Uncle Krüger

Uncle Krüger (1941)

Ohm Krüger

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War.

Date of release
1941-01-02
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (9)
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
History, War
Director
Hans Steinhoff

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Film of the Nation

Ohm Krüger is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of major propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the United Kingdom. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War.

Production

The first outline for Ohm Krüger was begun in September 1940 by Hans Steinhoff and Harald Bratt. The film had very high production costs of 5.477 million ℛℳ (equivalent to $23,513,098 in 2021) to produce. At the time, Joseph Goebbels had been encouraging film-makers to have lower production costs, but he made an exception for Ohm Krüger, declaring it to be reichswichtig (important for the State) due to its propagandistic and artistic value; in hi…

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