Carl Peters (Film)
- Hans Albers: Carl Peters
- Karl Dannemann: Karl Jühlke
- Fritz Odemar: Graf Pfeil
- Toni Bukovics: Mrs. Peters
- Hans Leibelt: Professor Angel
- Rolf Prasch: Kaiser Wilhelm I.
- Friedrich Otto Fischer: Otto von Bismarck
- Herbert Hübner: Legationsrat Leo Kayser
- Erika from Thellmann: Woman Kayser
- Hans Mierendorff: Dt. Consul in Zanzibar
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer: Count Behr Bandelin
- Friedrich Ulmer: Prince of Hohenlohe- Langenburg
- Justus Paris: Julius Kayser
- Jack Trevor: Engl consul in Zanzibar
- Richard Ludwig: Engl ambassador in Berlin
- Philip Manning: Sir Anthony Cerry
- Theo Shall: Robert Mitchell
- Georg H. Schnell: Stacy
- Walter Neusel: Jonny
- Andrews Engelmann: Capt. Mathew
- Reginald Pasch: Capt. Behrends - Grenwood
- Theodor Thony: Dr. Nicolo
- Andre Saint Germain: Capt. Bekker
- Mohamed Husen: Ramazan
- Reinhold Bernt: Sergeant Hansen
- Louis Brody: chieftain
- Ali Ghito: Mrs. Wilson
- Albert Johannes: SPD member of the Reichstag
- William Paul Kruger: Peters ' friend
- Gertrud de Lalsky: guest at reception
- Karl Meixner: Reichstag
- Lea Niako: dancer in the club
- Aruth Vartan: Arab slave traders
Carl Peters is an anti- British National Socialist propaganda film by Herbert Selpin from the year 1941.
Action
The film begins in Neuhaus an der Elbe. Peters is invited by his uncle Karl Engel, for a time to live with him in London. After a few years he offers Peter to get him work in the British Colonial Office. Peters rejects, however, because he must be British. Instead, he has developed in London colonial plans for Germany. When he learns that a colonial club was founded in Germany, he travels back to Germany because he hopes to gather support. Since its claims both the colonial club, as well as the Foreign Ministry at the Legation Councillor Dr. Kayser, the converted Jew is no hearing, see, he travels on his own to Africa.
In Zanzibar arrived, he tries to win the local German consul for his plans. But told him that neither a colony that would establish Peters, by the Reich government protection would be given to him yet. Peters then arbitrarily negotiated with several African chiefs and has completed all necessary contracts before the English and a Belgian expedition. Before he can make the contracts in Berlin, Peters has yet to survive a serious illness and a poison attack of the British Secret Service. Peters survived both, and finally gets to the Emperor a letter of protection for his colony.
In a new expedition to Africa Peters has again struggling with various resistors. Not only the English try again to turn it off, but also the Jewish colonial Director at the Foreign Office is a stop on Peter's in order. But the latter does not fall victim to Peters, but his friend Jühlke. While Peters can complete his expedition successfully, make a bad news from Berlin: Chancellor Bismarck was dismissed and Peters been recalled as imperial commissioner.
Back in Berlin, Peters answerable to the Reichstag. In particular, the Social Democrats in parliament accuse Peters of various offenses. Although it turns out that one asked by the British as a witness colored bishop has lied about Peters and Peters holds a fiery speech for the defense, but the resistance against Peters over the party boundaries is too large. Carl Peters will be dismissed from the imperial service for abuse of official power.
Production and reception
The film was produced by Carl W. Tetting for Munich Bavaria Film and also lent her. On the musical design in various scenes of the " kingdom of music train " the Reich Labor Service was involved. The German premiere took place on 21 March 1941.
He received the predicates state politically and artistically valuable, culturally valuable, educational for the people, youth worth.
The film glorifies uncritically the work of the controversial German colonialists and African explorer Carl Peters and is the historical contexts incomplete or distorted again. In addition, a negative image of parliamentary institutions such as the Reichstag is drawn.
After the end of World War II presented the Supreme Command of the Allied victors performance under the ban. Today, the exploitation rights are held by the Friedrich- Wilhelm -Murnau -Stiftung, which allows the screening of this film title only under special educational events.
The central scene of the film is considered by Erwin Leiser Carl Peters ' appearance before the parliamentary committee of inquiry, in the Peters " as speakers of a Hitlerite policy of conquest in the formlessness of the Wilhelmine Reich Commissioner " for the colonial interests of Germany greatly exposes and thereby against the British Empire and the English imperialism, position refers on the one hand and against his opponents in the committee of inquiry, according to the volume down not accidentally Jews. The fact that Peter's ambitions for German East Africa eventually fail, is the film after the fault of the parliamentary system, which has not yet been overcome by the Leadership Principle.