The Higher Command

1935 film

For the British film, see The High 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]

## Synopsis[edit]

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

## Cast[edit]

* Lil Dagover as Madame Martin
* Karl Ludwig Diehl as Rittmeister von Droste
* Heli Finkenzeller as Käte Traß
* Friedrich Kayßler as General
* Eduard von Winterstein as Major
* Aribert Wäscher as Advokat Menecke
* Hans Leibelt as Bürgermeister Stappenbeck
* Hans Mierendorff as Earl of Beckhurst
* Gertrud de Lalsky as Majorin Traß
* Karl Dannemann as Wenzel Lukas, Bursche
* Siegfried Schürenberg as Lord Beckhurst
* Günther Ballier as Premierleutnant von Bodenheim
* Johannes Bergfeldt as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
* Gertrud Wolle as Frau Barth
* Walter Schramm-Duncker as Florian, Kutscher
* Heinz Könecke as Leutnant Eckartsberg
* Friedrich Franz Stampe as Wachtmeister Krim
* Arnim Suessenguth as Kreisgerichtsdirektor Barth
* Till Klockow as Tochter Barth
* Otti Dietze as Hotelwirtin
* Walter von Allwoerden as Vertauter des Earls
* Bertold Reissig as Mitarbeiter des Magistrats
* Robert Forsch as Apotheker Riggert
* Karl Hannemann as Holzhändler Miesling
* Leopold von Ledebur as Offizier
* Theodor Loos as Meneckes Mitarbeiter
* Werner Pledath as Kammerpräsident
* Volker von Collande as Bürger
* Claire Reigbert as Dame beim Empfang

## References[edit]

1. ^ Kreimeier p. 277–278
2. ^ Kreimeier p. 278
3. ^ Kreimeier p. 277

## Bibliography[edit]

* 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.

## External links[edit]

* The Higher Command at IMDb

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Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht

* The Graveyard of the Living (1921)
* The Buddenbrooks (1923)
* The House Without Laughter (1923)
* And Yet Luck Came (1923)
* The Other Woman (1924)
* The Hanseatics (1925)
* Slums of Berlin (1925)
* Children of No Importance (1926)
* People to Each Other (1926)
* Sister Veronika (1927)
* The Catwalk (1927)
* Under the Lantern (1928)
* The Old Fritz (1928)
* The Man with the Frog (1929)
* Different Morals (1931)
* Between Night and Dawn (1931)
* Emil and the Detectives (1931)
* The Black Hussar (1932)
* Spies at Work (1933)
* What Men Know (1933)
* Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
* A Day Will Come (1934)
* Princess Turandot (1934)
* Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
* The Higher Command (1935)
* One Too Many on Board (1935)
* A Strange Guest (1936)
* Madame Bovary (1937)
* The Yellow Flag (1937)
* The Gambler (1938)
* Woman in the River (1939)
* The Girl at the Reception (1940)
* Clarissa (1941)
* Diesel (1942)
* The Noltenius Brothers (1945)
* Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
* Quartet of Five (1949)
* Madonna in Chains (1949)
* The Angel with the Flaming Sword (1954)
* Sergeant Borck (1955)

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