Official list - GERMANY - Films made during the Third Reich banned by the Allies after WWII
(In German: Liste der unter allierter Militärzensur verbotenen deutschen Filme)
After Nazi Germany unconditional surrender in 1945, the Allied Control Council responsible for film censorship issued a list of German and Austrian films forbidden to be shown to the general public, to prevent the propagation of Nazi ideology.
As of today, I have only seen 4 of the 175 films (2.29%)
After Nazi Germany unconditional surrender in 1945, the Allied Control Council responsible for film censorship issued a list of German and Austrian films forbidden to be shown to the general public, to prevent the propagation of Nazi ideology.
As of today, I have only seen 4 of the 175 films (2.29%)
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- DirectorArthur Maria RabenaltStarsRené DeltgenKirsten HeibergLotte KochSpies Karl and Lilly target the German Kettwig company, trying to secure data about an innovative tearproof wire. Bernd Kettwig is wooed by Lilly while his assistant Inge falls for Karl, and two other employees are coerced into treason.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsPaul HartmannAnnelies ReinholdClementia EgiesPrussian General Roedern is designing the top secret blueprints of a fortress. When one of the designs is found in the embassy of the hostile Austrians, Roedern is charged with treason. His lover Maria wants to join him in his confinement.
- DirectorPhilipp Lothar MayringStarsGustav FröhlichJutta FreybeKirsten HeibergDuring the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.
- DirectorAlfred AbelStarsGustav DiesslCharlotte SusaHarry FrankA British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner.Complications ensue.
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsEmil JanningsWerner HinzLeopoldine KonstantinThe story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
- DirectorRobert A. StemmleStarsWilly FritschCarl KuhlmannKäthe von NagyA WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsLuise UllrichWerner KraussKäthe HaackA Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsBrigitte HorneyJoachim GottschalkHans NielsenIn 1918 in Damascus a German garrison, allied with Turkey, holds out for a while against the British. Though they will ultimately abandon both the fort and colonial hopes in the Middle East, the film celebrates their heroism.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsMarianne HoppeHans SöhnkerFritz OdemarMichael and Franziska's relationship suffers from the separations brought on by his photojournalism. Only after Michael's colleague lay dying in his arms does he decide to go home, but is asked by Franziska to join the war: as a soldier.
- DirectorPaul WegenerStanislaw WasylewskiStarsMichael BohnenLil DagoverMarieluise ClaudiusAn egotistical Saxon monarch reclaims the throne of Poland from the Swedish Karl XII in 1709 with Russian help.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsFranziska KinzFerdinand MarianMaria LandrockBarbara rejects womanizer Dr. Deinert and marries Prof. Walter Helmerding who has two children from a first marriage. When Deinert flirts with Walter's teenage daughter Barbara tries to thwart what she perceives as his revenge mission.
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsPaul HartmannFriedrich KayßlerLil DagoverA biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
- DirectorCarl FroelichWalter SupperArzén von CserépyStarsOtto GebührOlga TschechowaElga BrinkThe story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
- DirectorWerner KlinglerStarsHeinrich GeorgeWalter BechmannRobert ForschDuring WWII, an old civil servant retires, but his old patriotism is re-awakened after his son's loss and his city's heavy bombing by English bombers.
- DirectorFranz HoferRobert LandStarsPaul RichterElse ElsterGrit HaidAn Austrian nobleman, exiled in disgrace to America, returns at the outbreak of the Great War and joins two comrades marching off to the front.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWilly FritschMarte HarellTheo LingenPrince Alexander loves the commoner Vera and defies his uncle the Tzar as well as his peers by arranging his wedding. But Vera leaves him because she does not want to be the cause of him spending the rest of his life as a social outcast.
- DirectorJohannes MeyerStarsFriedrich KayßlerOtto WernickeHerbert HübnerWWI thriller set on the Austro-Russian front. A long distance gun helps against the enemy,until a traitor, who needs to be found, gives signals to the whereabouts of the battery.
