Overview
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 retraced 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, live action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the Third Reich.
Production
De Campo Film · WDR · ARTE · TrickStudio Lutterbeck
Cast & Characters
Matthias Ponnier
Narrator
Bernd Kuschmann
Narrator
Rainer Pause
Narrator
Gerhard Fieber
himself
Heinz Kaskeline
himself
Peter Schauer
himself
Hans Fischerkösen jr.
himself
Oskar Sala
himself
Directors & Crew
Ulrich Stoll
Director
Hinnerick Bröskamp
Producer
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