Cadets (film)

Cadets (German: Kadetten) is a 1939 German historical war film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, and Andrews Engelmann. The film is set in 1760, against the backdrop of the Austro-Russian Raid on Berlin during the Seven Years' War. It depicts a group of Prussian cadets holding off superior Russian forces.

Cadets
Directed byKarl Ritter
Produced byKarl Ritter
Written by
  • Karl Ritter
  • Felix Lützkendorf
Starring
Music byHerbert Windt
CinematographyGünther Anders
Edited byGottfried Ritter
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 5 September 1939 (1939-09-05) (11th Nuremberg Rally)
  • 2 December 1941 (1941-12-02) (general release)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Because of its anti-Russian theme the film was pulled from release in 1939 following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It was put on general release in December 1941, once Germany and the Soviets were at war.[1]

The film is loosely connected to the Prussian film cycle of historical epics.

Cast
  • Mathias Wieman as Rittmeister von Tzülow
  • Carsta Löck as Sophie, kitchen maid
  • Andrews Engelmann as Col. Goroschew
  • Theo Shall as Capt. Jupow
  • Josef Keim as Sgt. Schönbrunn
  • Erich Walter as Gen. Graf Tschernitschew
  • Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Gen. von Buddenbrock
  • Wilhelm P. Krüger as Ingenieur-Major
  • Lydia Li as Russische Sängerin
  • Bernd Russbült as Kadett Bork
  • Klaus Detlef Sierck as Kadett Hohenhausen
  • Martin Brendel as Kadett Schack
  • Jürgen Mohrbutter as Kadett Potron
  • Rolf Ullmann-Schienle as Kadett Jordan
  • Hans Otto Gauglitz as Kadett Lampe
  • Gert Witt as Kadett Tiesenhausen
  • Klaus Storch as Kadett Raden

References
  1. Hull p. 189

Bibliography
  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
  • Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.


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