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词条 Hitlerjunge Quex (film)
释义

  1. Plot summary

      Depiction of communism   Differences from novel  

  2. Cast

  3. Soundtrack

  4. Production and release

  5. Reception

  6. The study of Culture at a Distance

  7. See also

  8. Sources

     References 

  9. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = Hitlerjunge Quex
| image =
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| director = Hans Steinhoff
| producer = Karl Ritter
| writer = Bobby E. Lüthge
|screenplay = Karl Aloys Schenzinger
Baldur von Schirach
| based on = {{based on|Der Hitlerjunge Quex|K.A. Schenzinger}}
| narrator =
| starring = See below
| music = Hans-Otto Borgmann
| cinematography = Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
| editing = Milo Harbich
| studio = UFA
| distributor = UFA
| released = 19 September 1933
| runtime = 95 minutes
87 minutes (USA)
| country = Nazi Germany
| language = German
| budget = 320,000 RM ({{Inflation|DE|320000|1933|fmt=eq|cursign=€}})
| gross =
}}

Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend (Hitler Youth Quex) is a 1933 German film directed by Hans Steinhoff, based on the 1932 novel Hitler Youth Quex (Hitlerjunge Quex). The film was shown in the US under the title Our Flag Leads Us Forward.

Plot summary

Heini Völker is a teenage boy, living in poverty in Berlin, in a one-room apartment. The year is 1932 - the depth of the Great Depression. Heini's father, a German Army veteran of the Great War, is an out-of-work supporter of the Communist Party who sends his son on a weekend of camping with the Communist Youth Group. Though his son objects, Herr Völker is adamant and sends him anyway. While there Heini finds the undisciplined revelry of the Communists to be distasteful. There is smoking, drinking, and dancing late into the night. Meals are served by cutting hunks from loaves of bread and throwing them to hungry campers who push to get something to eat. Boys and girls play games where they take turns holding each other down and slapping each other's genitals. Heini runs away and in another part of the park finds a group of Hitler Youth camping by a lake. He spies on them from a distance, and is amazed at what he sees.

The Hitler Youth are working together to make fires and cook a hot dinner. They sing patriotic songs, listen to speeches, and shout in unison their support for an "awakened Germany". The Hitler Youth members are disciplined and highly motivated, and there is no smoking or drinking. When they catch Heini watching them, they are suspicious, as they know the communists are encamped nearby, and send him away. Too fascinated to stay away for long, Heini soon returns to the hill overlooking the HJ camp and watches as they get up early and run to the lake for a before-breakfast communal swim. Health, cleanliness, teamwork and patriotic nationalism is the image projected. Heini is so enraptured that he starts to practice marching before reluctantly returning to the Communist camp.

When Heini returns to his home singing one of the Hitler Youth songs, his father beats him and signs him up to become a member of the Communist Party. Heini wants nothing to do with the Communists, but he overhears some of them talking, and informs the Hitler Youth that the Communists are planning to ambush them during a march using guns and dynamite. After some hesitation, the Hitler Youth leadership decides to believe the warning and thus save their members from the ambush. Heini becomes a pariah to the Communists, but the Hitler Youth welcome him, giving him the nickname "Quex" (Quicksilver) in reference to how quickly he takes action and carries out orders. His distraught mother tries to kill her son and herself by extinguishing the pilot light and leaving the gas on in their one-room apartment at night. She is killed, but Quex survives. His father, crushed by what happened, happens to meet with Quex's Hitler Youth troop leader, Bannführer Kass, when both men go to see Quex at the hospital. After speaking with Kass and with his son, Herr Völker begins to wonder whether his son is right — National Socialism may be better for Germany than Communism.

A recurring character in the film is the Communist street performer. His theme is that "for some people things work out well... but for George they never do." The message is that life in Germany may improve for everyone else, but for the working man, George, life won't be good unless he joins the Communist Party. The Communists bring George in on a plan to hunt down Quex after all the trouble he has caused the Communist Party. Quex is out alone when the Communists come after him, and though he tries hard to get away, he is eventually cornered and fatally stabbed. Other Hitler Youth members, who came running after hearing Quex's cries for help, find him too late. Quex dies in the arms of his comrades in the Hitler Youth, and posthumously becomes a hero to the Nazi movement.

Heini Völker's antagonist is the communist youth leader Wilde, "a Nazi version of the incarnation of the 'Jewish-Bolshevik' will to destruction".[1] The film's message is characterized by its final words, "The banner is greater than death".[2]

Depiction of communism

The film allows some sympathy for communists. Quex's father, though violent and drunk, has become a communist because of his, and the workers', desperate condition.[3] In one scene, his argument for his son being with him revolves around his sufferings in the war and his unemployment.[4] The communist who invited Quex to a Communist Youth outing, while saying that he has to be eliminated, takes no part in the killing, Quex having made a strong impression on him.[5]

Differences from novel

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Cast

  • Jürgen Ohlsen as Heini Völker
  • Heinrich George as Vater Völker
  • Berta Drews as Mutter Völker
  • Claus Clausen as Bannführer Kaß (Brigade Leader Kass)
  • Rotraut Richter as Gerda
  • Hermann Speelmans as Stoppel
  • Hans Richter as Franz
  • Ernst Behmer as Kowalski
  • Hansjoachim Büttner as Arzt (doctor)
  • Franziska Kinz as Krankenschwester (nurse)
  • Rudolf Platte as Moritatensänger (carnival singer)
  • Reinhold Bernt as Ausrufer (barker)
  • Hans Deppe as Althändler (furniture dealer)
  • Anna Müller-Lincke as Eine Nachbarin Völkers (Völkers' neighbour)
  • Karl Meixner as Wilde
  • Karl Hannemann as Lebensmittelhändler (grocer)
  • Ernst Rotmund as Revierwachtmeister (desk sergeant)
  • Hans Otto Stern as Kneipenwirt (bartender)
  • Hermann Braun
  • Heinz Trumper

Soundtrack

  • "Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran" (Marschlied der Hitlerjugend) (Music by Hans-Otto Borgmann, lyrics by Baldur von Schirach)
  • Sung several times by the communists - "The Internationale" (Written by Eugène Pottier & Pierre Degeyter)
  • Sung on the camping trip of the communists and later by a Hitler Youth - "Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen" (Written by Werner R. Heymann & Robert Gilbert)

Production and release

The film was produced in the Universum Film AG (Ufa) studios.[6] The plot was written by Bobby E. Lüthge and Karl Aloys Schenzinger, the author of the novel.[6] Produced by Karl Ritter,[6] it was supported by the Nazi leadership and produced for 320,000 reichsmarks[7] ({{Inflation|DE|320000|1933|fmt=eq|cursign=€}}) under the aegis of Baldur von Schirach.[8] The latter also wrote the lyrics for the Hitler Youth marching song "Vorwärts! Vorwärts! schmettern die hellen Fanfaren", better known by its refrain, Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran,[9] using an existing melody by Hans-Otto Borgmann, who was also responsible for the music.[6] The director was Hans Steinhoff.[6] For the film, the subtitle Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend ("A film about the sacrificial spirit of German youth") was added to the novel's title.[6] The film has a length of 95 minutes (2,605 metres) and was premiered on 11 September 1933 at the Ufa-Phoebus Palace in Munich, and on 19 September at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.[6] It was one of three films about Nazi martyrs in 1933, the other two being SA-Mann Brand and Hans Westmar.[7]

The film premiered in the United States at the Yorkville Theatre on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on 6 July 1934 as Our Flag Leads Us Forward[10][11] and in March 1942 in Paris as Le jeune hitlérien.[12]

Reception

Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels and other high Nazi functionaries attended the first premiere in Munich.[13] Goebbels reflected on the film as follows: "If Hitler Youth Quex represents the first large-scale attempt to depict the ideas and world of National Socialism with the art of cinema, then one must say that this attempt, given the possibilities of modern technology, is a full-fledged success."[14] By January 1934 it had been viewed by a million people.[7]

Hitlerjunge Quex is now classified in Germany as a Vorbehaltsfilm (conditional film), meaning it is illegal to show it outside of closed educational events guided by an expert.

The study of Culture at a Distance

The film was used by Gregory Bateson in 1943 in a classical example of culture study at distance. A portion of this study was published as "An Analysis of the Nazi Film Hitlerjunge Quex" on pages 331 to 348 of The Study of Culture at a Distance, edited by Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux, University of Chicago Press, 1953.

See also

  • Hitler Youth Quex, the novel
  • List of German films 1919-1933
  • List of German films 1933-1945
  • Nazism and cinema

Sources

References

1. ^Jay W. Baird, To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press-Midland Books, 1990, repr. 1992, {{ISBN|9780253311252}}, p. 121.
2. ^Eric Rentschler, The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1996, {{ISBN|9780674576391}}, p. 69.
3. ^Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema, tr. Gertrud Mander and David Wilson, New York: Macmillan, 1974, {{ISBN|9780020124009}}, p. 35.
4. ^Leiser (1974), p. 37.
5. ^Leiser (1974), pp. 35-36.
6. ^Rentschler, p. 319.
7. ^Rentschler, p. 56.
8. ^Rentschler, p. 54.
9. ^Rentschler, p. 320.
10. ^Rentschler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4SMM3dcHbwYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rentschler,+Ministry+of+Illusion&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_16-UMWkD-fyiQLQ34C4Bw&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Unsere%20Fahne&f=false p. 321, note 14].
11. ^Harry Waldman, Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942, Jefferson, North Carolina/London: McFarland, 2008, {{ISBN|9780786438617}}, pp. 49–50.
12. ^Waldmann, p. 51.
13. ^Rentschler, p. 55.
14. ^Rentschler, [https://www.google.com/books?id=4SMM3dcHbwYC&pg=PA55 pp. 55-56]

External links

  • Antti Alanen: Film Diary Hitlerjunge Quex
  • Axis History Forum Hitlerjunge Quex (Hitler Youth Quex)
  • {{IMDb title|id=0024127|title=Our Flags Lead Us Forward}}
  • {{Internet Archive film|id=1933-Hitlerjunge-Quex|name=Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend}}
  • Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend by BDM
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