The Higher Command

For the British film, see The High Command.

The Higher Command
Directed by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Written by	Kurt Kluge Karl Lerbs Philipp Lothar Mayring
Starring	Lil Dagover Karl Ludwig Diehl Heli Finkenzeller Friedrich Kayßler
Music by	Werner Eisbrenner Hermann Schulenburg
Cinematography	Robert Baberske Curt Courant
Edited by	Milo Harbich
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release dates	30 December 1935
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Higher Command (German:Der höhere Befehl) is a 1935 German historical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Lil Dagover, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Heli Finkenzeller. During the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian army officer assists a British diplomat to construct an alliance to defeat Napoleon's France.^[1]

It was produced around the time of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement when the German government were still optimistic about forming an alliance with the British and saw the film as a way of recalling the historic Anglo-Prussian partnership in liberating Europe from Napoleon.^[2] The film was praised by the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as "a national and engrossing film".^[3]

Partial cast

Lil Dagover as Madame Martin
Karl Ludwig Diehl as Rittmeister von Droste
Heli Finkenzeller as Käte Traß
Friedrich Kayßler as General
Eduard von Winterstein as Major
Aribert Wäscher as Advokat Menecke
Hans Leibelt as Bürgermeister Stappenbeck
Hans Mierendorff as Earl of Beckhurst
Gertrud de Lalsky as Majorin Traß
Karl Dannemann as Wenzel Lukas, Bursche
Siegfried Schürenberg as Lord Beckhurst
Günther Ballier as Premierleutnant von Bodenheim
Johannes Bergfeldt as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
Gertrud Wolle as Frau Barth
Walter Schramm-Duncker as Florian, Kutscher
Heinz Könecke as Leutnant Eckartsberg
Friedrich Franz Stampe as Wachtmeister Krim
Arnim Suessenguth as Kreisgerichtsdirektor Barth
Till Klockow as Tochter Barth
Otti Dietze as Hotelwirtin
Walter von Allwoerden as Vertauter des Earls
Bertold Reissig as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
Robert Forsch as Apotheker Riggert
Karl Hannemann as Holzhändler Miesling
Leopold von Ledebur as Offizier
Theodor Loos as Meneckes Mitarbeiter
Werner Pledath as Kammerpräsident
Volker von Collande as Bürger
Claire Reigbert as Dame beim Empfang

References

↑ Kreimeier p.277
↑ Kreimeier p.277-78
↑ Kreimeier p.278

Bibliography

Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

The Higher Command at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Gerhard Lamprecht

The Buddenbrooks (1923)
The House Without Laughter (1923)
The Other Woman (1924)
The Hanseatics (1925)
Slums of Berlin (1925)
Children of No Importance (1926)
People to Each Other (1926)
Sister Veronika (1927)
The Catwalk (1927)
Under the Lantern (1928)
The Old Fritz (1928)
The Man with the Frog (1929)
Emil and the Detectives (1931)
The Black Hussar (1932)
Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
A Day Will Come (1934)
Princess Turandot (1934)
Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
The Higher Command (1935)
One Too Many on Board (1935)
A Strange Guest (1936)
Madame Bovary (1937)
The Yellow Flag (1937)
The Gambler (1938)
Woman in the River (1939)
The Girl at the Reception (1940)
Clarissa (1941)
Diesel (1942)
Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
Sergeant Borck (1955)

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