Fritz Kirchhoff

Years active1937–1950 (director)

Fritz Kirchhoff (1901–1953) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was a noted director during the Nazi era, directing film such as the anti-British propaganda thriller Attack on Baku (1942). His 1942 film 5 June, showing the German defeat of France in 1940, was banned by Joseph Goebbels for unclear reasons, although it has been speculated it was to avoid offending the Vichy government.^[1] After the Second World War Kirchhoff set up his own production company in Hamburg.

Selected filmography

Director

• Tango Notturno (1937)
• My Friend Barbara (1937)
• When Women Keep Silent (1937)
• Shadows Over St. Pauli (1938)
• Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth? (1939)
• Three Wonderful Days (1939)
• The Eternal Spring (1940)
• Attack on Baku (1942)
• 5 June (1942)
• When the Young Wine Blossoms (1943)
• A Wife for Three Days (1944)
• One Day (1945)
• Only One Night (1950)

Producer

• The Girl from the South Seas (1950)
• Maya of the Seven Veils (1951)
• The Thief of Baghdad (1952)
• I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1952)
• The Colourful Dream (1952)

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Eltin, Richard A., ed. (2002). Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-22087-1.
• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

External links

• Fritz Kirchhoff at IMDb