A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Acting
Philip Dorn's Erik: villainy so oily you could fry schnitzel in it
Direction
Sherman's shadow-drenched sets scream 'we watched some German expressionism'
Production
Warner Bros. built fake Nazi Germany on the Burbank backlot
Director
Vincent Sherman
Jeffrey Lynn
Kurt Franken
Philip Dorn
Eric Franken
Kaaren Verne
Sylvia Helmuth
Ludwig Stössel
Gustav Muller
Arthur Tovey
Man at Railroad Station
Mona Maris
Ms. Gessner
Peter Whitney
Alex
Martin Kosleck
Heller
Erwin Kalser
Dr. Franken
Ilka Grüning
Frau Franken
Frank Reicher
Professor Baumer
Egon Brecher
Herr Director
Hans Schumm
Heller's Aide
Wolfgang Zilzer
Hoffman
Roland Varno
Ernst Demmler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warner Bros. was the most aggressively anti-Nazi studio; this dropped months before Pearl Harbor when most Americans wanted isolation.
The real Franken brothers—German Jewish émigrés who changed their name—produced it. Meta much?
US
