The Private's Job (1937)
Unternehmen Michael
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
- Date of release
- 1937-09-06
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Karl Ritter
Casting
- Heinrich George — Kommandierender General
- Mathias Wieman — Major zur Linden
- Willy Birgel — Major Graf Schellenberg
- Hannes Stelzer — Lt. Prinz Erxburg
- Beppo Brem — Gefreiter Kollermann
- Karl John — Leutnant Hassenkamp
Interesting facts
Unternehmen Michael is a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter, the first of three films about the First World War which he made during the period when the Third Reich was rearming.
Production and themes
Shooting took place between 12 May and late June 1937, with interiors shot at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg.
Unternehmen Michael is the first of three 'soldier films' set during the First World War which Ritter made in 1936–38, when Nazi Germany was rearming in preparation for renewed war. Ritter himself described his war films as "pictorial armo[u]red car[s]", in contrast to entertainment films. It was a Staatsauftragsfilm; it was commissioned by the Ministry of Propaganda.
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