Crime · Germany · 1933 · 1h 35m

Hans Westmar

Director

Cast

Paul Wegener as Kuprikoff Emil Lohkamp as Hans Westmar Heinrich Heilinger as Irmgard Willers as Otti Dietze as Carla Bartheel as

Crew

Hanns Heinz Ewers — Screenplay Hanns Heinz Ewers — Novel

Synopsis

Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.

Mood & Themes

nazi

Key Collaborators

Franz Wenzler Director Hanns Heinz Ewers Screenplay Hanns Heinz Ewers Novel

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