Heimkehr
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Heimkehr (English: "Homecoming") is a 1941 Nazi German anti-Polish propaganda film directed by Gustav Ucicky.[1]
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Heimkehr | |
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Directed by | Gustav Ucicky |
Written by | Gerhard Menzel |
Based on | Heimkehr 1941 novel by Karl Hans |
Produced by | Karl Hartl, Wien-Film |
Starring | Paula Wessely Attila Hörbiger Carl Raddatz |
Cinematography | Günther Anders |
Edited by | Rudolf Schaad |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Distributed by | Universum Film AG |
Release dates | |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Budget | 3.7 million ℛℳ (equivalent to €15.9 million in 2009) |
Box office | 4.9 million ℛℳ (equivalent to €21 million in 2009) |
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It received the rare honor "Film of the Nation" in Nazi Germany, bestowed on films considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the national cause.[2] Filled with heavy-handed caricature, it justifies extermination of Poles with a depiction of relentless persecution of ethnic Germans, who escape death only because of the German invasion.[3]