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Carl Peters is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Selpin with Hans Albers
Carl Peters (1941)
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Add to a movie listCarl Peters is a 1941 German anti-British propaganda film, directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers as the titular German colonial leader, as well as Bayume Mohamed Husen as his native guide.
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The film follows Carl Peters, one of the founders of German East Africa. When addressing a parliamentary commission of inquiry, he openly calls for a Hitlerian policy of territorial conquest, which according to him requires hard-headed men, such as himself. He defends executions without trial as a way to prevent an uprising, which, he insists, the parliamentarians could not have prevented. The parliamentarians, who are also Jews, do not accept this, demonstrating what happens when the Führerprinzip is not adhered to.Actors
Hans Albers
(Dr. Carl Peters)
Karl Dannemann
(Karl Jühlke)
Fritz Odemar
(Graf Pfeil)
Hans Leibelt
(Prof. Karl Engel)
Erika von Thellmann
(Frau Kayser)
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