Homecoming (1941)

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A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.

Date of release
1941-10-10
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Gustav Ucicky

Casting

Interesting facts

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

Homecoming is a 1941 Nazi German anti-Polish propaganda film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Filled with heavy-handed caricature, it justifies extermination of Poles with a depiction of relentless persecution of ethnic Germans, who escape death only because of the German invasion.

Production

Gustav Ucicky and Gerhard Menzel were inspired to make Homecoming after receiving accounts of Volhynian Germans coming to Germany from Soviet-occupied Poland. Ucicky and Menzel previously made Refugees.

The set locations were chosen in late August and early September 1940 by a Wien-Film delegation, which toured occupied Poland in the company of Lieutenant Wilhelm Hosenfeld, an Abwehr operative at the Warsaw garrison. Production started in September 1940, and cost 4.02 million ℛℳ (equivalent to $17,258,107 in 2021).

The indoor shots ran from 2 January to the middle of July 1941 in the Wien-Film studios at the Rosenhügel in Liesing, at Sievering Studios and the Schönbrunn Palace gardens in Vienna. The external shots took place between February and June 1941 in Polish Chorzele and Ortelsburg (Szczytno) in East Prussia.

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