Ewiger Wald
| Ewiger Wald | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hanns Springer Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski |
| Written by | Albert Graf von Pestalozza (writer) Carl Maria Holzapfel (poems[clarification needed]) |
| Produced by | Albert Graf von Pestalozza (producer) |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Sepp Allgeier Werner Bohne Otto Ewald Wolf Hart Guido Seeber A.O. Weitzenberg Bernhard Wentzel |
| Edited by | Arnfried Heyne |
| Music by | Wolfgang Zeller |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes 88 minutes (Germany) |
| Country | Nazi Germany |
| Language | German |
Ewiger Wald is a 1936 German film directed by Hanns Springer and Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski. The film's international English title was Enchanted Forest.
Commissioned by
National Socialist
times.
Plot summary
In accordance with Rosenberg's anti-
Teutonic Knights, facing the German Peasants' War, being chopped up by war and industry, and being humiliated by black soldiers brought into Germany by the French occupation army. The years of the Weimar Republic appeared to be disastrous for people and forest alike. The film culminated in a National Socialist May Day celebration filmed at the Berlin Lustgarten.[1]
Cast
- Günther Hadank (voice)
- Heinz Herkommer (voice)
- Paul Klinger (voice)
- Lothar Körner (voice)
- Aribert Mog
- Kurt Wieschala (voice)
References
- ^ Pierre Aycoberry The Nazi Question, p11 Pantheon Books New York 1981
Further reading
- Meder,Thomas. “Die Deutschen als Wald-Volk. Der Kulturfilm EWIGER WALD (1936).” in: Il bosco nella cultura europea tra realtá e immaginario, ed. Guili Liebman Parrinello, 105-129. Rom: Bulzoni, 2002.
- Wilke, Sabine. “'Verrottet, verkommen, von fremder Rasse durchsetzt'. The Colonial Trope as Subtext of the Nazi-'Kulturfilm' EWIGER WALD (1936).” German Studies Review 24 (2001): 353-376.
- Zechner, Johannes. “Wald, Volksgemeinschaft und Geschichte: Die Parallelisierung natürlicher und sozialer Ordnungen im NSKG-Kulturfilm EWIGER WALD (1936).” in: Kulturfilm im „Dritten Reich“, ed. Ramón Reichert, 109-118. Wien: Synema, 2006.
- Zechner, Johannes. “Politicized Timber: The 'German Forest' and the Nature of the Nation 1800-1945.” The Brock Review 11.2 (2011): 19-32 Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- Ewiger Wald at IMDb
- Ewiger Wald is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
