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Ride to Freedom (1937)

Ride to Freedom poster
Original title
Ritt in die Freiheit
Directed by
Karl Hartl
Genre
war film
Country
Nazi Germany, Germany
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Polish cavalry officer in the 1830s initially hesitates to fight the Russian army which leads to his comrades being killed. He later redeems himself by dying in battle.

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What happens

Ride to Freedom (German: Ritt in die Freiheit) is a 1937 German historical war film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film is set in the 1830s during Poland's November Uprising against the Russian Empire. It portrays the rehabilitation of a Polish cavalry officer whose initial reluctance to engage the enemy leads to the death of his comrades, but who later dies fighting bravely. The film was made by German's leading studio UFA, with interiors shot at the Babelsberg Studios. UFA received co-operation from the Polish War Ministry who supplied five regiments of Zaslaw Uhlans for the filming of battle scenes that took place around Ostroleka in Poland. The Polish ambassador to Germany Józef Lipski attended the film's premiere at the Palast-am-Zoo in Berlin on 14 January 1937. Around the same time Germany and Poland, future enemies in the Second World War, co-produced two films, namely Augustus the Strong and Adventure in Warsaw. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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