Official list - GERMANY - Films made during the Third Reich banned by the Allies after WWII
(In German: Liste der unter allierter Militärzensur verbotenen deutschen Filme)
After Nazi Germany unconditional surrender in 1945, the Allied Control Council responsible for film censorship issued a list of German and Austrian films forbidden to be shown to the general public, to prevent the propagation of Nazi ideology.
As of today, I have only seen 4 of the 175 films (2.29%)
After Nazi Germany unconditional surrender in 1945, the Allied Control Council responsible for film censorship issued a list of German and Austrian films forbidden to be shown to the general public, to prevent the propagation of Nazi ideology.
As of today, I have only seen 4 of the 175 films (2.29%)
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- DirectorArthur Maria RabenaltStarsRené DeltgenKirsten HeibergLotte KochSpies Karl and Lilly target the German Kettwig company, trying to secure data about an innovative tearproof wire. Bernd Kettwig is wooed by Lilly while his assistant Inge falls for Karl, and two other employees are coerced into treason.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsPaul HartmannAnnelies ReinholdClementia EgiesPrussian General Roedern is designing the top secret blueprints of a fortress. When one of the designs is found in the embassy of the hostile Austrians, Roedern is charged with treason. His lover Maria wants to join him in his confinement.
- DirectorPhilipp Lothar MayringStarsGustav FröhlichJutta FreybeKirsten HeibergDuring the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.
- DirectorAlfred AbelStarsGustav DiesslCharlotte SusaHarry FrankA British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner.Complications ensue.
- DirectorFred SauerStarsRalph Arthur RobertsHans Adalbert SchlettowEduard WesenerIn this comedy, a crude country girl from Poland is brought to Germany and turned into a fine lady by a cosmopolitan jeweler.
- DirectorIgo Martin AndersenStarsEdith LinnBernhard GoetzkeHans KettlerNazi propaganda film extolling the virtues of "Erbhofgesetz", a law that decreed that the oldest son in a farming family would always inherit the farm.
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsEmil JanningsWerner HinzLeopoldine KonstantinThe story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
- DirectorRobert A. StemmleStarsWilly FritschCarl KuhlmannKäthe von NagyA WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsLuise UllrichWerner KraussKäthe HaackA Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler.
- DirectorFritz Peter BuchStarsGisela UhlenVictor von ZitzewitzPaul BildtIn Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they spend their last romantic night together. Time goes by but one day when the pastor announces the names of the fallen villagers: Klaus is among them. Annemarie collapses while the congregation sings a funeral song.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsBrigitte HorneyJoachim GottschalkHans NielsenIn 1918 in Damascus a German garrison, allied with Turkey, holds out for a while against the British. Though they will ultimately abandon both the fort and colonial hopes in the Middle East, the film celebrates their heroism.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsMarianne HoppeHans SöhnkerFritz OdemarMichael and Franziska's relationship suffers from the separations brought on by his photojournalism. Only after Michael's colleague lay dying in his arms does he decide to go home, but is asked by Franziska to join the war: as a soldier.
- DirectorPaul WegenerStanislaw WasylewskiStarsMichael BohnenLil DagoverMarieluise ClaudiusAn egotistical Saxon monarch reclaims the throne of Poland from the Swedish Karl XII in 1709 with Russian help.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsFranziska KinzFerdinand MarianMaria LandrockBarbara rejects womanizer Dr. Deinert and marries Prof. Walter Helmerding who has two children from a first marriage. When Deinert flirts with Walter's teenage daughter Barbara tries to thwart what she perceives as his revenge mission.
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsPaul HartmannFriedrich KayßlerLil DagoverA biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
- DirectorCarl FroelichWalter SupperArzén von CserépyStarsOtto GebührOlga TschechowaElga BrinkThe story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
- DirectorWerner KlinglerStarsHeinrich GeorgeWalter BechmannRobert ForschA stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again
- DirectorFranz HoferRobert LandStarsPaul RichterElse ElsterGrit HaidAn Austrian nobleman, exiled in disgrace to America, returns at the outbreak of the Great War and joins two comrades marching off to the front.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWilly FritschMarte HarellTheo LingenPrince Alexander loves the commoner Vera and defies his uncle the Tzar as well as his peers by arranging his wedding. But Vera leaves him because she does not want to be the cause of him spending the rest of his life as a social outcast.
- DirectorJohannes MeyerStarsAlexander GollingOtto WernickeHerbert HübnerWWI thriller set on the Austro-Russian front. A long distance gun helps against the enemy,until a traitor, who needs to be found, gives signals to the whereabouts of the battery.
- DirectorGeorg ZochStarsJupp HusselsLudwig SchmitzMady RahlEduard Winkelmann, the owner of an apartment building in Munich, never tires of making life difficult for his renters. One day, a young woman, Erika, shows up at his door. She is the illegitimate daughter of a long-past love affair.
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsEmil JanningsMargarete SchönChristian KayßlerA sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.
- DirectorJoe StöckelStarsAribert MogHermann ErhardtGünther LüdersThis Forum Film Company comedy from Germany, directed by comedian Joe Stoeckle, focuses on a group of German soldiers billeted behind the lines in a captured French town during WW I, and was made only a couple of years before there would be a slew of German troops once again billeted in French towns. The best parts come when the attractive Leny Marenbach and Charlotte Daubert are serving as screen decorations. The comedy derives from such incidents as...when a soldier (the top-billed Guenther Lueders) goes rabbit hunting. But the Major shoots at the rabbit the same time as he does, and claims it. Adding insult to injury, the officer orders Lueders to cook it. Lueders finds a cat the same size as the rabbit and the Major and his staff get hasten-braten a la cat. The Major orders Lueders to sample the stew also.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsWalter SteinbeckHans BrausewetterRudolf Klein-RoggeShots fall at night at Gussersee Hotel. Hermann Brenken, general manager of a large company, is attacked. Newspapers hype up the case and offer a reward for its clarification.
- DirectorKarl LeiterStarsHans MoserLizzi HolzschuhGisa Wurm
- DirectorLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerJudith HolzmeisterBertl SchultesAn Austrian farmhand raises an army of rebels against the French invaders in the early 19th century and even tries to assassinate Napoleon himself, in Vienna.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsHans AlbersKäthe von NagyEugen KlöpferPropaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
- DirectorHans SchweikartStarsKäthe GoldEwald BalserFita Benkhoff
- DirectorJohannes MeyerStarsOtto GebührHilde KörberLil DagoverIn 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
- DirectorHerbert MaischStarsHeinrich GeorgeLil DagoverHorst CasparFriedrich Schiller - The triumph of a genius.
- DirectorMax W. KimmichStarsOlga TschechowaKarl Ludwig DiehlFerdinand MarianAn English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsHeinz RühmannAnny OndraWalter Steinbeck
- DirectorHerbert SelpinStarsAlexander GollingEva ImmermannRichard HäusslerNazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsWilly BirgelHilde WeissnerBernhard MinettiA patriotic military man foils a plot by anarchists against the government of an unnamed country, in this Nazi era propaganda drama.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsWilly FritschViktoria von BallaskoKarl MartellLieutenant von Warp falls head over heels for Terese. He wants to marry her and is willing to give up his career in the Imperial Army to be with her. After he gets to know about a past affair between the bride and a comrade, the story takes a dramatic turn.
- DirectorMax W. KimmichStarsPeter PetersenLuis TrenkerLotte KochStory of German medical missionaries helping the natives in Africa.
- DirectorJürgen von AltenStarsF.W. Schröder-SchromRolf MöbiusRudi GoddenA German who settles with his family in Australia starts to become worried that his son is being turned "decadent" by the evils of democracy.
- DirectorRobert A. StemmleStarsGustav FröhlichHeli FinkenzellerPaul HoffmannThe stationmaster in the Berlin subway falls for an unhappy young lady whose brother is a petty criminal.
- DirectorKarl HartlStarsHans AlbersFriedrich KayßlerBrigitte HelmAfter his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
- DirectorErich EngelsStarsFranz ArzdorfWilhelm BendowTraute BengenSoviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsKristina SöderbaumEugen KlöpferAnnie RosarAnna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City".
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsBrigitte HorneyWilly BirgelHannelore SchrothNazi propaganda drama about the failure of parliamentarism and the need to obey a strong leader.A high ranking military officer in an unnamed European land dissolves the government and his army takes over.
- DirectorHanns Beck-GadenStarsHanns Beck-GadenElsa KruegerKaethe ConseeAn energetic new customs officer gets his guards in shape to capture a smuggling band led by the owner of a nearby inn.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsOtto GebührKristina SöderbaumGustav FröhlichA story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great.
- DirectorRolf HansenStarsZarah LeanderGrethe WeiserViktor StaalDuring a leave in Berlin, Lieutenant Paul Wendlandt, a young Luftwaffe pilot, falls for Anna Holberg, a famous singer, who returns his love. But in time of war it is hard to live on love only. The lovers keep being separated on account of Paul's missions and their intended marriage ceremony is constantly postponed. To cap it all, misunderstanding sets in between Paul and Anna. Will they ever become the happy couple they deserve to be?
- DirectorKarl AntonStarsGustav FröhlichOtto WernickeCarola Höhn
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsHilde KrahlWerner HinzKarl JohnA passionate provincial photographer's rare photo is put on cover of famous journal. Hopeful, she goes to Berlin, for fame, but it eludes her. She finally gets it, and almost her man, to part ways, as he has only time for work, not love.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsErich DunskusMaria L. FodorovaJohannes SchützIn this Nazi propaganda film about the Hitler Youth, young German boys at a Hitler Youth recreation camp in Slovakia find themselves bored and irritated when bad weather confines them to their quarters. Things brighten up when the police inform them that a pair of escaped convicts are in the area, and the boys determine to catch them.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsZarah LeanderHeinrich GeorgeRuth Hellberg1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at church. The lady is welcomed by an enthusiastic welcome committee comprising the Prince of Imlingen himself. After a while Maddalena, who has come with her friend Rohrmoser, reveals that they are both of German origin. In fact, Maddalena is Magda von Schwartze, a citizen of Ilmingen who has left home in anger a few years before...
- DirectorLouis RalphStarsLouis RalphWilly Kaiser-HeylWerner FuettererA dramatization of the exploits of a German cruiser "Emden" during the Great War and of its captain, Von Mueller.
- DirectorJohannes MeyerStarsHans AlbersCharlotte SusaJack TrevorA German WWI aviator leaves what he sees as a decadent homeland and gets involved in Russia against the Communists.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsLeo SlezakHans SöhnkerIda WüstThe squabble of two small town neighbors over a drainage ditch goes to court.But troops garrisoned there intervene and a ball arranged by youth also helps to restore peace and quiet again.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsZarah LeanderWilly BirgelMaria KoppenhöferWhile awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsHeinrich GeorgePaul WegenerIlse Werner
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsLil DagoverKarl Ludwig DiehlHeli FinkenzellerA Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsLeo SlezakIda WüstMaria AndergastA slapstick comedy about a hen pecked husband and Prussian cavalry.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsMaria WanckaInge KickRuth EwelerGerman girls from differing walks of life come together to serve the Fatherland in the Bund deutscher Maedl, by harvesting crops,doing housework,acting as midwives, helping with handicrafts, and even singing songs.
- DirectorHubert MarischkaStarsMagda SchneiderPaul KempPál JávorSimultaneously filmed German version of a Hungarian romantic comedy.A singing, drinking, devil may care young man racks up debts but refuses to marry an heiress whose fortune would help restore his family's hopes.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsKristina SöderbaumCarl RaddatzPaul KlingerElisabeth and Reinhart were childhood sweethearts, but Reinhart never returned to marry Elisabeth and she marries another. Years later, Reinhart vacations with the couple and Elisabeth must choose between love and duty.Viewed on:
16-sep-2013 (Internet) - DirectorFranz OstenStarsFritz RaspCamilla SpiraMarianne HoppeAn Austrian farmhand betrays a nationalist rebel to the invading Napoleonic troops,in exchange for money he can use to become a landowner.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsKristina SöderbaumEugen KlöpferHermann BraunAnnie is an illegitimate child brought up by her uncle, a fanatical priest. After her first sexual experience, Annie is so overwhelmed by guilt, it profoundly affects the lives of those closest to her.
- DirectorAlfred WeidenmannStarsWilly FritschHerbert HübnerDietmar SchönherrPropagandist coming-of-age drama from Nazi Germany. The head of an aircraft factory sends his irresponsible son Theo, who crashed his car, to the factory's apprentice school, where he bonds with fellow student Baumchen and teacher Roth.
- DirectorKurt SkaldenStarsGustav SegatzAmalie MilkuhnBruno KleefeldEast Prussia in 1914: after clearing out Russian invaders who have devastated the countryside, German troops rest and find time for romance, in a peasant village.
- DirectorLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerViktoria von BallaskoWerner KunigA German-born Swiss citizen emigrates to the United States in search of a better life and making fortune. Based on the story of John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsSuse GrafAlbert LievenAlfred AbelIn the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what binds together the lives of such village folk.
- DirectorFritz Peter BuchStarsFritz ReiffHannes StelzerWilli SchurA son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen.
- DirectorHans DeppeStarsWilly FritschHertha FeilerHeinz SalfnerDr. Georg Rentmeister on vacation in Reichenhall (Bavaria) is going to meet his friend Karl in Salzburg (Austria). But due to foreign currency regulations he is only allowed to spend 10 Deutschmarks a month in Austria. After having spent the whole amount for a hat he purchased he is not able to pay the bill in a restaurant, where he assumed to meet his friend Karl who may have helped him out of this dilemma. So a young girl Konstanze who is pretending to be a parlor maid but is in fact a countess pays the bill. He falls for her so they decided to meet again. The reason for Konstanze being a parlor maid is, that her father earl Leopold von Raitenau has persuaded his family to open his castle to tourist guests with the family serving as the domestics to get some ideas for a new comedy he is going to write.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsJenny JugoGustav FröhlichRudi GoddenQuick-witted stewardess falls in love with a passenger, who turns out to be a prince.
- DirectorBerthold ViertelFritz WendhausenStarsHermann ThimigHertha ThieleViktor de KowaA young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsHenny PortenElse ElsterRotraut RichterWhen a poor tenant in a Berlin tenement is suspected of stealing coal from a cellar, she sets a trap to find the real thief.
- DirectorHeinz HelbigStarsOtto TreßlerIrene von MeyendorffFriedl HaerlinAnti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film that "shows" how Jewish textile company owners are sabotaging the German linen industry by buying linen from Ireland instead of having it produced in "the Fatherland".
- DirectorE.W. EmoStarsHans MoserTheodor DaneggerJoseph Egger
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsWolfgang LiebeneinerCarl EsmondMagda SchneiderVienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...Viewed on:
15-jun-2000 (Video) - DirectorPaul MartinStarsZarah LeanderFriedrich DominGustav KnuthWhen the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsAngela SallokerGustaf GründgensHeinrich GeorgeThe recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.
- DirectorRobert A. StemmleStarsGisela UhlenViktoria von BallaskoGustav KnuthFour workers help build the Autobahn, making sacrifices and helping night shift colleagues during an earthquake that causes a cave in on the road.
- DirectorPaul WegenerStarsKarl Ludwig DiehlHermann SpeelmansBrigitte HorneyOn the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
- DirectorVeit HarlanStarsHilde KörberHilde HildebrandAlfred AbelAn actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsPaula WesselyWilly BirgelPaul HörbigerThe 1848 Hungarian revolution of Kossuth is suppressed by an Austrian prince and a baroness who sympathizes with the rebels but tries to bring them around.
- DirectorMax W. KimmichStarsAnna DammannRené DeltgenPaul Wegener"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsViktor de KowaMaria AndergastPeter VoßAs the Austro-Hungarian empire comes closer to defeat in the Great War, a young lieutenant tries to rescue the standards of his Maria Isabell regiment from falling into enemy hands.
- DirectorFritz Peter BuchStarsGustav DiesslOlga TschechowaHannelore SchrothA propaganda movie trying to justify the Nazi invasion of Serbia with supposed violence of Serbs against the little German born community living among them. Serbia, March, 1941. Serbian army starts violence against the German community in Serbia. Vera Oswatic is a German woman from Serbia married to Alexander Oswatic, Slovenian from Serbia. Serbian officers stay on Oswatic's property, and while Serbian soldiers make ethnic cleaning of Germans, Vera tries to help her people by seducing Serbian captain Rakic. Vera's daughter Marie Luise, who's in love with German patriot, teacher Neubert, thinks that her mother is an internationalist who doesn't care for German people.
- DirectorKarl AntonStarsViktor de KowaErnst LeudesdorffPaul HartmannIn a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice.