Hans Steinhoff

Director · 1882–1945 · Marienberg, Saxony, Germany

Biography

Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882, Marienberg – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director. He directed his first silent film Clothes Make the Man, the adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller, in 1921. Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films, he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable films were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex (1933), an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth, and Ohm Krüger (1940), for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On April 20, 1945, during the last war days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid. The plane was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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1940s

1944
Melusine
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1943
Gabriele Dambrone
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1942
Rembrandt
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1941
Uncle Krüger
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1940
Die Geierwally
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1930s

1939
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
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1938
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
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1937
An Enemy of the People
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1936
A Woman of No Importance
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1935
The Valley of Love
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The Old and The Young King
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1934
Decoy
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The Island
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Vers l'abîme
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Freut Euch des Lebens
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Mother and Child
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1933
Don't Be Afraid of Love
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Hitler Youth Quex
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Love Must Be Understood
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Madame ne veut pas d'enfant
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Madame Wants No Children
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1932
Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
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1931
My Leopold
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The Pranks
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True Jacob
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The Carnival Fairy
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Headlong into happiness
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1930
Everyone Has Their Chance
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Love's Carnival
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1920s

1929
The Alley Cat
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1928
Fear
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The Girl from Spree Woods
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1927
Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein
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Girls for Sale!
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1926
Schwiegersöhne
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Frau Sopherl vom Naschmarkt
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1925
Gräfin Mariza
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1924
Mensch gegen Mensch
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