A German Robinson Crusoe

A German Robinson Crusoe German Ein Robinson is a 1940 German drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Herbert A.E. Bhme, Marieluise Claudius, and Claus Clausen. Written by Arnold Fanck and Rolf Meyer, the film is a modernday Robinson Crusoe story about a man so angry about the postWorld War I conditions in Weimar Germany that he voluntarily goes to live on a desert island. The film was shot partly on location in South America.

One of the returning crew, Carl Ohlsen Herbert A.E. Bhme, leaves Weimar Germany and returns to the island where he had been held prisoner for three years, determined to live out the rest of his life as a Robinson Crusoe. Some time later, he hears a radio report that describes how things have improved in Germany during the 1930s. Later, when the new SMS Dresden passes the island, he makes his way to the ship and is taken aboard by his new respectful comrades.

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