Underplayed Gems

Ewiger Wald (1936)

Ewiger Wald poster
Directed by
Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski, Hanns Springer
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
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This film shows the history of Germany from the Neolithic period to the Nazi era through the life of forests. It links the destiny of the woods with the German people.

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What happens

Ewiger Wald is a 1936 German film directed by Hanns Springer and Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski. The film's international English title was Enchanted Forest. Commissioned by Alfred Rosenberg's cultural organization Militant League for German Culture in 1934 under the working title Deutscher Wald–Deutsches Schicksal (German Forest – German Destiny), the feature-length movie premiered in Munich in 1936. Intended as cinematic proof for the shared destiny of the German woods and the German people beyond the vicissitudes of history, it portrayed a perfect symbiosis of an eternal forest and a likewise eternal people firmly rooted in it between Neolithic and National Socialist times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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