White Slaves (1937)

Original title

Weiße Sklaven

Directed by

Karl Anton

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 51m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An anti-Soviet propaganda film set during the Russian Revolution. It follows events on a battleship and is meant to counter the classic film Battleship Potemkin.

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What happens

White Slaves (German: Weisse Sklaven) is a 1937 German film directed by Karl Anton. It is also known by the longer title Panzerkreuzer Sebastopol: "Weisse Sklaven" (Battleship Sevastopol: "White Slaves") and was later re-released as Rote Bestien ("Red Beasts"). An anti-Soviet propaganda film from the Nazi era, set during the Russian Revolution, the film was designed as a response to Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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