The Eleven Schill Officers (1932)

Original title

Die elf Schill'schen Offiziere

Directed by

Rudolf Meinert

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film is about a failed Prussian uprising against French occupation in 1809. It follows eleven officers who are executed after the revolt. It shows their fate after the rebellion led by Ferdinand von Schill.

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What happens

The Eleven Schill Officers (German: Die elf Schillschen Offiziere) is a 1932 German historical film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Friedrich Kayßler, Hertha Thiele, and Heinz Klingenberg. It was a remake of a 1926 silent film of the same name which had also been directed by Meinert. The film depicts the failed 1809 uprising of Prussian soldiers led by Ferdinand von Schill against the occupying French. It focuses in particular on eleven of Schill's officers, who were executed by the French at Wesel. The film was a Prussian film, part of a wider trend of German historical films made during the Weimar Era and set in the Napoleonic Era. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and on location in Stralsund on the Baltic. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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