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Above All Else in the World
File:Above All Else in the World.jpg
Directed by Karl Ritter
Produced by Karl Ritter
Written by
  • Felix Lützkendorf
  • Karl Ritter
Starring
Music by Herbert Windt
Cinematography Werner Krien
Edited by Gottfried Ritter
Production
company
UFA
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 21 March 1941 (1941-03-21)
Running time
85 minutes
Country Nazi Germany
Language German

Above All Else in the World (German language: Über alles in der Welt) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer and Fritz Kampers.[1] The title refers to the second line of the German national anthem. It was made as a propaganda film designed to promote Nazi Germany's war aims in the Second World War.

Synopsis[]

Following the outbreak of war, Germans abroad face persecution from the British and French authorities.

Cast[]

  • Paul Hartmann as Otl. Steinhart
  • Hannes Stelzer as Hans Wiegand
  • Fritz Kampers as Fritz Möbius
  • Carl Raddatz as Carl Wiegand
  • Oskar Sima as Leo Samek
  • Maria Bard as Madeleine LaRoche
  • Berta Drews as Anna Möbius
  • Carsta Löck as Erika Möbius
  • Marina von Ditmar as Brigitte
  • Joachim Brennecke as Willy Möbius
  • Karl John as Olt. Hassencamp
  • Josef Dahmen as Uffz. Weber
  • Georg Thomalla as Uffz. Krause
  • Herbert A.E. Böhme as Kapitän Hansen
  • Wilhelm König as Funker Boysen
  • Karl Haubenreißer as Sally Nürnberg
  • Andrews Engelmann as Capt. John Stanley
  • Hans Baumann as Robert Brown
  • Ernst Sattler as Rainthaler
  • Lutz Götz as Hofer
  • Albert Janscheck as Reindl
  • Marianne Straub as Walburga
  • Peter Elsholtz as Dr. v. Krisis
  • Kunibert Gensichen as Reg.-Ass. Glockenburg
  • Eva Tinschmann as Oberschwester Isolde
  • Oscar Sabo as Friedrich Wilhelm Hoppe
  • Gerhard Dammann as Siemens-Werkmeister
  • Beppo Brem as Putzenlechner
  • Hermann Gunther as Elsässischer Bürgermeister
  • Günther Polensen as Flieger-Leutnant Nacke
  • Willi Rose
  • Fanny Cotta
  • Heinz Welzel
  • Franz Lichtenauer
  • Paul Schwed
  • Herbert Scholz
  • Wolfgang Molitor

References[]

  1. Kreimeier p. 312

Bibliography[]

  • Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0. 

External links[]

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