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The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.Read moreLess
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
The story
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
Cast & crew
Brigitte HorneyAnna
Willy BirgelKeith
Iván Petrovich
Carl WeryMartin
Nicolas KolineAndreas
Hedwig WangelLiska
Beppo BremWegereitExplore the crew
- Director
- Viktor Tourjansky
- Screenplay
- Emil Burri
- Screenplay
- Arthur Luethy
- Screenplay
- Viktor Tourjansky
- Director of Photography
- Fritz Arno Wagner
- Editor
- Walter Fredersdorf