Tannenberg (film)
Tannenberg | |
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Directed by | Heinz Paul |
Written by | Paul Oskar Höcker Heinz Paul |
Produced by | |
Starring | Hans Stüwe Käthe Haack Hertha von Walther |
Cinematography | Georg Bruckbauer Viktor Gluck |
Music by | Ernst Erich Buder |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 8 September 1932 |
Running time | 105 min. |
Countries | Germany Switzerland |
Language | German |
Budget | 500,000 RM (equivalent to 2 million 2017 €) |
Tannenberg is a 1932 Swiss–German war film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Stüwe, Käthe Haack and . The film is based on the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg during the First World War.[1] It focuses on a German landowner Captan von Arndt and his family.
Production[]
It was shot on location in East Prussia and at UFA's Babelsberg Studios during the summer of 1932.[2] It cost over half a million reichsmarks to make and employed 8,000 people. The film focused on a notable German victory and was in sharp contrast to recent anti-war films such as Westfront 1918. Tannenberg served as a national symbol in Germany, and was re-issued in 1936 during the Nazi era.[3] The Producers made an effort to make the film as historically accurate as possible, and portrayed the Russian commanders respectfully.[4] It was due to be released on 26 August 1932, the eighteenth anniversary of the battle, but was delayed by the censors acting on a request from the German President Paul von Hindenburg who was unhappy with his portrayal in the film and the premiere was pushed back until certain scenes had been cut.[5]
Cast[]
- Hans Stüwe - Gutsbesitzer Rittmeister von Arndt
- Käthe Haack - Grete von Arndt
- - Inge von Arndt
- Hertha von Walther - Schwägerin Sonja
- Erika Dannhoff - Schwägerin Lita
- - Lisbeth, Arndt, Magd
- Karl Klöckner - Gutsverwalter Puchheiten
- Franziska Kinz - Gutsfrau Frau Puchheiten
- Rudolf Klicks - Fritz Puchheiten
- Alfred Döderlein - Leutnant Schmidz
- Wolfgang Staudte - Husar Franke
- - Paul von Hindenburg
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- - Oberstleutnant Hoffmann
- - Generalmajor Grünert
- Alfred Gerasch - Generalmajor Graf von Waldensee
- - Hauptmann Fleischmann von Theißruck
- - General von Scholz
- Georg H. Schnell - General der Kavallerie Shilinski
- Sigurd Lohde - General der Kavallerie Samsonow
- Carl Auen - Generalmajor Postowski
- - Oberst Gerwe
- Aruth Wartan - Stabstrompeter Kupschik
- Fritz Arno Wagner - Militärattaché Oberst Knox
- Ernst Pröckl - General der Artillerie Martos
- - General der Infanterie Kljujew
- Fritz Alberti - Generalleutnant Mingin
- Valy Arnheim - Oberstleutnant Fjedorow
- Viktor de Kowa - Rittmeister Fürst Wolgoff
- Friedrich Ettel - Kosakenwachtmeister
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Kester, Bernadette. Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933). Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
- Von der Goltz, Anna. Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis. Oxford University Press, 2009.
External links[]
- Tannenberg at IMDb
- German-language films
- 1932 films
- 1930s war films
- German war films
- Swiss war films
- German films
- Swiss films
- Films directed by Heinz Paul
- World War I films based on actual events
- World War I films set on the Eastern Front
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Cultural depictions of Erich Ludendorff
- Cultural depictions of Paul von Hindenburg
- German black-and-white films
- Films shot at Babelsberg Studios