The production weeks there were filled with poor weather, rain, mud, and filth, and the start of Winter with snow. ABOVE: Filming conditions in the Soviet Union in October 1942 were vile. That is why Professor Karl Ritter, who is himself an officer in the Luftwaffe, came to the harsh reality of the Eastern Front with his Production Company, to film his new aviation film “Besatzung Dora.” – quote from the military magazine " Flieger, Funker, Kanoniere Frontzeitung einer Luftflotte" - Folge 35/36 - Dezember 1942. A real war film can therefore only stand up to the assessment if it is shot in a 'real environment,' as the filmmaker says. What someone has experienced and lived through day in, day out, doing what one can and must do, nobody wants to see that as film kitsch. A war film shot in the film studio, as the British and especially the Americans have already done, would just trigger laughter from the German soldiers. Because afterwards comes the criticism of millions of movie viewers who are themselves in combat life. " The creation of a war film is endlessly more difficult than that of a conventional feature film. Goebbels to be a look back - after the Endsieg - at the terror bombing of Berlin's civilians by the Allies, so can hardly be considered a "combat" film, unless one equates bombing civilians with napalm and cluster bombs as equivalent to a battle between two armed forces, such as Leningrand or Stalingrad. * The unreleased 1944 film, Eine kleine Sommermelödie, was filmed in Berlin and on the holiday island of Sylt, not in an active war zone, and the single scene of "war" was a trench scene which cannot be distinguished as either on the Eastern Front, nor the Western Front and the unfinished film Das Leben geht weiter, on which Karl Ritter was Head of Production, was meant by Dr. The film also had the Italians rescue the German airmen after a crash landing in North Africa, but by the time the film had been edited and readied for release, Mussolini had been overthrown and Italy no longer an Axis partner of the Reich. In addition, the Battle of Stalingrad had been lost in February '43 and the film plot had a Luftwaffe airman promise his fiancée a new farming life 'in the East' when the war was won. ![]() The Italian scenes were meant to have been filmed in the active war zone in North Africa but by the time the production company was finished in the USSR, Rommel had exhausted his fuel supplies and the Allies had cracked his military codes, so the Afrika Korps had been defeated and North Africa was off limits. The film was shot entirely on location on the Western Front, in Berlin, in the Soviet Union, and in Italy in 1942. ![]() ![]() The feature film Besatzung Dora was the last military combat feature film of the Third Reich*, completed in January, 1943 but after months of editing, re–editing, and private screenings, ultimately forbidden officially. Besten Dank im Voraus! We proudly have published the first– ever book on this remarkable WWII combat feature film, shot with an all– star cast on active war fronts between July and December 1942! Haben Sie etwas zu verkaufen? Bitte unten weiter lesen. Karl Ritter's banned 1943 military film Besatzung Dora (Air Crew Dora) – Special Section.ĭeutscher! Wir suchen mehr Materialen über den BESATZUNG DORA (1943).
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