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The Endless Road

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The Endless Road
Directed byHans Schweikart
Written by
Produced byGerhard Staab
Starring
CinematographyFranz Koch
Edited byLudolf Grisebach
Music byOskar Wagner
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
  • 24 August 1943 (1943-08-24)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Endless Road (German: Der Unendliche Weg) is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Eva Immermann and Hedwig Wangel. It portrays the life of Friedrich List, a German who emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century. Unusually the film was overtly pro-American at a time when the two countries were at war. This was possibly because the Nazi leadership hoped to shortly join the Americans in an anti-Soviet alliance and wanted to encourage warmer feelings between the two nations. Another pro-American (and anti-British) film about Thomas Paine was planned, but never made.[1]

It was made by Bavaria Film, one of the four major German film companies of the era. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Sohnle.

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References

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  1. ^ Hull p. 261

Bibliography

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  • Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.
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