Ewiger Wald
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Synopsis
Large-scale attempt to recast the history of the German people, according to the "Blood and Soil" (Blut und Boden) Nazi ideology, as the history of the German forest. Produced according to an assignment of the NS-Kulturgemeinde; premiered at the "Day of Folklore".
In a mixture of archival/documentary footage and contrived scenes, the film renders its version of history from the Bronze Age to the present. In the end, following Germany′s defeat by its enemies in the World War, the German forest is clear-cut, a swastika emerging in its place.
Credits
| Director: | Hanns Springer, Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski |
| Screenplay: | Albert Graf von Pestalozza, Carl Maria Holzapfel |
| Director of photography: | Sepp Allgeier, Werner Bohne, Otto Ewald, Wolf Hart, Guido Seeber, Wilhelm Georg Siehm, Heinrich Weidemann, Adolf Otto Weitzenberg, Bernhard Wentzel |
| Editing: | Arnfried Heyne |
| Music: | Wolfgang Zeller |
| Cast: | |
| Aribert Mog | |
| Production company: | Lex-Film, Albert Graf von Pestalozza (Berlin) |
| Producer: | Albert Graf von Pestalozza |
All Credits
| Director: | Hanns Springer, Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski |
| Screenplay: | Albert Graf von Pestalozza, Carl Maria Holzapfel |
| Director of photography: | Sepp Allgeier, Werner Bohne, Otto Ewald, Wolf Hart, Guido Seeber, Wilhelm Georg Siehm, Heinrich Weidemann, Adolf Otto Weitzenberg, Bernhard Wentzel |
| Optical effects: | Ernst Kunstmann |
| Editing: | Arnfried Heyne |
| Music: | Wolfgang Zeller |
| Music performer: | Waldo Favre (Chor) |
| Vocals: | Wilhelm Strienz |
| Cast: | |
| Aribert Mog | |
| Voice: | Günther Hadank, Heinz Herkommer, Paul Klinger, Lothar Körner, Kurt Wieschala |
| Production company: | Lex-Film, Albert Graf von Pestalozza (Berlin) |
| Commissioned by: | N.S. Kulturgemeinde (Berlin) |
| Producer: | Albert Graf von Pestalozza |
| Length: | 2406 m, 88 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1.33 |
| Picture/Sound: | s/w |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 20.08.1936, B.42625, Jugendfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 16.06.1936, München, Ufa-Palast; Aufführung (DE): 28.08.1936, Oldenburg |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Ewiger Wald |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 2406 m, 88 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1.33 |
| Picture/Sound: | s/w |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 20.08.1936, B.42625, Jugendfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 16.06.1936, München, Ufa-Palast; Aufführung (DE): 28.08.1936, Oldenburg |
Prüffassung | |
| Length: | 2000 m, 73 min |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 16.06.1937, B.45580, Jugendfrei |



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