Cadets (film)

Cadets
Directed byKarl Ritter
Written by
Produced byKarl Ritter
Starring
CinematographyGünther Anders
Edited byGottfried Ritter
Music byHerbert Windt
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release dates
  • 5 September 1939 (1939-09-05) (11th Nuremberg Rally)
  • 2 December 1941 (1941-12-02) (general release)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Cadets (German: Kadetten) is a 1939 German historical war film directed by Karl Ritter starring Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, and Andrews Engelmann. The film is set in 1760, against the backdrop of the Austro-Russian Raid on Berlin during the Seven Years' War. It depicts a group of Prussian cadets holding off superior Russian forces.

Because of its anti-Russian theme the film was pulled from release in 1939 following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It was rereleased in December 1941, shortly after the pact was broken and Germany and the Soviets were at war.[1]

The film is loosely connected to the Prussian film cycle of historical epics.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Hull p. 189

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
  • Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.
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