Männer, Meer und Stürme 1942
Short film using material from the 1930 documentary "Windjammer und Janmaaten".

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Of the little tree which wished for different leaves 1940    star_border 4.3
A short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1939    star_border 5.8

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Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm 1933
The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.

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Chicago – A Metropolitan in the Making 1931
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.

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Bookkeeper Kremke 1930    star_border 8
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.

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Zeugen aus grosser Zeit 1928
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.

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