Feuertaufe. Der Film vom Einsatz unserer Luftwaffe im polnischen Feldzug
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Synopsis
An inhuman and revisionist propaganda montage, staging the invasion of Poland as a heroic, triumphal procession of the German air force (Luftwaffe). Produced with formidable technical flourishes, the film fully connotes the National Socialist program with the Polish sacrifice in the war of aggression. The spectacular aerial shots of the surface bombardments function simultaneously as a technologist orgy: thus, the film above all, from today′s point of view, delivers a cynical as well as illuminating evidence for the inhuman NS military doctrine.
Credits
| Director: | Hans Bertram |
| Screenplay: | Hans Bertram, Wilhelm Stöppler |
| Director of photography: | Erwin Bleeck-Wagner, Walter Conz, Erich Doerk, Wolfgang Goßmann, Hans Imber, Heinz von Jaworsky, Arthur Anwander, Artur Lincke, Bruno Lötsch, Günther Petrusch, Heinz Ritter, Wilhelm Siem, H. O. Schulze, Heinz Witte |
| Editing: | Carl Otto Bartning |
| Music: | Norbert Schultze |
| Production company: | Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) |
All Credits
| Director: | Hans Bertram |
| Screenplay: | Hans Bertram, Wilhelm Stöppler |
| Director of photography: | Erwin Bleeck-Wagner, Walter Conz, Erich Doerk, Wolfgang Goßmann, Hans Imber, Heinz von Jaworsky, Arthur Anwander, Artur Lincke, Bruno Lötsch, Günther Petrusch, Heinz Ritter, Wilhelm Siem, H. O. Schulze, Heinz Witte |
| Editing: | Carl Otto Bartning |
| Sound: | Heinz Opitz, Siegfried Schulze, Helmut Güttinger |
| Music: | Norbert Schultze |
| Voice: | Herbert Gernot |
| Production company: | Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH (Berlin) |
| Commissioned by: | Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Berlin) |
| Unit production manager: | Wilhelm Stöppler |
| Rating: | , , , |
| Length: | 2462 m, 90 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1.33 |
| Picture/Sound: | s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 03.04.1940, B.53564, Jugendfrei / ohne Spielhandlung / Lehrfilm / Feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 05.04.1940, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Feuertaufe. Der Film vom Einsatz unserer Luftwaffe im polnischen Feldzug |
| Weiterer Titel (DE) Feuertaufe. Der Film vom Einsatz unserer Luftwaffe in Polen |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 2462 m, 90 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1.33 |
| Picture/Sound: | s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 03.04.1940, B.53564, Jugendfrei / ohne Spielhandlung / Lehrfilm / Feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 05.04.1940, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo |
Formatfassung | |
| Length: | 805 m |
| Format: | 16mm |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 29.10.1940, B.54433, Jugendfrei / ohne Spielhandlung / Lehrfilm / Feiertagsfrei |
Prüffassung | |
| Length: | 2465 m |
| Rating: | Zensur (DE): 08.11.1943, B.59595, Jugendfrei / Lehrfilm |




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