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Excerpt from the German movie "Kolberg" (1945).
"Kolberg" is an example of the "pure war film". Compare with Mizoguchi's The Loyal 47 Ronin (1941-42); Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible (1943); Lewis Seiler, Guadalcanal Diary (1943); Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1944):
it is about war (the Franco
-Prussian war of 1806-07)
it shows men in combat
it is made during another war (WW2)
it is made for the war effort (propaganda).
To complete the filming, a top priority for Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, thousands of Wermacht soldiers were taken out of the front line to partecipate i
n the battle sequences of "Kolberg" and quickly sent back to fight (and die) against the upcoming Red Army.
Goebbels' sense that he was living in a film of the Nazi's own making. In April 1945 as Berlin was being encircled Goebbels spoke to his staff at the Propaganda Ministry about the spirit of re
sistance in the film "Kolberg" and predicted that an even more important historical film would one day be made about their final hours defending the Reich:
"Gentlemen, in a hundred years' time they will be showing another fine colour film describing the terrible days we are living through. Don't you
want to play a part in this film, to be brought back to life in a hundred years' time? Everybody now has a chance to choose the part which he will play in the film a hundred years hence. I can assure you that it will be a fine and elevating picture. And for the sake of this prospect it is worth sta
nding fast. Hold out now, so that a hundred years' hence the audience does not hoot and whistle when you appear on the screen."
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