Des Teufels General

original title:
Des Teufels General
other titles:
Devil's General
country / year of production:
Germany / 1954
original length:
117 min. , black/white
premiere:
24 May 1957, Finnland
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Carl Zuckmayer. Des Teufels General. Drama in drei Akten. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1947.
director:
Helmut Käutner
film script:
George Hurdalek , Helmut Käutner , Gyula Trebitsch
producer:
Gyula Trebitsch
cinematographer:
editor:
Klaus Dudenhöfer
composer:
cast (role):
Curd Jürgens (Gen. Harry Harras) , Marianne Koch (Dorothea 'Diddo' Geiss) , Viktor De Cova (Lt. Gen. Schmidt-Lausitz) , Karl John (Karl Oderbruch) , Eva Ingeborg Scholz (Waltraud 'Putschen' Mohrungen) , Curd Jürgens , Marianne Koch , Viktor De Cova , Karl John , Eva Ingeborg Scholz
more:
plot synopsis:
Germany 1941 – the world is in the middle of the war. The German cities are attacked by innumerable air attacks from enemy squadrons. It gets more and more clear that who dominates in the air will win the war. The SS tries by all means to gain the famous airforce general Harras, who dedicated himself to Hitler’s "Wehrmacht" for his love to flying, for its cause. Harras recognises that he is partly to blame for a cruel war and inhumanity. He atones for his failure by sacrificing his life to safe a friend from the SS.
keywords:
air raid , dersertion , friends on opposite sides , pilot
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
E.M.V. Plater. „Helmut Käutner’s film adaptation of Des Teufels General“. In: Literature/Film Quarterly 22 (1994), 4, 253-264.
remarks:
availability:
VHS, DVD