Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers German Henker, Frauen und Soldaten is a propaganda film made by the German filmmaker Johannes Meyer in 1935. It was produced with the Bavaria film company in Munich. The screenplay was written by Max W. Kimmich and Jacob Geis after the novel A Fellow Named Prack written by Fritz ReckMalleczewen.
In a bar, Michael comes across a captain Eckau who is recruiting former regular soldiers to fight in a Freikorps by the side of the White movement against the Red Army despite the German surrender. Michael joins the troops and, at the same time, meets lovely Vera Iwanowna. She considers him to be his cousin, Russian general Alexej Alexandrowitsch von Prack, with whom she is in love, because the two men are as like as two peas. Alexej, who cannot stand his cousin Michael since their childhood, commands the Russian troops standing against the Freikorps.While driving into the warzone, Michael remeets Vera who is not only Alexejs lover, but also a Russian spy. Meanwhile she has learned that he is Alexejs German cousin, but nevertheless spends a night with him before returning to the Russian headquarters. ........
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