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Refugees (German: Flüchtlinge) is the 1933 German drama film, directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy, and Eugen Klöpfer. It depicts Volga German refugees persecuted by the Bolsheviks on the Sino-Russian border in Manchuria in 1928.
The screenplay was written by Gerhard Menzel and was based on his own novel of the same title. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios with sets designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. A separate French-language version At the End of the World was also produced, with Käthe von Nagy appearing alongside a different cast.
It was the first movie to win the state prize, and Goebbels praised it as among those films that, while they did not explicitly cite National Socialist principles, nevertheless embodied its spirit, a new film reflecting the ideal of their national revolution.
The refugees are rescued by a heroic German leader much like the Führer; the symbolism is obviously intended to emulate Adolf Hitler. He is disgusted by "November Germany", and devotes himself to the ideal of "true Germany". He off-handedly disposes of some refugees as worthless, and demands complete obedience from all others. The death of a boy deeply devoted to him moves him, as dying for a cause is something he would wish for himself, in keeping with Nazi glorification of heroic death.
Their Communist persecutors are portrayed simply as brutal murderers, typical of works prior to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (and again after its breach). The film was shown for some time after the pact, owing to bureaucratic oversight, complicating the efforts of Nazi propaganda.
The movie is mostly set in the city of Harbin, in what was at the time the Republic of China.
Cast
Hans Albers as Arneth
Käthe von Nagy as Kristja Laudy
Eugen Klöpfer as Bernhard Laudy
Andrews Engelmann as The Commissar
Fritz Genschow as Hermann, refugee-engineer
Karl Rainer as Peter, teenage refugee
Franziska Kinz as pregnant woman
Ida Wüst as Frau Megele
Veit Harlan as Mannlinger
Karl Meixner as Pappel
Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Siberian
Friedrich Gnaß as Hussar
Hans Hermann Schaufuss as Zweig
Josef Dahmen as man with red hair
Carsta Löck as Frau Hellerle
Production
Gerhard Menzel wrote a screenplay based on his own novel after writing the screenplay for Morgenrot. The film was directed by Gustav Ucicky. The cinematography was done by Fritz Arno Wagner and the soundtrack was composed by Herbert Windt and Ernst Erich Buder.
Release
The film was approved by the censors on 1 December 1933, and premiered on 3 December. It premiered in the United States at the 79th Street Theater in New York.
References
Works cited
Waldman, Harry (2008). Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786438617.
Welch, David (1983). Propaganda and the German Cinema: 1933-1945. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860645204.
Bibliography
Giesen, Rolf. Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2003.
External links
Refugees at IMDb
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- Günther Stapenhorst
- Jerman Nazi
- Friedrich Gnaß
- Gerhard Menzel
- Bangsa Asiria
- Hans Albers
- Benito Mussolini
- Pendudukan Jerman oleh Sekutu
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- New York (negara bagian)
- Refugees (1933 film)
- Refugee (disambiguation)
- 1933 in film
- Jewish refugees from Nazism
- International Rescue Committee
- Paragraph 175 (film)
- Soviet famine of 1930–1933
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Kazakh famine of 1930–1933
- At the End of the World (1934 film)
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