The Fox of Glenarvon

The Fox of Glenarvon German Der Fuchs von Glenarvon is a German propaganda film from the Nazi era portraying the years of the Irish fight for independence during World War I. It was produced in 1940 by Max W. Kimmich and starred Olga Tschechowa, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Ferdinand Marian and others. The screenplay was written by Wolf Neumeister and Hans Bertram after a novel of the same title by Nicola Rhon Maria von Kirchbach that had been published at Ullstein publishing house in 1937. The shoot lasted from December 1939 to February 1940. It passed censorship onApril 1940 and had its debut in Berlins UfaPalast am Zoo two days later.

At the beginning of the war between Nazi Germany and Great Britain, this film stands in a long line of antiBritish propaganda films that portray the British as oppressors or traitors of minorities. For this reason, the love story is only a vehicle for the theory of the superiority of the earthy Irish race over the rotten British oppressors. In this film as in My life for Ireland, the British are brutal and unscrupulous oppressors. It does not, however, operate on such crude antiBritish stereotypes as such later films as Ohm Krger and Carl Peters, which were filmed after Hitler gave up hope of making peace with Britain.The fight against the British, furthermore, is depicted less historically and more in the manner of the Nazi seizure of power, including the disruption of a funeral as in the film Hans Westmar. ........

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