Unternehmen Michael

Unternehmen Michael Operation Michael or The Michael Action English title The Privates Job is a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter, the first of three films about the First World War which he made during the period when the Third Reich was rearming.

Shooting took place betweenMay and late June 1937, with interiors shot at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg.Unternehmen Michael is the first of three soldier films set during the First World War which Ritter made in 193638, when Nazi Germany was rearming in preparation for renewed war. Ritter himself described his war films as pictorial armoured cars, in contrast to entertainment films. It was a Staatsauftragsfilm it was commissioned by the Ministry of Propaganda. It is representative of the glorification in Nazi Germany of the heroic death Heldentod. As the general tells the major in charge of the assault unit Posterity will remember us not by the greatness of our victory but by the measure of our sacrifice Thousands of men are sacrificed over a ruined village of little strategic value. ........

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