The Higher Command
| The Higher Command | |
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| Directed by | Gerhard Lamprecht |
| Written by | Kurt Kluge Karl Lerbs Philipp Lothar Mayring |
| Produced by | Bruno Duday |
| Starring | Lil Dagover Karl Ludwig Diehl Heli Finkenzeller Friedrich Kayßler |
| Cinematography | Robert Baberske Curt Courant |
| Edited by | Milo Harbich |
| Music by | Werner Eisbrenner Hermann Schulenburg |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 30 December 1935 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
The Higher Command (German: Der höhere Befehl) is a 1935 German historical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Lil Dagover, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Heli Finkenzeller. During the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian army officer assists a British diplomat to construct an alliance to defeat Napoleon's France.[1]
It was produced around the time of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement when the German government were still optimistic about forming an alliance with the British and saw the film as a way of recalling the historic Anglo-Prussian partnership in liberating Europe from Napoleon.[2] The film was praised by the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as "a national and engrossing film".[3]
Partial cast
- Lil Dagover as Madame Martin
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Rittmeister von Droste
- Heli Finkenzeller as Käte Traß
- Friedrich Kayßler as General
- Eduard von Winterstein as Major
- Aribert Wäscher as Advokat Menecke
- Hans Leibelt as Bürgermeister Stappenbeck
- Hans Mierendorff as Earl of Beckhurst
- Gertrud de Lalsky as Majorin Traß
- Karl Dannemann as Wenzel Lukas, Bursche
- Siegfried Schürenberg as Lord Beckhurst
- Günther Ballier as Premierleutnant von Bodenheim
- Johannes Bergfeldt as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
- Gertrud Wolle as Frau Barth
- Walter Schramm-Duncker as Florian, Kutscher
- Heinz Könecke as Leutnant Eckartsberg
- Friedrich Franz Stampe as Wachtmeister Krim
- Arnim Suessenguth as Kreisgerichtsdirektor Barth
- Till Klockow as Tochter Barth
- Otti Dietze as Hotelwirtin
- Walter von Allwoerden as Vertauter des Earls
- Bertold Reissig as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
- Robert Forsch as Apotheker Riggert
- Karl Hannemann as Holzhändler Miesling
- Leopold von Ledebur as Offizier
- Theodor Loos as Meneckes Mitarbeiter
- Werner Pledath as Kammerpräsident
- Volker von Collande as Bürger
- Claire Reigbert as Dame beim Empfang
References
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
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