Review of Our Flags Lead Us Forward

Yes That's what it is now ,these days. Big corporate distributes and corporate broadcasters don't want to touch controversy. Germany still fearful of Hitler rising from the grave , has this,as well others banned from public viewing. These classic are now exploitation ,as a result.But the low budget of the film and the shooting style is the what exploitation films would be made later.Hienrichs Georges performance as the alcoholic commie father is excellent. Wanting his son Heini, played by Jurgen Ohlsen,to go to commie camp with the other good little commie kids. The commie pusher ,played by Herman Speelman,trying to push his son into this madness of political correctness. His Mother, played by Berta Drews, just concerned about her husband being unemployed and on relief, messing up their budget when he wants to go out and drink. He agrees to go to commie camp with the other hooligans. He almost ends up growing up before his time ,as every young camper drinks ,smoke cigars and eat bread, french bread and loosing their virginity.He rejects this stuff and runs into the woods only finding Hitlers boy scouts and their perfections. Well organized. Wearing brown and red color costumes. No drinking or smoking. Just swimming cooking and doing and marching around singing about Hitler.Yes that's the life he wants.His job at a printer is so boring.Herman starts to look for him calling him in the woods,Munchausen would be ashamed of Christian pushing innocent little boys into becoming Commies.He hitches a ride back home. He tell his mother about. She gets upset by it. He starts singing about Hitler, His father , Hienrich, hears it and gets mad with him and starts back slapping him until he starts to sing about Stalin. He later signs a piece of paper, by Speelman , to put his son in the Commie party. But he doesn't want this. The commies planning to make trouble with the brownies, at their club. Heini is an innocent by stander and Herman in forms him what they are going to do. The commie hoodlums then try to beat up the Nazi hoodlums until the ,"Polizie,"starts to come up. They get Heine, after they chased the hoodlums except a few of them. The Brownies try to tell the Polizie that they were being Harassed, They are let go. Heine is viewed as an innocent by stander so the Polizie lets him go too.The brownies fuss at him for the cause of the problem. He tries to explain things.Then later he learns that the commies are going to try it again. So He calls up one of the brownies to inform them.He carries it off when he scares the commies from doing anything through informing against them.When he tells his mother how he informed for the Nazis. This upsets his mother so she tries to kill him. He survives it and Mutter dies.The brownies come up to meet him at the hospital,with his father. They surprise him with a uniforms.Later ,as his mother is now dead. PaPa Vater has sold most of the furniture so he can have more beer money, visits his son and the Nazi scout master talks it over with him that Germany would be better off under Hitler.Now Hienie goes to Nazi boarding school, learning the trade. One day as he bought beer for the Nazi scout master ,at Schultz's beer garden as Usual,he get threats from Herman if he don't quit the Nazis. Eventually The red riding hoods chases after the new brownie and stabs him to death. This plot looks like it's based on Hitlers life. It looks similar. It's hilarious and campy, like the fictitious play in the producers. I doubt if T.c.m. will ever show this, since they are politically correct and don't want to pay the 375 dollar public performance fee. Available at Reich Kino and I.h.f. and War films dot come 09/24/11