The Higher Command

The Higher Command
The Higher Command
Directed by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Written by	; ; Philipp Lothar Mayring;
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Starring	Lil Dagover; Karl Ludwig Diehl; Heli Finkenzeller; Friedrich Kayßler;
Cinematography	Robert Baberske; Curt Courant;
Edited by	Milo Harbich
Music by	Werner Eisbrenner; ;
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	30 December 1935;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Higher Command (German: Der höhere Befehl) is a 1935 German historical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Lil Dagover, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Heli Finkenzeller. During the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian army officer assists a British diplomat to construct an alliance to defeat Napoleon's France.^[1]

It was produced around the time of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement when the German government were still optimistic about forming an alliance with the British and saw the film as a way of recalling the historic Anglo-Prussian partnership in liberating Europe from Napoleon.^[2] The film was praised by the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as "a national and engrossing film".^[3]

Partial cast[]

Lil Dagover as Madame Martin
Karl Ludwig Diehl as Rittmeister von Droste
Heli Finkenzeller as Käte Traß
Friedrich Kayßler as General
Eduard von Winterstein as Major
Aribert Wäscher as Advokat Menecke
Hans Leibelt as Bürgermeister Stappenbeck
Hans Mierendorff as Earl of Beckhurst
Gertrud de Lalsky as Majorin Traß
Karl Dannemann as Wenzel Lukas, Bursche
Siegfried Schürenberg as Lord Beckhurst
Günther Ballier as Premierleutnant von Bodenheim
as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
Gertrud Wolle as Frau Barth
as Florian, Kutscher
as Leutnant Eckartsberg
as Wachtmeister Krim
as Kreisgerichtsdirektor Barth
as Tochter Barth
as Hotelwirtin
as Vertauter des Earls
Bertold Reissig as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
Robert Forsch as Apotheker Riggert
Karl Hannemann as Holzhändler Miesling
Leopold von Ledebur as Offizier
Theodor Loos as Meneckes Mitarbeiter
Werner Pledath as Kammerpräsident
Volker von Collande as Bürger
as Dame beim Empfang

References[]

^ Kreimeier p. 277
^ Kreimeier p. 277–278
^ Kreimeier p. 278

Bibliography[]

Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

External links[]

The Higher Command at IMDb

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[1] Kreimeier p. 277

[2] Kreimeier p. 277–278

[3] Kreimeier p. 278

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