Hans Westmar (1933)
1933 · Feature film · 92 min · dir. Franz Wenzler
- biographical film
- propaganda film
Synopsis
This Nazi propaganda film purports to show the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Franz Wenzler
- Writer
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Studio
- Volksdeutsche Film
- Released
- 1933-12-13
- Running time
- 92 minutes
Cast & crew
- Franz Wenzler Director
- Hans Evers
- Gertrud de Lalsky
Heinz Salfner- Arthur Schröder
Paul Wegener
Carla Bartheel
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Carl Auen
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Interesting-captures the mood of the times · templep3 · 2021-03-22
interesting film which captures the intense political passions of both left and right. the fanaticism brilliantly reflected in the glint of the character hans westmar. this certainly is propaganda but like all propaganda has elements of the truth in it. we can be sure that most communists or nazis were not like the caricatures weve all grown up with. many would have been idealists who just wanted what they thought would be a better society be it left or right.
