Ordered to Love (1961)
Lebensborn
Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."
- Date of release
- 1961-01-13
- TMDB
- 3.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Werner Klingler
Casting
- Maria Perschy — Doris Korff
- Joachim Hansen — Oberlt. Klaus Steinbach
- Harry Meyen — Hauptsturmführer Dr. Hagen
- Marisa Mell — Erika Meuring
- Emmerich Schrenk — Obersturmbandführer Meyer-Westroff
- Joachim Mock — Hauptsturmführer Kempe
- Gert Günther Hoffmann — Oberlt. Mertens
- Waldemar Tepel — SS Sturmführer Hellmich
- Rosemarie Kirstein — Lotte
- Renate Küster — Marlene
- Hellmut Lange — Oberscharführer Niedermeyer
- Horst Keitel — Oberlt. Adameit
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