A Hopeless Case

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A Hopeless Case
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Directed by Erich Engel
Written by Jochen Huth
Produced by Eberhard Klagemann
Starring
Cinematography Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by Carl Otto Bartning
Music by Hans-Otto Borgmann
Production
company
Klagemann-Film
Release date
  • 7 March 1939 (1939-03-07)
CountryGermany
Language German

A Hopeless Case (German : Ein hoffnungsloser Fall) is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Jenny Jugo, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Hannes Stelzer. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by Karl Weber.

Synopsis

A determined female medical student at Berlin University resists the advances of her professor, single-mindedly concentrating on her chosen profession. She then sails to Argentina with her true love, fellow student who the Professor has arranged to be sent there to try and get out of the way.

Cast

Trivia

On 14 March 1939, Adolf Hitler summoned Emil Hácha, President of Czechoslovakia to Berlin for talks. The meeting was scheduled late at night and was to include, apart from Hitler, Hermann Göring and Joachim von Ribbentrop. The elderly Hácha was humiliated by being deliberately kept waiting for hours, because Hitler was at that time watching the film A Hopeless Case, which ended past midnight. He was summoned by Hitler at 1:15 AM, who informed him that German troops would march into Czechoslovakia at 6:00 AM, on the pretext that the Czechs were disturbing the peace in Europe. In the antechamber, Göring and Ribbentrop pressed Hácha to sign a document legalizing the invasion. When Hácha hesitated, Göring threatened to bomb Prague, whereupon Hácha fainted. Revived by injection, Hácha signed a document in the presence of Hitler accepting the invasion and annexation of Czech lands into the Third Reich, which began in the early morning of 15 March 1939. [2]

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References

  1. Waldman p. 222
  2. Pinkus, Oscar (2005). The War Aims and Strategies of Adolf Hitler. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-2054-4.

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