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Carl Peters (1941)

Carl Peters (1941)

Drama History
Release Date: 1941, March 21
Directors: Herbert Selpin
Countries: Germany
Production: Bavaria-Filmkunst, Bavaria-Filmkunst
Cast: Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Erika von Thellmann, Hans Leibelt, Reinhold Bernt, Herbert Hübner, Rolf Prasch, Hans Albers, Fritz Odemar, Jack Trevor, Philipp Manning, Bayume Mohamed Husen

Overview:

National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.