Ordered to Love

Ordered to Love

1961 · 87 min · ★ 3.6 · Drama, History

Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."

Directed by Werner Klingler · Written by Heinz Oskar Wuttig

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Maria Perschy Doris Korff
Joachim Hansen Oberlt. Klaus Steinbach
Harry Meyen Hauptsturmführer Dr. Hagen
Marisa Mell Erika Meuring
Emmerich Schrenk Obersturmbandführer Meyer-Westroff
Joachim Mock Hauptsturmführer Kempe
Gert Günther Hoffmann Oberlt. Mertens
Waldemar Tepel SS Sturmführer Hellmich
Rosemarie Kirstein Lotte
Renate Küster Marlene
Hellmut Lange Oberscharführer Niedermeyer
Horst Keitel Oberlt. Adameit

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