The Fox of Glenarvon (1940)

Original title

Der Fuchs von Glenarvon

Directed by

Max W. Kimmich

Genre

drama film, propaganda film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Irish landowner leads a revolt against British rule after World War I. The film is set during the Irish War of Independence and shows his conflict with British forces.

propagandisticdramatictensehistoricalstylizedseriousnationalistic

What happens

The Fox of Glenarvon (German: Der Fuchs von Glenarvon) is a 1940 Nazi German anti-British propaganda drama film produced in World War II portraying Irish War of Independence in the aftermath of World War I. It was produced in 1940 by Max W. Kimmich and starred Olga Chekhova, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Ferdinand Marian and others. The screenplay was written by Wolf Neumeister and Hans Bertram based on a novel of the same title by Nicola Rhon (Maria von Kirchbach) that had been published by the Ullstein publishing house in 1937. It was made at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin, with sets designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Otto Erdmann. The shoot lasted from December 1939 to February 1940. It passed censorship on 22 April 1940 and had its debut in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo two days later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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