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National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.Read moreLess
National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
Cast & crew
Hans AlbersDr. Carl Peters
Fritz OdemarGraf Pfeil
Herbert HübnerLeo Kayser
Ernst Fritz FürbringerWehr-Bandelin
Erika von ThellmannFrau Kayser
Hans LeibeltProf. Karl Engel
Reinhold BerntUnteroffizier Hansen
Jack TrevorBritish ConsulExplore the crew
- Director
- Herbert Selpin
- Writer
- Walter Zerlett-Olfenius
- Writer
- Herbert Selpin
- Editor
- Friedel Buckow
- Writer
- Ernst von Salomon
- Director of Photography
- Franz Koch