Enemies (1940)
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The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
- Date of release
- 1940-11-07
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Viktor Tourjansky
Casting
- Brigitte Horney — Anna
- Willy Birgel — Keith
- Iván Petrovich — Jan
- Carl Wery — Martin
- Reinhold Lütjohann — Wegner
- Gerd Høst — Marianne Wegner
- Arthur Fritz Eugens — Paul Wegner
- Nicolas Koline — Andreas
- Hedwig Wangel — Liska
- Hannes Keppler — Hans Martin
- Karl-Heinz Peters — Antek
- Beppo Brem — Wegereit
Interesting facts
Enemies is a 1940 German drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel and Reinhold Lütjohann. The film was a Nazi propaganda work, attacking Poland which Germany had invaded the year before. The film's sets were designed by Herbert Hochreiter, Alfred Metscher and Julius von Borsody.
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