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Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz

1999-01-01 de 34m
DocumentaryAnimation
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney-Quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is re-traced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards. – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi” a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful Multiplane-technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, life-action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich.

Director

Ulrich Stoll

Sound

Lenin de los Reyes

Thanks

Peter Lemcke

Editorial Staff

Ute Casper

Cinematography

Klaus Sturm

Production Manager

Mika Kusenbach

germany cinema history nazi germany

Status

Released

Countries

  • Germany

Companies

  • De Campo Film
  • WDR
  • ARTE
  • TrickStudio Lutterbeck