The Degenhardts () is a 1944 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Heinrich George, Ernst Schröder and Gunnar Möller. It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin and on location in Stralsund, Lüneburg and Lübeck. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Lück and Fritz Maurischat.
Plot
Karl Degenhardt, the patriarch of a family in Lübeck, leads his wife and five children through the opening stages of Second World War, culminating in the bombing of the city on 28 March 1942 by the Royal Air Force.
Background
The film was part of a cycle of
home front films produced in Germany during the war.
The film was intended to fan
Anglophobic sentiment and prepare Germans psychologically for the destruction of their cities by Allied bombing raids and invasions.
[O'Brien p. 145] It premiered in Lübeck on 6 July 1944.
Cast
Bibliography
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O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Camden House, 2006.
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