Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm

Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm 1933

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The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.

1933

Bookkeeper Kremke

Bookkeeper Kremke 1930

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In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.

1930

Zeugen aus grosser Zeit

Zeugen aus grosser Zeit 1928

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Memorial service of the Reichswehr on Magdeburg Cathedral Square for the fallen of the First World War, with a flag company and a field service.

1928

Chicago – A Metropolitan in the Making

Chicago – A Metropolitan in the Making 1931

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Heinrich Hauser, born 1901 in Prussia, filmed Chicago long before Hollywood discovered the authentic showplace. He went there at the height of the Great Depression, in 1931. It was only him and his camera. He manages without stars. He is not interested in the world of make-believe: no impressionist images, no experimental city poem, no travelogue or image film, no posed footage, certainly not one of the usual culture fi lms. The city was all that counted: the Naked City and the people living here. Hauser was obliged to Neue Sachlichkeit: New Objectivity – and to his aspirations and ambition as an artist.

1931