- Title Pages
- Author’s Note
-
Introduction Individualist in a Totalitarian State -
1 The Father -
2 The Son -
3 Youth Culture -
4 Lights, Camera, Action -
5 Kunz versus Cohn -
6 The Interview -
7 Telling Others How to Act -
8 Learning the Alphabet -
9 Prestige -
10 Politics -
11 The Girl in the Water -
12 Adultery -
13 The Trap -
14 The Catastrophe of Success -
15 Blood and Soil -
16 The German Soul -
17 Frenzy -
18 Opfergang -
19 Perseverance -
20 In the Ruins of the Reich -
21 The Trial -
22 The Second Trial -
23 Heimatfilm Noir -
24 Exile -
25 Youth Culture Revisited -
26 Exhaustion - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
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Appendix Quotes on Harlan - Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Plates
Blood and Soil
Blood and Soil
- Chapter:
- (p.193) 15 Blood and Soil
- Source:
- Veit Harlan
- Author(s):
Frank Noack
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter deals with Harlan’s debut as producer-director in late 1941. After canceling his contract with Tobis, his home studio since 1937, he gets a production unit of his own at UFA and starts work on Die goldene Stadt (The golden city), Germany’s second film in Agfacolor. While his Prussian epic Der grosse König is finally released, after heavy cuts and reshoots, half a dozen of Harlan’s former colleagues as well as theater critics who had spotted his talent early on are among the first Holocaust victims, and his Jewish first wife, Dora Gerson, has to go underground. Die goldene Stadt, released at the Venice Film Festival in 1942, becomes a sensational commercial success throughout Europe, helped by the fact that in Nazi-occupied areas audiences have no access to Hollywood’s Technicolor films. In his diaries, Joseph Goebbels explicitly links his monopoly on color stock to the Wehrmacht’s military successes.
Keywords: Agfacolor, canceling contract, early Holocaust victims, going underground, monopoly on color stock, producer-director, Technicolor, UFA, Die goldene Stadt
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- Title Pages
- Author’s Note
-
Introduction Individualist in a Totalitarian State -
1 The Father -
2 The Son -
3 Youth Culture -
4 Lights, Camera, Action -
5 Kunz versus Cohn -
6 The Interview -
7 Telling Others How to Act -
8 Learning the Alphabet -
9 Prestige -
10 Politics -
11 The Girl in the Water -
12 Adultery -
13 The Trap -
14 The Catastrophe of Success -
15 Blood and Soil -
16 The German Soul -
17 Frenzy -
18 Opfergang -
19 Perseverance -
20 In the Ruins of the Reich -
21 The Trial -
22 The Second Trial -
23 Heimatfilm Noir -
24 Exile -
25 Youth Culture Revisited -
26 Exhaustion - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
-
Appendix Quotes on Harlan - Bibliography
- Index
- Series Information
- Plates