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Shoulder Arms (1939 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Shoulder Arms' (German: 'Das Gewehr ber') is a 1939 German drama film directed by Jrgen von Alten and starring F.W. Schrder-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.Richards p.325
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. Schrder-Schrom Hartwig sen.
* Rolf Mbius as Paul Hartwig
* Rudi Godden as Gesttaufseher Charlie Khne
* Carsta Lck as Lotte
* Hilde Schneider as Hhnerfarmbesitzerin Trude Schmidt
* Wolfgang Staudte as Unteroffizier Schmidt
* Georg H. Schnell as Grokaufmann 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 Sekretr Schmitz
* Horst Birr as Schtze Jupp Derksen
* Adolf Fischer as Unteroffizier Schmidt
* Walter Gross as Reporter des 'Blankenheimer Tageblatt'
* Hans Jckel as Schtze Hermann Lutz
* Hans Reinhard Knitsch as Gefreiter Hellermann
* Franz Kossak as Oberfeldwebel Grosse
* Viktor Carter
* Bernhard Caspar
* Gerdi Gerdt
* Kthe Jken-Knig
* Erwin Laurenz
* Trude Lehmann
* Benno Mueller
* Hellmuth Passarge
* Klaus Pohl
* Martin Rickelt
* Bert Schmidt-Maris
* Hans Schneider
* Waldemar Tenscher
* Georg Vlkel
* Herbert Asmis
* Heinz Berghaus
References
Bibliography
* Richards, Jeffrey. 'Visions of Yesterday'. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
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