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.:: Kolberg.1945.COMPLETE.NTSC.DVDR-99T ::.

Movie Name........ Kolberg
Theater Release... 1945-01-30
DVD Retail Date... 2004
Release Date...... 2007-01-30
Source............ DVD5 Retail
Genre............. Drama / History / War
Type.............. DVD-R NTSC
Format............ .iso
RARs.............. 91 x 50 MB
Runtime........... 107 min
IMDB.............. 5.0/10 (153 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036989/

"One of the Third Reich's most ambitious spectaculars, three years
in the making, mobilized Germany's most talented artists and
thousands of extras to re-create the true story of a Prussian
town's rebellion against Napoleon's army of occupation. Laced with
anti-Christian symbolism and National Socialist ideology, the film
is a mirror of Hitler Germany's own war for survival. In its
characterization of Kolberg's besieged citizenry, the epic
allegorically reflects the spirit of fanatical resolve to fight on,
that Nazi propaganda was attempting to instill in the German
population during the final years of World War II. The film was
directed by Veit Harlan, with music by Norbert Schultze."

www.ihffilm.com

Kolberg was one of the very last German feature films completed
during WW2. It was shot entirely in Agfacolor, the newly invented
and very expensive colour process that was Germany's answer to the
world famous Technicolor, although the quality of its colour
representation on the screen was vastly inferior. Unlike most other
Agfacolor movies produced during 1939-45, this one remains intact.

Some sources claim that among the extras were some fifteen to
twenty thousand Wehrmacht troops, withdrawn from battle on the
Eastern front just to participate in this gigantic film project.
Other estimates say that no more than five thousand troops could
have been used.

The final cut was substantially shortened by orders of Dr. Goebbels
himself, the propaganda minister of the Third Reich. Images of
civilians suffering the hardships of war could affect the morale
of the viewers in a negative way, he reasoned.

Heinrich George......... Nettelbeck, Mayor of Kolberg
Kristina Söderbaum...... Maria
Paul Wegener............ Loucadou
Horst Caspar............ Gneisenau
Gustav Diessl........... Schill
Otto Wernicke........... Werner
Irene von Meyendorff.... Queen Louise
Kurt Meisel............. Claus
Claus Clausen........... Frederick William III
Jaspar von Oertzen...... Prince Louis Ferdinand
Jakob Tiedtke........... Reeder
Paul Bildt.............. Rector
Franz Schafheitlin...... Fanselow
Hans Hermann Schaufuss.. Zaufke
Paul Henckels........... Mayor of Königsberg
Charles Schauten........ Napoleon
Heinz Lausch............ Friedrich
Franz Herterich......... Emperor Franz II

ASPECT & STANDARD              AUDIO

[ ] 1.78:1  [ ] 1.85:1         [ ] English    [ ] DTS 6.1
[ ] 2.35:1  [x] 1.33:1         [ ] French     [ ] DTS 5.1
[x] German     [ ] DD 5.1
[ ] PAL                        [ ] Swedish    [ ] DD 2.0
[x] NTSC                       [ ] Yiddish    [x] DD 1.0

Region: 0                      [ ] Commentary track

SUBTITLES/INTERTITLES

[x] English       [ ] Swedish      [ ] Spanish       [ ] Dutch
[ ] Danish        [ ] German       [ ] Polish        [ ] Italian
[ ] Norwegian     [ ] French       [ ] Hebrew        [ ] Finnish
[ ] Icelandic     [ ] Hungarian    [ ] Portuguese    [ ] Czech
[ ] Bulgarian     [ ] Romanian     [ ] Turkish       [ ] Arabian

VIDEO               MENU                DVD-EXTRAS

[x] Untouched       [x] Untouched       [x] Untouched
[ ] Re-Encoded      [ ] Stripped        [ ] Stripped
[ ] Re-Encoded      [ ] Partial strip
[ ] Re-Encoded

NOTES

This is the restored version of the film that was digitally
remastered by International Historic Films in 2004.

Extras include photo gallery with commentary, Joseph Goebbels' 1943
Total War Speach newsreel, and actors' biographies.

This release has been tested on

[ ] Pioneer DV490       [ ] Samsung DVD-HD860
[ ] Pioneer 444         [x] Samsung DVD-M205
[x] Philips DVP-3010    [ ] Xbox

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Jag får inte släppa gasen för då stannar han. Han orkar så länge
man varvar över fem och ett halvt tusen."

O. Strömberg, 1982