Fritz Kirchhoff
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.
Also recorded as Friedrich Georg Anton Kirchhoff
Fritz Kirchhoff
- Name
- Fritz Kirchhoff
- Born
- 10 December 1901
- Birthplace
- Hannover, German Empire
- Died
- 25 June 1953
- Place of death
- Hamburg, West Germany
- Occupation
- * Film producer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
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After the Second World War Kirchhoff set up his own production company in Hamburg.
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• Name — Fritz Kirchhoff • Born — 10 December 1901 • Birthplace — Hannover, German Empire • Died — 25 June 1953 • Place of death — Hamburg, West Germany • Occupation — * Film producer • Film director • Screenwriter • Years Active — 1937–1950 (director)
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• 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) • The Eternal Spring (1940) • Attack on Baku (1942) • 5 June (1942) • When the Young Wine Blossoms (1943) • A Wife for Three Days (1944) • One Day (1945) • Only One Night (1950)
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• The Girl from the South Seas (1950) • Maya of the Seven Veils (1951) • The Thief of Baghdad (1952) • I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1952) • The Colourful Dream (1952)
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Berghahn Books. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. 2009. 978-1-57181-655-9.
- University of Chicago Press. Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. 2002. 978-0-226-22087-1.
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. 1999. 978-0-520-22069-0.
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