• Source: Shoulder Arms (1939 film)

      • Shoulder Arms (German: Das Gewehr über) is a 1939 German drama film directed by Jürgen von Alten and starring F.W. Schröder-Schrom, Rolf Moebius and Rudi Godden. It was based on a novel by Wolfgang Marken. The film's German title refers to a word of command in the German drill book.
      A German emigrant to Australia becomes concerned that his son has been too strongly influenced by the democratic, permissive attitudes of the country and decides to send him back to Germany for military service. While his son at first resents and resists his new lifestyle, he is eventually converted to the cause of Nazi Germany.
      The film was made as a piece of propaganda to support the policies of the Nazi regime. It was one of a growing number of films of the late 1930s that were hostile towards life in the British Empire on the eve of the Second World War.


      Cast


      F.W. Schröder-Schrom Hartwig sen.
      Rolf Möbius as Paul Hartwig
      Rudi Godden as Gestütaufseher Charlie Kühne
      Carsta Löck as Lotte
      Hilde Schneider as Hühnerfarmbesitzerin Trude Schmidt
      Wolfgang Staudte as Unteroffizier Schmidt
      Georg H. Schnell as Großkaufmann Thomson
      Charlott Daudert as Evelyne Thomson
      Leopold von Ledebur as General A. D. Henning
      Wilhelm Althaus as Hauptmann Wehnert
      Ernst Bader as Leutnant Stolle
      Walter Bechmann as Sekretär Schmitz
      Horst Birr as Schütze Jupp Derksen
      Adolf Fischer as Unteroffizier Schmidt
      Walter Gross as Reporter des 'Blankenheimer Tageblatt'
      Hans Jöckel as Schütze Hermann Lutz
      Hans Reinhard Knitsch as Gefreiter Hellermann
      Franz Kossak as Oberfeldwebel Grosse
      Viktor Carter
      Bernhard Caspar
      Gerdi Gerdt
      Käthe Jöken-König
      Erwin Laurenz
      Trude Lehmann
      Benno Mueller
      Hellmuth Passarge
      Klaus Pohl
      Martin Rickelt
      Bert Schmidt-Maris
      Hans Schneider
      Waldemar Tenscher
      Georg Völkel
      Herbert Asmis
      Heinz Berghaus


      Production


      Shoulder Arms was directed by Jürgen von Alten and produced by Germania-Film.


      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


      Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.


      External links


      Shoulder Arms at IMDb

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