Hände hoch (1942)
In this Nazi propaganda film about the Hitler Youth, young German boys at a Hitler Youth recreation camp in Slovakia find themselves bored and irritated when bad weather confines them to their quarters. Things brighten up when the police inform them that a pair of escaped convicts are in the area, and the boys determine to catch them.
- Date of release
- 1942-10-22
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alfred Weidenmann
Casting
Interesting facts
Hände hoch! is a 1942 German Nazi propaganda film directed and written by Alfred Weidenmann. The film portrays life in a Kinderlandverschickung (KLV) camp for evacuated German children in Slovakia during World War II. A scholarly study of cinematographer Emil Schünemann describes the film as a Hitler Youth drama shot in occupied Slovakia and commissioned for the DFG and the NSDAP’s film propaganda apparatus.
Production
Hände hoch! was produced by the DFG, and filmed in occupied Slovakia, with cinematography by Emil Schünemann.
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