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      • A German Robinson Crusoe (German: Ein Robinson) is a 1940 German drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Herbert A.E. Böhme, Marieluise Claudius, and Claus Clausen. Written by Arnold Fanck and Rolf Meyer, the film is a modern-day Robinson Crusoe story about a man so angry about the post-World War I conditions in Weimar Germany that he voluntarily goes to live on a desert island. The film was shot partly on location in South America.


      Plot


      During World War I, the German cruiser SMS Dresden is attacked by British ships off the coast of Chile. The crew manage to abandon ship before it sinks. They make their way to an isolated island where they are taken prisoner. After spending three years in custody, the sailors manage to escape and make their way back to Germany, intending to continue fighting for their Fatherland. When they arrive, however, they encounter a different Germany from the one they left behind—one where they are ridiculed and attacked by mutineers.
      One of the returning crew, Carl Ohlse, leaves Weimar Germany and returns to the island where he had been held prisoner for three years, determined to live out the rest of his life as a Robinson Crusoe. Some time later, he hears a radio report that describes how things have improved in Germany during the 1930s. Later, when the new SMS Dresden passes the island, he makes his way to the ship and is taken aboard by his new respectful comrades.


      Cast


      Herbert A.E. Böhme as Carl Ohlsen
      Marieluise Claudius as Antje
      Claus Clausen as Fritz Grothe
      Oskar Marion as captain
      Malte Jäger as officer
      Wilhelm P. Krüger as Pagels
      Otto Kronburger as commander
      Wolf Dietrich as officer
      Ludwig Schmid-Wildy as sailor
      Leopold Kerscher as sailor
      Martin Rickelt as sailor Peter
      Georg Völkel as 1. officer
      Hans Kühlewein as Obermaat
      Charly Berger as staff surgeon
      Günther Polensen as sailor
      Hans-Joachim Fanck as little Peter


      Production


      A German Robinson Crusoe was directed by Arnold Fanck.


      Release


      It was banned from being shown in Germany by the Allied High Commission after World War II.


      References




      Works cited


      Kelson, John (1996). Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions held in Zonal Film Archives of Film Section, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany, (BE) (2 ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0948911190.


      Further reading


      Rentschler, Eric (1996). The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-57640-7.
      Richards, Jeffrey (1973). Visions of Yesterday. London: Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN 978-0-7100-7576-5.
      Welch, David (2001). Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933–1945. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-520-4.


      External links


      A German Robinson Crusoe at IMDb

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