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Following Germany’s annexation of Austria, Hitler and the world’s eyes turned to Czechoslovakia. FPL and Frontier Films affiliated Kline bluffed his way into the country as a Nazi sympathiser, enlisting local filmmakers, Burger and Hackenschmied, to help document the Nazi’s incremental takeover.
Mar 10, 2022 · Screenplay by Kline, Hans Burger, Alexander Hackenschmied (Hammid). 95 min. Released in 1939, Herbert Kline and Alexander Hackenschmied’s Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way was the first documentary report on the approaching catastrophe in Europe.
- Herbert Kline
- March 10, 2022
- March 24, 2022
Released in 1939, Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way was the first documentary report on the approaching catastrophe in Europe by filmmakers Herbert Kline and Alexander Hackenschmied (the second, centered on the invasion of Poland in 1940, was Lights Out in Europe, restored by MoMA and screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato in 2018).
A filmed documentary of the last days in free Czechoslovakia before Hitler invaded. The film was not yet complete, or certain parts of it even processed, before German...
- Leif Erickson
Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way | Rotten Tomatoes. 1939, Documentary/War, 1h 26m. -- Tomatometer 1 Reviews. -- Audience Score. Want to see. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found...
- Herbert Kline, Alexander Hammid
- Documentary, War
- Leif Erickson
Full Review | Dec 27, 2023. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets.
Crisis (1939) is a feature-length documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis. It was released briefly before the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The film was directed by Herbert Kline, Hans Burger, and Alexander Hammid, with narration written by Vincent Sheean and read by Leif Erickson.
