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Operation Michael is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 13 may 1938 with Heinrich George
Operation Michael (1937)
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Add to a movie listUnternehmen Michael (Operation Michael or The Michael Action; English title The Private's Job) is a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter, the first of three films about the First World War which he made during the period when the Third Reich was rearming.
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The film is set in the First World War and is based on a 1932 play by Hans Fritz von Zwehl (Frühlingsschlacht, 'Spring Battle', originally also titled Unternehmen Michael) about the German offensive Operation Michael during the First World War, which was launched on 21 March 1918. The British are in possession of the village of Beaurevoir. The Germans plan to send in assault troops to take the village, but their commanding officer, Captain Hill, is injured the night before. A desk officer, Major zur Linden (Mathias Wieman), volunteers to lead the mission. The unit succeed but find themselves surrounded by the enemy. They discuss their options and Major zur Linden's advocacy of a heroic death for the sake of their country wins out over the defeatist and the traditional military pragmatist; the Germans declare a ceasefire and then the commanding general, in full knowledge, gives the order for their artillery to bombard the village as the British are storming it, thereby sacrificing their own men in order to kill the enemy. The sacrifice is not in vain; it enables the Germans to push forward to the British fortress, the 'Labyrinth'.Actors
Heinrich George
(Kommandierender General)
Paul Otto
(Lieutenant Colonel Hegenau)
Willy Birgel
(Major Graf Schellenberg)
Mathias Wieman
(Major zur Linden)
Hannes Stelzer
(Lt. Prinz Erxburg)
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