The Eleven Schill Officers (1932 film)


The Eleven Schill Officers German Die elf Schillschen Offiziere is a 1932 German historical film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Friedrich Kayler, Hertha Thiele and Heinz Klingenberg. It was a remake of a 1926 silent film of the same name which had also been directed by Meinert. The film depicts the failed 1809 uprising of Prussian soldiers led by Ferdinand von Schill against the occupying French. It focuses in particular on eleven of Schills officers who were executed by the French at Wesel. The film was a Prussian film, part of a wider trend of German historical films made during the Weimar Era and set in the Napoleonic Era.



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