The Endless Road

The Endless Road (German:Der Unendliche Weg) is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Eva Immermann and Hedwig Wangel. It portrays the life of Friedrich List, a German who emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century. Unusually the film was overtly pro-American at a time when the two countries were at war. This was possibly because the Nazi leadership hoped to shortly join the Americans in an anti-Soviet alliance and wanted to encourage warmer feelings between the two nations. Another pro-American (and anti-British) film about Thomas Paine was planned, but never made.^[1]

It was made by Bavaria Film, one of the four major German film companies of the era. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Sohnle.

Cast

• Eugen Klöpfer as Friedrich List
• Eva Immermann as Mila List, seine Tochter
• Hedwig Wangel as Susan Harper
• Alice Treff as Helen Harper
• Kurt Müller-Graf as von Runge
• Friedrich Domin as Fürst Metternich
• Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as General Jackson
• Lisa Helwig as Karoline List
• Viktor Afritsch as Hofrat Gentz
• Joseph Offenbach as Seybold
• Adolf Gondrell as Ritter
• Günther Hadank as König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preussen
• Gustav Waldau as König Wilhelm I. von Würtemberg
• Walter Holten as Kommandant von Hohenasperg
• Herbert Hübner as Handelsgerichtsbeisitzender
• Oskar Höcker as Würtembergischer Kammerpräsident
• Fritz Reiff as Preussischer Minister
• Walter Buhse
• Heinz Burkart
• Wolfgang Dohnberg
• Peter Doming
• Karl Graumann
• Karl Hanft
• Hannes Keppler
• Herbert Kroll
• Else Kündinger
• Walter Lantzsch
• Eduard Loibner
• Philipp Manning
• Emil Matousek
• Sepp Nigg
• Julius Riedmueller
• Sonja Gerda Scholz
• F.W. Schröder-Schrom
• Otz Tollen
• Anni Trautner
• Adalbert von Cortens

References

1. ↑ Hull p.261

Bibliography

• Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945. University of California Press, 1969.

External links

• The Endless Road on IMDb