Carl Peters
1941 · 110 min
History · Drama
★ 5.8National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
Crew
- Director Herbert Selpin
- Writer Walter Zerlett-Olfenius
- Writer Herbert Selpin
- Writer Ernst von Salomon
- Director of Photography Franz Koch
Cast
Hans Albers
Dr. Carl Peters
Fritz Odemar
Graf Pfeil
Herbert Hübner
Leo Kayser
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Wehr-Bandelin
Erika von Thellmann
Frau Kayser
Hans Leibelt
Prof. Karl Engel
Reinhold Bernt
Unteroffizier Hansen
Jack Trevor
British Consul
- P
Philipp Manning
Sir Anthony Cerry
- R
Rolf Prasch
Kaiser Wilhelm I
- B
Bayume Mohamed Husen
Ramasan
Crew
- Director — Herbert Selpin
- Writer — Walter Zerlett-Olfenius
- Writer — Herbert Selpin
- Writer — Ernst von Salomon
- Director of Photography — Franz Koch
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