Frisians in Peril
Directed by: Peter Hagen
Produced by: Alfred Bittins
Hermann Schmidt
Written by: Werner Kortwich
Music by: Walter Gronostay
Cinematography: Sepp Allgeier
Edited by: Wolfgang Becker
Production company: Delta-Film
Release date: 19 November 1935
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: National-Socialist German Reich
Language: German
Starring:
Friedrich Kayßler: Jürgen Wagner
Helene Fehdmer: Kathrin Wagner
Valéry Inkijinoff: Commissioner Tschernoff
Jessie Vihrog: The girl Mette
Hermann Schomberg: Klaus Niegebüll
Ilse Fürstenberg: Dörte Niegebüll
Kai Möller: Hauke Peters
Fritz Hoopts: Ontje Ibs
Martha Ziegler: Wiebke Detlevsen
Gertrud Boll: Telse Detlevsen
Maria Koppenhöfer: Frau Winkler
Marianne Simson: Hilde Winkler
Franz Stein: Christian Kröger
Aribert Grimmer: Commissioner Krappien
Background
Frisians in Peril (German: Friesennot) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Peter Hagen and starring Friedrich Kayßler, Jessie Vihrog and Valéry Inkijinoff. Made for Nazi propaganda purposes, it concerns a village of ethnic Frisians in Russia.
The film’s sets were designed by the art directors Robert A. Dietrich and Bernhard Schwidewski. Location shooting took place around Bispingen. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo.
The film has also been known as Dorf im roten Sturm (Germany; reissue title) and Frisions [sic] in Distress (USA).
Plot
Soviet authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans, most of whose ancestors originated in the Frisian Islands, with taxes and other oppression.
After Mette, a half-Russian, half-Frisian woman, becomes the girlfriend of Kommissar Tschernoff, the Frisians murder her and throw her body in a swamp.
Open violence breaks out and all of the Red Army soldiers stationed nearby are killed by the villagers. They then set fire to their village and flee.
Outstanding film! Thanks for posting.
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