Carl Peters

Carl Peters

1941 · 110 min · ★ 5.8 · History, Drama

National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.

Directed by Herbert Selpin · Written by Walter Zerlett-Olfenius

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Hans Albers Dr. Carl Peters
Fritz Odemar Graf Pfeil
Herbert Hübner Leo Kayser
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer Wehr-Bandelin
Erika von Thellmann Frau Kayser
Hans Leibelt Prof. Karl Engel
Reinhold Bernt Unteroffizier Hansen
Jack Trevor British Consul
Philipp Manning Sir Anthony Cerry
Rolf Prasch Kaiser Wilhelm I
Bayume Mohamed Husen Ramasan

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