Above All Else in the World
Directed by: Karl Ritter
Written by: Felix Lützkendorf and Karl Ritter
Produced by: Karl Ritter
Cinematography: Werner Krien
Edited by: Gottfried Ritter
Music by: Herbert Windt
Production company: UFA
Distributed by: UFA
Release date: 21 March 1941
Running time: 85 minutes
Country: National Socialist Germany
Language: German
Starring:
Paul Hartmann: Otl. Steinhart
Hannes Stelzer: Hans Wiegand
Fritz Kampers: Fritz Möbius
Carl Raddatz: Carl Wiegand
Oskar Sima: Leo Samek
Maria Bard: Madeleine LaRoche
Berta Drews: Anna Möbius
Carsta Löck: Erika Möbius
Marina von Ditmar: Brigitte
Joachim Brennecke: Willy Möbius
Karl John: Olt. Hassencamp
Josef Dahmen: Uffz. Weber
Georg Thomalla: Uffz. Krause
Herbert A.E. Böhme: Kapitän Hansen
Wilhelm König: Funker Boysen
Karl Haubenreißer: Sally Nürnberg
Andrews Engelmann: Capt. John Stanley
Hans Baumann: Robert Brown
Ernst Sattler: Rainthaler
Lutz Götz: Hofer
Albert Janscheck: Reindl
Marianne Straub: Walburga
Peter Elsholtz: Dr. v. Krisis
Kunibert Gensichen: Reg.-Ass. Glockenburg
Eva Tinschmann: Oberschwester Isolde
Oscar Sabo: Friedrich Wilhelm Hoppe
Gerhard Dammann: Siemens-Werkmeister
Beppo Brem: Putzenlechner
Hermann Gunther: Elsässischer Bürgermeister
Günther Polensen: Flieger-Leutnant Nacke
Plot:
Various episodes show the fate of Germans abroad who are imprisoned after the outbreak of World War II. One is Fritz Möbius, a German employed in the Siemens factories, who is arrested in Paris. The journalist Hans Wiegand, who is arrested at the border, as well as an entire Tyrolean folk music ensemble, which is deported to London despite the declaration of its director “we are not Germans, we are Tyroleans”. On the high seas, the German tanker “Elmshorn” receives orders to call at a neutral port because of the outbreak of war. As this does not succeed, the crew sinks their own ship so that it does not fall into the hands of the enemy. The film is supplemented with newsreel-style depictions of the German advance on land and in the air. The resistance of Germans living abroad in so-called “emigrant legions” is also thematized.
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Über alles in der Welt (1941)
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