The Higher Command

For the British film, see The High Command.
The Higher Command
Directed byGerhard Lamprecht
Written by
Produced byBruno Duday
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byMilo Harbich
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 30 December 1935 (1935-12-30)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

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. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was shot at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

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.[1] The film was praised by the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as "a national and engrossing film".[2]

Synopsis

During the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian army officer assists a British diplomat to construct an alliance to defeat Napoleon's France.[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Kreimeier p. 277–278
  2. ^ Kreimeier p. 278
  3. ^ Kreimeier p. 277

Bibliography

  • Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.


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