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Morgenrot Directed by Vernon Sewell
Gustav UcickyProduced by Gunther Stapenhorst Written by Gerhard Menzel Starring Rudolf Forster
Fritz Genschow
Paul Westermeier
Camilla SpiraMusic by Herbert Windt Distributed by Universum Film AG (UFa) Release date(s) 2 February 1933 Running time 75 minutes Country Weimar Republic
Nazi GermanyLanguage German Morgenrot is a 1933 German submarine film set during World War I.
Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. [1]
The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. Dawn was the U.S. title.
It was filmed in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, the first German submarine movie made after World War I.
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Motifs
The film offered a heroization of death, with the captain explicitly stating that Germans may not know how to live, but they know how to die.[2] In a central scene, the captain of the submarine offers to his men that he and the first officer will go down with the ship in order that they may escape; they refuse on the grounds it will be all or none of them, and the captain glorifies the chance to die with such men, a theme that commonly appeared in Nazi-era films.[3]
The first officer, having learned that the woman he loves is in love with captain, not himself, and another sailor commit suicide to save the others -- a common way to resolve love triangles in Nazi films, where the heroic death saves the man out from failure.[4]
On the other hand, the mother of one man refuses to rejoice over her son because of the suffering of war - a theme that would not appear in Nazi film.[5]
Awards
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awarded it with Best Foreign Film for 1933.[6]
References
- ^ filmportal.de
- ^ Jay W. Baird, The Mythical World of Nazi War Propaganda, p 8 ISBN 0-8166-0741-9
- ^ Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema p20 ISBN 0-02-570230-0
- ^ Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema p20-1 ISBN 0-02-570230-0
- ^ Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema p21 ISBN 0-02-570230-0
- ^ "New York Times: Morgenrot (1933)". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/139915/Morgenrot/overview. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
External links
- Morgenrot at the Internet Movie Database
- Morgenrot at AllRovi
The films of Vernon Sewell 1930s Morgenrot (1933)1940s The Silver Fleet (1943) • The World Owes Me a Living (1945) • Latin Quarter (1945) • The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947) • Uneasy Terms (1948) • The Jack of Diamonds (1949)1950s The Dark Light (1951) • The Black Widow (1951) • The Floating Dutchman (1952) • Ghost Ship (1952) • Counterspy (1953) • Dangerous Voyage (1954) • Radio Cab Murder (1954) • Where There's a Will (1955) • Johnny, You're Wanted (1956) • Soho Incident (1956) • Home and Away (1956) • Rogue's Yarn (1957) • Battle of the V-1 (1958) • Wrong Number (1959)1960s Urge to Kill (1960) • House of Mystery (1961) • The Wind of Change (1961) • The Man in the Back Seat (1961) • Strongroom (1962) • A Matter of Choice (1963) • Strictly for the Birds (1963) • Some May Live (1967) • The Blood Beast Terror (1968) • Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)1970s Burke & Hare (1972)Categories:- 1933 films
- German films
- German-language films
- U-boat fiction
- Black-and-white films
- Films of the Third Reich
- Films of Weimar Germany
- Films directed by Gustav Ucicky
- Films directed by Vernon Sewell
- World War I submarine films
- War film stubs
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