S.A.-Mann Brand (1933)

IN HONOUR OF THE 85-th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY OF THE ARYAN AWAKENING – 30.01.1933

Directed: Franz Seitz

Produced: Franz Seitz

Written: Curt J. Braun

Music: Toni Thoms

Edited: Gottlieb Madl

Release dates: 1933

Running time: 94 minutes

Country: Germany

Language: German

Starring:

Heinz Klingenberg: Fritz Brand

Wera Liessem: Anni Baumann

Rolf Wenkhaus: Erich Lohner

Hedda Lembach: Margaret Lohner

Otto Wernicke: Herr Brand

Elise Aulinger: Frau Brand

Joe Stöckel: Anton Huber

Helma Rückert: Genoveva Huber

Max Weydner: Alexandr Turow

Philipp Weichand: SA-Wirt

Fritz Greiner: Herr Baumann

Magda Lena: Frau Baumann

Rudolf Frank: Neuberg

Manfred Koempel: Pilot, himself

Theo Kaspar: himself

Wastl Witt: Wirt "Café Diana"

Rudolf Kunig: Stadtrat Rolat

Plot:

S.A.-Mann Brand (Storm Trooper Brand) presents the story of a truck driver, Fritz Brand, who joins the National-Socialist S.A. (Sturmabteilung) to defend Germany against communist subversion orchestrated from Moscow. He persuades his social circle of the imminent danger and the need to support Hitler in the federal election.

The Brand and Baum families live in a Munich tenement. Father Brand, a Social Democrat, scorns his son (Fritz) for joining the the National-Socialist S.A. (Storm Detachment). Anni Bauman is, like her parents, a member of the Communist Party. Nevertheless, she is attracted to Fritz Brand, and when she is given an assignment to trap him, she lets him in on the party's schemes. As the National-Socialists are raiding a Communist cache, Fritz is wounded in crossfire. On his hospital bed, father and son come back together, and Anni opens up to Fritz. Following his discharge, the shock troops march through the residential quarter, and in the midst of it a colleague of Brand Lohner is shot by a Communist. The film ends with the electoral victory of the National-Socialists and the arrest of their political enemies.