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Director
  
Gerhard Klein

Duration
  

Country
  
East Germany

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, History, Thriller

Language
  
German

The Gleiwitz Case movie poster

Writer
  
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
,
Gunther Rucker

Release date
  
22 April 1961 (1961-04-22)

Cast
  
Hannjo Hasse
(Alfred Naujocks),
Christoph Beyertt
(Volksdeutscher Franz Sitte),
Wolfgang Kalweit
(Volksdeutscher Hans-Wilhelm Kraweit),
Georg Leopold
(Volksdeutscher Franz Wyczorek),
Herwart Grosse
(Gestapochef Müller),
Heinz Behrens
(Offizier)

Genres
  
War film, Drama, Thriller, World cinema, Historical drama

Written by
  
Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Gunther Rucker

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The Gleiwitz Case (German: Der Fall Gleiwitz) is an East German war film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1961. The plot was reconstructed exactly according to the statemens of SS-Man Alfred Naujocks before British authorities at the Nuremberg trials.

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The Gleiwitz Case movie scenes

Cast

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  • Hannjo Hasse as Alfred Helmut Naujocks
  • Christoph Bayertt as Franz Sitte
  • Wolfgang Kalweit as Hans-Wilhelm Kraweit
  • Georg Leopold as Franz Wyczorek
  • Herwart Grosse as Heinrich Müller
  • Rolf Ripperger as Bieratzki
  • Manfred Günther as Kühnel
  • Rudolf Woschiek as Tutzauer
  • Hilmar Thate as Sachsenhausen inmate
  • Rolf Ludwig as SS doctor
  • Friedrich Richter as Jewish professor
  • Günter Naumann as SS man
  • Paul-Dolf Neis as SD chief in Gleiwitz
  • Werner Dissel as teacher

    • Plot

    The film themes the SS stage-managed Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz at the evening of 31.8.1939. This served national-socialist propaganda as a pretext to start second World War by raiding Poland the next day.

    References

    The Gleiwitz Case Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Gleiwitz Case IMDb The Gleiwitz Case themoviedb.org