A German Robinson Crusoe

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

A German Robinson Crusoe - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Ein Robinson)

A German Robinson Crusoe
German film poster

German	Ein Robinson

Directed by	Arnold Fanck
Written by	Arnold Fanck Rolf Meyer
Produced by	Oskar Marion Wilhelm Sperber
Starring	Herbert A.E. Böhme Marieluise Claudius Claus Clausen
Cinematography	Sepp Allgeier Albert Benitz Hans Ert
Edited by	Arnold Fanck Johannes Lüdke
Music by	Werner Bochmann
Production company	Bavaria-Filmkunst
Distributed by	Bavaria-Filmverleih
Release date	25 April 1940 (1940-04-25) (Germany)
Running time	81 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

A German Robinson Crusoe (German: Ein Robinson) is a 1940 German drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Herbert A.E. Böhme, Marieluise Claudius, and Claus Clausen. Written by Arnold Fanck and Rolf Meyer, the film is a modern-day Robinson Crusoe story about a man so angry about the post-World War I conditions in Weimar Germany that he voluntarily goes to live on a desert island. The film was shot partly on location in South America.^[1]

Plot

During World War I, the German cruiser SMS Dresden is attacked by British ships off the coast of Chile. The crew manage to abandon ship before it sinks. They make their way to an isolated island where they are taken prisoner. After spending three years in custody, the sailors manage to escape and make their way back to Germany, intending to continue fighting for their Fatherland. When they arrive, however, they encounter a different Germany from the one they left behind—one where they are ridiculed and attacked by mutineers.

One of the returning crew, Carl Ohlse, leaves Weimar Germany and returns to the island where he had been held prisoner for three years, determined to live out the rest of his life as a Robinson Crusoe. Some time later, he hears a radio report that describes how things have improved in Germany during the 1930s. Later, when the new SMS Dresden passes the island, he makes his way to the ship and is taken aboard by his new respectful comrades.

Cast

Herbert A.E. Böhme as Carl Ohlsen
Marieluise Claudius as Antje
Claus Clausen as Fritz Grothe
Oskar Marion as captain
Malte Jäger as officer
Wilhelm P. Krüger as Pagels
Otto Kronburger as commander
Wolf Dietrich as officer
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy as sailor
Leopold Kerscher as sailor
Martin Rickelt as sailor Peter
Georg Völkel as 1. officer
Hans Kühlewein as Obermaat
Charly Berger as staff surgeon
Günther Polensen as sailor
Hans-Joachim Fanck as little Peter

Production

A German Robinson Crusoe was directed by Arnold Fanck.^[2]

Release

It was banned from being shown in Germany by the Allied High Commission after World War II.^[2]

References

^ Hake, Sabine (2009). Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim (eds.). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 372. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dm6. ISBN 978-1571816559. JSTOR j.ctt1x76dm6. S2CID 252868046.
^ ^a ^b Kelson 1996, p. 17.

Works cited

Kelson, John (1996). Catalogue of Forbidden German Feature and Short Film Productions held in Zonal Film Archives of Film Section, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany, (BE) (2 ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0948911190.

External links

A German Robinson Crusoe at IMDb

Films directed by Arnold Fanck

This article related to a German film of the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.