GERMAN WAR FILM
AN AMAZING PRODUCTION. LONDON .April 2:1. One of the most amazing films ever produced was screened for the first time last evening in Berlin, and created a great sensation. It is Germany’s official film history of the war, covering twenty reels, and consisting of actual wartime films taken on the various battle-fronts by Germany’s best and bravest cinematographers. They are assembled in a manner presenting the war in a continuous and comprehensive story, ns it
is written on the hearts and minds of the German people. The film reviews the war as they knew and saw it. It suggests that Germany regarded the war as inevitable. The invasion of Belgium is slurred over, and there is nothing to which former enemies could take ex-
(.•option. The picture reveals men being slaughtered like (lies and shows actual Pritisli and h'rench shells bursting in crowded German trenches. Nothing remains of the. trenches hut debris. Again the picture shows the agonised faces of the actual troops under bombardment. Distraught eyes and open mouths tell their own vivid story, dim forms are seen writhing and twisting on the ground. Only the piles of corpses lie still. The camera lias caught the screaming figure of a man who obviously has lost his reason. 11 is eonimdes are seen to seize him and haul him out of the camera’s range. Another singularly vivid picture reveals a soldier unable to face machinegun fire throwing himself on the ground and tearing up the earth in a frantic endeavour to find cover for his head. None of these films lias previously been seen by the German people. Early mobilisation scenes in London, Paris, St. Petersburg. Vienna, and other centres are included. Von Hindeiihurg and l.udendorlf are seen planning the remarkable campaign which resulted in the debacle of Tnnnenburg. Miles of Tlussian prisoners are shown on the screen. The general effect of the film is to leave the impression that it is the most tremendous argument that could he conceived for the abolition of war
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1927, Page 4
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