„The National-Socialist spirit and ethos of the young Luftwaffe eagles of the sky!“
„Terrifically good with magical aerial photography! „– Joseph Goebbels
Directed by: Karl Ritter
Screenplay by: Karl Ritter and Felix Lützkendorf
Edited by: Conrad von Molo
Music by: Herbert Windt
Production company: UFA
Release date: 27 June 1941
Running time: 99 mins
Country: German Reich
Language: German
Budget: 1,961,000 RM
Box office: 3.18 million RM
Starring:
Carl Raddatz: Captain Heinz Bork
Hannes Stelzer: First Lieutenant Hans Wilde
Ernst von Klipstein: First Lieutenant “Patzer” von Bomberg
Albert Hehn: First Lieutenant Hesse
Herbert Wilk: First Lieutenant Günter Schwarz
O.E. Hasse: Senior physician Dr. Gregorius
Karl John: First Lieutenant Lothar Loos
Else Knott: Nurse Ursula
Marina von Ditmar: Young Frenchwoman
Egon Müller-Franken: First Lieutenant Jordan
Günther Markert: First Lieutenant Hellmers
Josef Dahmen: Sergeant Traugott
Erich Stelmecke: Sergeant Rochus
Georg Thomalla: Sergeant Matz
Heinz Wemper: Sergeant Heinze
Lutz Götz: Staff Sergeant Niederegger
Beppo Brem: Sergeant Major Putzenlechner
Fritz Wagner: Sergeant Franz
Karl Münch: Radio operator
Adolf Fischer: Sergeant Fritz
Johannes Schütz: Lieutenant “Küken” Prack
Lili Schoenborn-Anspach: Old Frenchwoman (as Lilli Schönborn)
Ethel Reschke: Room girl
Plot:
Director Karl Ritter was one of the most successful propaganda filmmakers of the Third Reich, and his Stukas premiered at the height of German victories in June, 1941. The film was a huge success, and the ‘Stuka Song’ sung by the young pilots at the end of the film became wildly popular across Germany in its own right. Stukas, combining actual war footage, special effects, and rousing music, portrays a squadron of young Luftwaffe pilots fighting the British and French on the western front in late 1940. Filmed during the Battle of France, Stukas’ many combat scenes include the British retreat at Dunkirk, alongside what Joseph Goebbels in his diaries called ‘magical aerial photography.’ Ritter, himself a Major in the Luftwaffe, produced in Stukas a film celebrating the love of battle, comradeship, a boisterous enthusiasm for flying, and the self–sacrifice which epitomized the stereotypical National Socialist warrior. After the war, the Soviets demanded that Ritter be indicted for war crimes for having ‘systematically poisoned German youth’ through films such as this one. Stukas is a quintessential Ritter film: action–filled, episodic and fast–moving, with a first–class ensemble of German actors.
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