Hans Westmar

Hans Westmar

1933 · 95 min · ★ 5.6 · Crime

Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.

Directed by Franz Wenzler · Written by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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