The Higher Command

The Higher Command
Directed by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Written by	Kurt Kluge Karl Lerbs Philipp Lothar Mayring
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Starring	Lil Dagover Karl Ludwig Diehl Heli Finkenzeller Friedrich Kayßler
Cinematography	Robert Baberske Curt Courant
Edited by	Milo Harbich
Music by	Werner Eisbrenner Hermann Schulenburg
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	30 December 1935 (1935-12-30)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Higher Command (German: Der höhere Befehl) is a 1935 German historical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Lil Dagover, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Heli Finkenzeller. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was shot at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle.

It was produced around the time of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement when the German government were still optimistic about forming an alliance with the British and saw the film as a way of recalling the historic Anglo-Prussian partnership in liberating Europe from Napoleon.^[1] The film was praised by the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as "a national and engrossing film".^[2]

During the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian army officer assists a British diplomat to construct an alliance to defeat Napoleon's France.^[3]

• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

• The Higher Command at IMDb

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