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The Great King is a film of genre Drama directed by Veit Harlan with Otto Gebühr

The Great King (1942)

The Great King
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Length 1h58
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Genres Drama,    War,    Historical
Rating68% 3.431723.431723.431723.431723.43172

The Great King (German: Der große König) is a 1942 German drama film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Otto Gebühr. It depicts the life of Frederick the Great, who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786. It received the rare "Film of the Nation" distinction. It was part of a popular cycle of "Prussian films".

The film is a depiction of the Führerprinzip, with the analogy to Hitler being so clear that Hitler sent a print to Mussolini, and Goebbels warning against the drawing of the comparison in print, in particular because the pessimistic mood that opens the film. After a sergeant gives an unauthorized order, the king orders him promoted and punished; his decision to desert after this results in his death, because no disobedience is justified. Goebbels declared that the parallels were not a matter of propaganda but an obvious result of the parallels of history.

Goebbels also regarded as it instructing that their current sufferings would strengthen them.

Goebbels had some difficulty with the Army High Command over this film, because it depicted the king left in a lurch by his general, and complained that the army felt that any depiction, however historical, reflected badly on them.

Actors

Otto Gebühr

(King Frederick II)Kristina Söderbaum

(Luise Treskow)Gustav Fröhlich

(Sgt. Treskow)Hans Nielsen

(Niehoff)Hilde Körber

(Elisabeth)
And :
Paul Wegener
Otto Wernicke
Harry Hardt
Claus Clausen
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