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Director:
Helmut Käutner
Writers:
George Hurdalek (writer)
Helmut Käutner (writer)
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Release Date:
23 February 1955 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Tagline:
They bought his soul and put him in command of Hell!
Plot:
Harry Harras is a renowned general in the Luftwaffe during World War II. His expertise in turning out... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
The best German movie ever! more (5 total)

Cast

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Curd Jürgens ... Gen. Harry Harras
Marianne Koch ... Dorothea 'Diddo' Geiss
Viktor de Kowa ... SS-Gruppenführer Schmidt-Lausitz
Karl John ... Ingenieur Karl Oderbruch
Eva Ingeborg Scholz ... Waltraut 'Pützchen' Mohrungen
Harry Meyen ... Leutnant Hartmann
Bum Krüger ... Hauptmann Lüttjohann
Paul Westermeier ... Otto Korrianke, Fahrer von Harras
Camilla Spira ... Kammersängerin Olivia Geiss
Erica Balqué ... Anne Eilers
Albert Lieven ... Oberst Friedrich Eilers
Karl Ludwig Diehl ... Generaldirektor Mohrungen
Beppo Brem ... Hauptmann Pfundtmayer
Werner Fuetterer ... Baron von Pflunck
Joseph Offenbach ... Hauptsturmführer Zernick
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Devil's General (USA)
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Runtime:
117 min
Country:
West Germany
Language:
German
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Klangfilm-Stereocord
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12
Filming Locations:
Berlin, Germany more
Company:
Real-Film GmbH more

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The best German movie ever!, 15 August 2000
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Author: hoffmanu from Colorado Springs, USA

The epic of Goethe's "Faust" replayed in real life (Ernst Udet, Generalluftzeugmeister, was the source for Zuckmayer's General Harras), and in a play by Carl Zuckmayer. Displays excellently how Germans were suckered into following the modern day "Pied Piper from Austria": Adolf Hitler; and how you have to pay the piper if you follow him. "Denn wer auf Erden des Teufels General gewesen ist und ihm die Bahn gebombt hat, der muss ihm auch in der Hoelle Quartier machen!" - "For whoever was the Devil's General on this Earth, and who bombed the path for him, also has to be his quartermaster in hell!"

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