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5.2/10   216 votes
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Director:
Veit Harlan
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Writers:
Alfred Braun (writer)
Veit Harlan (writer)
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Release Date:
5 October 1953 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Drama | History | War more
Plot:
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
The last big picture of the third reich... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Heinrich George ... Bürgermeister Nettelbeck
Kristina Söderbaum ... Maria
Paul Wegener ... Stadtkommandant Loucadou
Horst Caspar ... General Gneisenau
Gustav Diessl ... Leutnant Schill
Otto Wernicke ... Bauer Werner
Irene von Meyendorff ... Königin
Kurt Meisel ... Claus
Claus Clausen ... Frédéric-Guillaume III
Jaspar von Oertzen ... Prinz Louis Ferdinand
Jakob Tiedtke ... Reeder
Paul Bildt ... Rektor
Franz Schafheitlin ... Fanselow
Hans Hermann Schaufuss ... Zaufke
Paul Henckels ... Major in Königsberg
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Burning Hearts
Kolberg - Der 30. Jannuar 1945 (Germany) (rerun title)
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Runtime:
111 min
Country:
Germany
Language:
German | French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Germany:16 (re-release) | Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Featured 15,000 to 20,000 actual German troops in the battle scenes, even as Germany's eastern and western fronts were collapsing. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the scene at the Sylvester evening the camera shows the sky and it's snowing, but there are just a few clouds in the sky so it can' really snows. more
Quotes:
Bürgermeister Nettelbeck: 50 years I lives in there, an now it's burned down. Alas life goes on more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Das Goebbels-Experiment (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Ein Volk steht auf more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
The last big picture of the third reich..., 9 March 2001
Author: ekkard baeuerle (e.baeuerle@nest-online.de) from Rostock, Germany

First of all, this one will not be out in the stores or at your local rent-a-flick...The movie is the last effort of 1945´s german movie propaganda to strengthen the people´s will to fight on. Therefore, this - as many other propaganda pictures - is not offered to the public. Still, you might get it in universities with an interest in history of the third reich.

The story of the movie is not all that important... What matters is the great heinrich george, the rich colours, the hateful atmosphere of the movie - and the tragedy of reality as a background: Shortly after the making of "kolberg" was finished, germany was finished either:

The movie has a romantic perspective on a reactionary, aggressive, irrational and leader-oriented ideology... Not too far away from John Wayne, though I find him very entertaining as a green beret, either.

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