Operation Teutonic Sword

An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander I and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Drawing on archival footage and documents, it scrutinizes Speidel’s past and postwar career, provoking controversy and a ban in West Germany. The film won First Prize at the 1958 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Heinrich Greif Prize in East Germany.

• Annelie ThorndikeDirector
• Andrew ThorndikeDirector
• Annelie ThorndikeWriter
• Andrew ThorndikeWriter
• Günther RückerWriter

• Eckart FriedrichsonSprecher