufe | Baptism by Fire; propaganda film about Luftwaffe in the 1939 invasion of Poland | |||
Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies | Herbert Maisch | Friedrich Schiller - the Triumph of a Genius | ||
Der Fuchs von Glenarvon | Max W. Kimmich | Olga Tschechowa, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Ferdinand Marian, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Traudl Stark, Albert Florath, Lucie Höflich, Else von Möllendorff, Richard Häussler, Ellen Bang, Curt Lucas, Werner Hinz, Hermann Braun, Hans Mierendorff, Paul Otto, Hans Richter, Horst Birr, Peter Elsholtz, Aribert Mog, Hilde Körber, Friedrich Kayßler, Bruno Hübner, Joachim Pfaff, Karl Dannemann, Bernhard Goetzke, Karl Hannemann | The Fox of Glenarvon; pro-Irish film. | |
The Girl at the Reception | Gerhard Lamprecht | Magda Schneider, Richard Haussler | Drama | |
The Girl from Barnhelm | Hans Schweikart | Käthe Gold, Ewald Balser | Historical comedy | |
Das Herz der Königin | Carl Froelich | The Heart of the Queen starring Zarah Leander as Mary, Queen of Scots | ||
Indianer | Ernst R. Müller and Gerd Philipp | Documentary | Indians; 85 minute documentary | |
Jud Süß | Veit Harlan | The Jew Suss; dramatic anti-Semitic propaganda film | ||
Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 | Martin Rikli | Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign; documentary propaganda film about the Norwegian Campaign | ||
Kleider machen Leute | Helmut Käutner | based on the story by Swiss writer Gottfried Keller starring Heinz Rühmann and his wife Hertha Feiler | ||
Kora Terry | Georg Jacoby | |||
Der Marsch zum Führer | Unknown | The March to the Führer; documentary propaganda film about Hitler Youth March to Nazi Party Congress | ||
Operette | Willi Forst, Karl Hartl and Robert Naestelberger | |||
Der Postmeister | Gustav Ucicky | The Postmaster | ||
Rosen in Tirol | Géza von Bolváry | Roses in Tyrol | ||
Die Rothschilds | Erich Waschneck | The Rothschilds; anti-semitic dramatic propaganda film | ||
Stern von Rio | Karl Anton | Star of Rio | ||
Tierparadies Südamerika | Werner Buhre and K. Krieg | Documentary | Animal Paradise South America; 66 minutes in length. | |
Thüringen, das grüne Herz Deutschlands | J.C. Hartmann | Short Documentary | Thuringia: The Green Heart of Germany; 13 minute documentary | |
Unser Fräulein Doktor | Erich Engel | Our Woman Doctor | ||
Verwandte sind auch Menschen | Hans Deppe | Fritz Klaudius, Heinz Salfner, Else von Möllendorff, Ellen Bang, Hermann Braun, Margarete Kupfer, Oscar Sabo, Ernst Dumcke, Fritz Odemar, and Renée Stobrawa | Relatives Are People Too. | |
Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt | Heinz Tischmeyer | animation | Propaganda | |
Wunschkonzert | Eduard von Borsody | Request Concert; musical romance set at the 1936 Summer Olympics |
1941
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Above All Else in the World | Karl Ritter | Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer | Drama | |
Achte mir auf Gakeki | Alwin Elling | Hermann Braun | ||
Everything for Gloria | Carl Boese | Leo Slezak, Laura Solari | Romance | |
Annelie | Josef von Báky | Story of a heroic World War II German mother. | ||
Auf Wiedersehen, Franziska | Helmut Käutner | Goodbye, Franziska; film about a wife reminding her husband of his duty to go to war. | ||
Bunte Kriechtierwelt | Wolfram Junghans | The Colorful World of Animals that Crawl; nature documentary; in Agfacolor | ||
Carl Peters | Herbert Selpin | A film about the pioneer instilling nationalistic ideology into the plot. | ||
Clarissa | Gerhard Lamprecht | Sybille Schmitz, Gustav Fröhlich | Romance | |
Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten | Georg Jacoby | Women are better Diplomats; in Agfacolor | ||
Friedemann Bach | Traugott Müller | Gustav Gründgens, Leny Marenbach | Biopic | |
Der Gasmann | Carl Froelich | |||
Die Englische Krankheit | Kurt Stefan | The Sickness of Being English; 13 min documentary anti-British propaganda film | ||
Heimkehr | Gustav Ucicky | Homecoming; dramatic anti-Polish propaganda film | ||
Ich klage an | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | I Accuse You; pro-euthanasia propaganda film | ||
Immer nur Du | Karl Anton | Only Ever You; musical romantic comedy | ||
Jenny und der Herr im Frack | Paul Martin | Jenny and the Gentleman in Coattails; comedy; features brief nudity; involves philately (stamp collecting) | ||
Kampfgeschwader Lützow | Hans Bertram | Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler, Marietheres Angerpointner, Carsta Löck, Adolf Fischer, Horst Birr, Helmut vom Hofe, Peter Voß | Battle Squadron Lützow One of the last films made by Hermann Braun (1918-1945) prior to being drafted and killed in combat. | |
Kleine Mädchen-große Sorgen | Boleslaw Barlog | Hannelore Schroth, Geraldine Katt, Hermann Braun, Inge Burg, Dagny Servaes, Eva Prawitz, Fritz Odemar, Carsta Löck, Hans Brausewetter, and Roma Bahn | Comedy? | Little Girl—Very Worried One of the last films made by Hermann Braun (1918-1945) prior to being drafted and killed in combat. |
LAH Im Einsatz | LAH in Action; 39-minute propaganda film about 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | |||
Liebe ist zollfrei | E.W. Emo | comedy | ||
Mamma | Guido Brignone | Mother; German-Italian co-production | ||
Mein Leben für Irland | Max W. Kimmich | My Life for Ireland; dramatic anti-British propaganda film | ||
Menschen im Sturm | Fritz Peter Buch | Men in the Storm; propaganda film justifing the German annexation of northern Slovenia, dramatizing the "oppression" of the Volksdeutsch community there | ||
Ohm Krüger | Hans Steinhoff | about Paul Kruger, the South African leader in the Boer War; features Emil Jannings and Gustaf Gründgens; anti-British propaganda | ||
Quax, der Bruchpilot | Kurt Hoffmann | dramatic pro-Luftwaffe and anti-individualist film with propaganda tendencies starring Heinz Rühmann | ||
...reitet für Deutschland | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Riding for Germany; blacklisted film; director banned for 2 years by the Americans for this film about a tournament runner with blatant patriotic and nationalistic undertones. | ||
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub | Jürgen von Alten | Six Days of Home Leave | ||
Sieg im Westen | Svend Noldan | Victory in the West; documentary/propaganda film about Blitzkrieg in Western Europe | ||
Sowjetparadies | The Soviet Paradise, 14-minute anti-Soviet documentary propaganda film | |||
Spätrupp Hallgarten | Herbert Fredersdorf | Hallgarten Patrol; soldier's death propaganda. | ||
Stukas | Karl Ritter | pro-Luftwaffe propaganda film; "Stuka" was a slang term for a German dive bomber | ||
The Swedish Nightingale | Peter Paul Brauer | Ilse Werner, Karl Ludwig Diehl | Musical | |
U-Boote westwärts | Günther Rittau | Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Karl John, Clemens Hasse, Ilse Werner, Admiral Karl Dönitz as himself | Kriegsmarine recruiting and anti-British propaganda film | U-Boats Westward; about U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic |
Venus on Trial | Hans H. Zerlett | Hannes Stelzer, Hansi Knoteck | Drama | |
Vertigine | Guido Brignone | Tragödie einer Liebe; Broken Love; German-Italian co-production |
1942
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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5 June | Fritz Kirchhoff | Carl Raddatz, Joachim Brennecke | War | Banned by Joseph Goebbels in November 1942 for unspecified reasons. |
Andreas Schlüter | Herbert Maisch | A film about the sculptor Andreas Schlüter; subliminal Nazi propaganda throughout. | ||
Attack on Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen | Thriller | Anschlag auf Baku; anti-British propaganda. |
Beloved World | Emil Burri | Brigitte Horney, Willy Fritsch | Musical/Comedy | |
Berlin-Wie Es War | Berlin the Way it Was; 87 min documentary about pre-war Berlin | |||
Boote mit Flügeln | Nicholas Kaufmann | Documentary | 14 min documentary | |
Diesel | Gerhard Lamprecht | Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner | Biopic | |
Die Entlassung | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | The Dismissal; Sequel to Bismarck (1940); features Emil Jannings | ||
GPU | Karl Ritter | Anti-Communism propaganda. | ||
Die goldene Stadt | Veit Harlan | The Golden City; in Agfacolor | ||
Der Große König | Veit Harlan | Historical Drama | The Great King; historical drama about King Frederick the Great of Prussia | |
Die Große Liebe | Rolf Hansen | The Great Love; featuring Zarah Leander; highest grossing film of the Nazi era. | ||
Himmelhunde | Roger von Norman | Sky Dogs; about a young glider pilot who becomes a military pilot; targeted toward youths. | ||
Kleine Residenz | Hans H. Zerlett | |||
Männer, Meer und Stürme. Ein Film von der Romantik und dem Leben an Bord eines Segelschiffes | Heinrich Hauser and Hubert Schonger | Men, Sea and Storm: A Film of the Romance and the Life Onboard a Segelship; 18 min documentary about Kriegsmarine | ||
Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | |||
Rund um die Freiheitsstatue | 15-minute Anti-American propaganda film. aka Round the Statue of Liberty,Corruption of America | |||
Die Sache mit Styx | Karl Anton | |||
Die See ruft | Hans Fritz Köllner | Documentary | ||
Sprung in den Feind | Wilhelm Stöppler | 22-minute propaganda film, showing the invasion of the Netherlands. The bridge of Moerdijk is taken with Fallschirmjäger. | ||
Das Tapfere Schneiderlein | Hubert Schonger | |||
The Thing About Styx | Karl Anton | Laura Solari, Viktor de Kowa | Comedy/Crime | |
We Make Music | Helmut Käutner | Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa | Musical comedy | |
Wiener Blut | Willi Forst | Viennese Blood | ||
Zwei in einer großen Stadt | Volker von Zollende | Two in a Big City | ||
The Big Game (1942 film) | Robert A. Stemmle | Sports film | Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor |
1943
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Alltag zwischen Zechentürmen | Leo de Laforgue | 15 minute documentary | ||
Akrobat Schööön! | Wolfgang Staudte | |||
Asse zur See | Hermann Stöß | Documentary | ||
Das Bad auf der Tenne | Volker von Collande | In Agfacolor | ||
Circus Renz | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | René Deltgen, Paul Klinger | Drama | |
The Crew of the Dora | Karl Ritter | The Crew of the Dora | ||
Damals | Rolf Hansen | |||
Deutschland - Italien - Ungarn. Ein Boxländerkampf im Kriegsjahr 1942 | Germany-Italy-Hungary. Boxing Championships in war year 1942 | |||
Frauen sind keine Engel | Women Are Not Angels | |||
Geheimnis Tibet | H.A. Lettow and Ernst Schäfer | Secretive Tibet; documentary about SS expedition to Tibet; aka Lhasa-Lo - Die verbotene Stadt - Lhasa-Lo - The Lost City | ||
Germanin - Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat | Max W. Kimmich | Germanin - The Tale of a Colonial Deed; about a doctor in Germany's former African colonies | ||
Die Goldene Spinne | Erich Engels | The Golden Spider | ||
Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an | Kurt Hoffmann | I Entrust My Wife to You | ||
Immensee | Veit Harlan | In Agfacolor | ||
Junker der Waffen-SS | Young Men of the Armed SS | |||
Karneval der Liebe | Paul Martin | Carneval of Love | ||
Der Kleine Grenzverkehr | Hans Deppe | based on a short story by Erich Kästner | ||
Liebeskomödie | Theo Lingen | Love Comedy | ||
Love Premiere | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hans Söhnker, Kirsten Heiberg | Drama | |
Männer gegen Panzer | Men Against Tanks | |||
A Man with Principles? | Géza von Bolváry | Hans Söhnker, Elfie Mayerhofer | Comedy | |
Maske in Blau | Paul Martin | Mask in Blue | ||
Melody of a Great City | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Hilde Krahl, Werner Hinz | Musical | |
Münchhausen | Josef von Báky | In Agfacolor, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Ufa with impressive special effects; starring Hans Albers and Ilse Werner | ||
Paracelsus | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | |||
Romanze in Moll | Helmut Käutner | Drama | Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant starring Marianne Hoppe and Paul Dahlke | |
Titanic | Werner Klingler and Herbert Selpin | Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, E.F. Fürbringer, Karl Schönböck, Charlotte Thiele, Otto Wernicke, Franz Schafheitlin, Sepp Rist, Monika Burg, Jolly Bohnert, Fritz Böttger, Hermann Brix, Lieselott Klinger, Theodor Loos, and Karl Meixner | Propaganda | Disaster film casting a fictitious German officer on the RMS Titanic as the hero and the British as villains. |
Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie | Hans Fischerkoesen | Weather-beaten Melody; animation | ||
Josef Thorak, Werkstatt und Werk | Hans Cürlis and Arnold Fanck | A 14-minute film about Nazi sculptor Josef Thorak | ||
Die Wirtin zum Weißen Rößl | Karl Anton |
1944
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Arno Breker | Hans Cürlis and Arnold Fanck | 13 min documentary | ||
Atlantik-Wall | Arnold Fanck | 19-minute propaganda film about the Atlantic Wall | ||
The Black Robe | Fritz Peter Buch | Lotte Koch, Richard Haussler | Drama | |
The Buchholz Family | Carl Froelich | Henny Porten, Paul Westermeier | Drama | |
Das war mein Leben | Paul Martin | That Was My Life | ||
The Degenhardts | Werner Klingler | Heinrich George, Ernst Schröder | War/Drama | |
Engel mit dem Saitenspiel, Der | Heinz Rühmann | |||
Es fing so harmlos an | Theo Lingen | |||
Es lebe die Liebe | Erich Engel | |||
Feuerzangenbowle, Die | Helmut Weiss | Comedy | comedy with Heinz Rühmann in his most famous role as Hans Pfeiffer "with three fs" | |
Die Frau meiner Träume | Georg Jacoby | Woman of My Dreams In Agfacolor | ||
Die Goldene Gans | Lotte Reiniger | Animation | The Golden Goose | |
Große Freiheit Nr. 7 | Helmut Käutner | Große Freiheit [Great Freedom] is the name of a Hamburg street. Then censored Agfacolor film with Hans Albers | ||
I Need You | Hans Schweikart | Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel | Comedy | |
Junge Adler | Alfred Weidenmann | Young Eagles | ||
Kleine Muck, Der | Franz Fiedler | |||
Kleine Sommermelodie, Eine | Volker von Collande | A Little Summer Melodie | ||
Opfergang | Veit Harlan | In Agfacolor | ||
Orient-Express | Viktor Tourjansky | |||
Panorama | Monthly news human interest series; in color | |||
Scharfschütze in der Geländeausbildung | Sniper training film | |||
Der Schneemann | Hans Fischerkoesen | Animation in Agfacolor | The Snowman | |
Schrammeln | Géza von Bolváry | |||
Ein Schöner Tag | Philipp Lothar Mayring | A Beautiful Day | ||
Theresienstadt:Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt | Kurt Gerron | Propaganda film about how "well" the Jews were treated in concentration camps subtitled: The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City | ||
Vom Einsatz der Ordnungspolizei in allen Fronten des Krieges | On the Action of the Order Police in All Fronts of the War | |||
The Wedding Hotel | Carl Boese | Karin Hardt, René Deltgen | Comedy |
1945
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Anna Alt | Werner Klingler | Anneliese Uhlig, Will Quadflieg | Drama | |
Dumme Gänslein, Das | Hans Fischerkoesen | Animation | The Silly Little Goose | |
Das kleine Hofkonzert | Paul Verhoeven | The Little Court Concert; In Agfacolor | ||
Hochzeit im Korallenmeer | Horst von Möllendorff | Wedding in the Coral Sea | ||
Kolberg | Veit Harlan | propaganda film in Agfacolor | ||
Das Leben geht weiter | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Life Continues | ||
Shiva und die Galgenblume | Hans Georg Andres and Michaela Krützen | In Agfacolor | ||
Via Mala | Josef von Báky | Karin Hardt Carl Wery |
Melodrama | |
Unclassified
Note: The year of these films may be unknown or they may span multiple years.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Die Deutsche Wochenschau | The German Weekly Show; newsreel series | |||
Die Frontschau | Fritz Hippler | The Front Show; Series of technical films shown to soldiers before they were sent to the Eastern Front | ||
Uncompleted
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Das Ghetto | Documentary | Filmed in 1942, never finished; subject of the 2010 documentary A Film Unfinished | ||
Tiefland | Leni Riefenstahl | Filmed 1940-44 the movie was completed after World War II and released 1954 | ||
References
- ↑ Eric Rentschler: The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife, 1996, ISBN 978-0674576407.
- ↑ "Alle Machen mit". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Choral von Leuthen". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Deutsche Reichstag in Nürnberg". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Die Blume von Hawaii". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Flüchtlinge". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Gretel zieht das große Los". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Hans Westmar. Einer von vielen. Ein deutsches Schicksal aus dem Jahre 1929". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Ich und die Kaiserin". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ Brennan, Sandra. "Ich und Die Kaiserin". Allmovie. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Kleiner Mann - was nun?". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Liebelei". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Ein Lied geht um die Welt". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Lachende Erben". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Lachende Erben". Allmovie. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Morgenrot". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "S.A.-Mann Brand". Allmovie. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "SOS Eisberg". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "S.O.S. Iceberg". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Sieg des Glaubens". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Sieg des Glaubens". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- 1 2 "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ Legar, Patrick. "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse". Allmoive. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Tunnel". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Der Tunnel". Allmoive. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Viktor und Viktoria". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Was Frauen träumen". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ Erlewine, Iotis. "Was Frauen traeumen". Allmovie. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Zwei gute Kameraden". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Carmen". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Le chanson de l'adieu". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Die Englische Heirat". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Es tut sich was um Mitternacht". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Ferien vom Ich". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Der Firmling". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Die Freundin eines großen Mannes". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Fräulein Frau". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Das gestohlene Herz". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Gold". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Gold". Allmovie. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Hanneles Himmelfahrt". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Heinz im Mond". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Heldentum und Todeskampf unserer "Emden"". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
See also
- Nazism and cinema
- Department of Film (Nazi Germany)
- Cinema of Germany
- Reichsfilmarchiv
- Reichsfilmkammer
- List of films set in Berlin
- List of films made in France 1919-1940
- List of World War II films
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