The Endless Road
| The Endless Road | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hans Schweikart |
| Produced by | Gerhard Staab |
| Written by |
Walter von Molo (novel and screenplay) Ernst von Salomon |
| Starring |
Eugen Klöpfer Eva Immermann Hedwig Wangel |
| Music by | Oskar Wagner |
| Cinematography | Franz Koch |
| Edited by | Ludolf Grisebach |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Deutsche Filmvertriebs |
Release dates | 24 August 1943 |
Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
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.
Cast
- Eugen Klöpfer as Friedrich List
- Eva Immermann as Mila List, seine Tochter
- Hedwig Wangel as Susan Harper
- Alice Treff as Helen Harper
- Kurt Müller-Graf as von Runge
- Friedrich Domin as Fürst Metternich
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as General Jackson
- Lisa Helwig as Karoline List
- Viktor Afritsch as Hofrat Gentz
- Joseph Offenbach as Seybold
- Adolf Gondrell as Ritter
- Günther Hadank as König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preussen
- Gustav Waldau as König Wilhelm I. von Würtemberg
- Walter Holten as Kommandant von Hohenasperg
- Herbert Hübner as Handelsgerichtsbeisitzender
- Oskar Höcker as Würtembergischer Kammerpräsident
- Fritz Reiff as Preussischer Minister
- Walter Buhse
- Heinz Burkart
- Wolfgang Dohnberg
- Peter Doming
- Karl Graumann
- Karl Hanft
- Hannes Keppler
- Herbert Kroll
- Else Kündinger
- Walter Lantzsch
- Eduard Loibner
- Philipp Manning
- Emil Matousek
- Sepp Nigg
- Julius Riedmueller
- Sonja Gerda Scholz
- F.W. Schröder-Schrom
- Otz Tollen
- Anni Trautner
- Adalbert von Cortens
References
- ↑ Hull p.261
Bibliography
- Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945. University of California Press, 1969.