Germanin - Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat (1943) Poster

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Luis Trenker plays a heroic German doctor in Africa
Lars-658 April 2001
A German doctor in Africa discovers and proves the efficacy of a cure for sleeping sickness- a serum called `Germanin'- despite British harassment during and after World War One. Made during World War Two, this movie – with strong anti-British undertones – features the famous Austrian mountain climber Luis Trenker in the role of the German doctor.
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interesting propaganda film
cynthiahost11 March 2011
Warning: Spoilers
After looking at the movie, I checked the Irish review and the American review. The American reviewer had explain the historical facts what had happen behind the camera. while the one in Irland was probably not aware that concentration campers were force to participate. This American viewer wasn't being helpful. He was a phony liberal, political correctionist, promoting censorship against history in the name of tolerance. He was trying to intimidate movie fans not to look at films made under the third Reich, Sh- hits the fan thats a fact.In the early years of Lennie Riefenstalls making of Tiefland , she used Romnies from a concentration camp. Years later one of the gypsies who was in the film stated that she had treated them right. One concentration camp women was used as a stand in for Marika Rokk in Kora Terry. Fortunatley she never went back to it. Big third Reich star Joachim Gotchalk ,he and his Jewish wife and kid committed suicide because he did not want to break up with his family.Renate Muller did not want to became a Nazi propaganda star. The gestapo either pushed her off the balcony of her home or she did it herself, Sh- hits the fan back then. It has to be excepted in peace even though it was wrong.Once again Lotti Koch showed up again as the assistant nurse for the professor. A deadly sleeping disease is hitting Africa. The Doctor is trying to find a cure. It's world war 1.A disease cause by the tinsie flies. At the same time Louise Trenk, who was member of the Nazi party but did not follow their rules,is in Afrika collecting animals for a zoo? all of a sudden he gets a letter about cancellation of the animals. He tell the African servant to let all the animals out. He gets attacked . He ends up at the doctors place. As soon as he recovers the doctor tells him what he's trying to do . Trenk happens to be a doctor too. Later the British invade Africa and burns the villages including the doctors hut down. After the war the doctors is still trying to search for a cure ,now in ,now in Berlin. All of a sudden ,in the winter on a traffic wait, Lotti and Trenk rediscover each other. As she takes her to her bosses clinic, He decides to infest himself with the tinsie flies.He locks the door up not to let her in while he puts his arms in the place where the flies are at.Thanks to this the doctor is able to find a cure . so they go all the way back to Afrika to cure the natives. He eventually runs out of the formula and gets the disease, But Lotti fines some left over medicine for him. Only to sacrifice it to another sick person. this wasn't Luis Trenk mountain films but the dark continent was just as vast for the actor. Lottie Koch might have been a minor star at that time. There were a lot of them in world war two, with the main tops Zarah Leander and Marika Rokk
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