Kolberg (1945)
3.2 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
"Kolberg" was Joseph Goebbels’ last and most defiant cinematic manifesto. Filmed over late 1943 and 1944, it drew upon the historical resistance of East Prussian townsmen against Napoleon in 1807 in arguing its case for total war against the Allies. Its bone-jarring climax, showing Kolberg bombarded into rubble and flames by French artillery fire, unmistakably evokes Allied bombing raids across Germany at the time. Even as the Nazi regime was entering its last phases, it devoted lavish resources to staging Kolberg’s spectacular battle scenes, detonating tons of explosives and diverting thousands of Wehrmacht soldiers from the front. Released amidst the chaos of early 1945. 'Kolberg' was shown in a handful of Germany’s still intact movie houses; today this apotheosis of the Nazi cinema survives as National Socialism’s final statement to posterity. - Actors:
- Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Horst Caspar, Gustav Diessl, Paul Wegener, Otto Wernicke, Charles Schauten, Claus Clausen, Irene von Meyendorff, Heinz Lausch, Kurt Meisel, Paul Bildt, Jakob Tiedtke, Hans Hermann Schaufuß, Franz Schafheitlin, Herbert Klatt, Theo Shall, André Saint-Germain, Margarete Schön, Inge Drexel
- Aka:
- Burning Hearts
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance
- Countries:
- Germany
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