Fritz Kirchhoff

Fritz Kirchhoff
Born	10 December 1901 Hannover, German Empire
Died	25 June 1953 Hamburg, West Germany
Occupation	Film producer Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1937-1950 (director)

Fritz Kirchhoff (1901–1953) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was a noted director during the Nazi era, directing film such as the anti-British propaganda thriller Attack on Baku (1942). His 1942 film 5 June, showing the German defeat of France in 1940, was banned by Joseph Goebbels for unclear reasons, although it has been speculated it was to avoid offending the Vichy government.^[1] After the Second World War Kirchoff set up his own production company in Hamburg.

Selected filmography

Director

• Tango notturno (1937)
• My Friend Barbara (1937)
• When Women Keep Silent (1937)
• Shadows Over St. Pauli (1938)
• Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth? (1939)
• Three Wonderful Days (1939)
• Attack on Baku (1942)
• 5 June (1942)
• One Day (1945)

Producer

• The Girl from the South Seas (1950)
• The Thief of Baghdad (1952)
• I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1952)

References

1. Eltin p.177

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Eltin, Richard A. Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

• Fritz Kirchhoff at the Internet Movie Database