| S.A.-Mann Brand | |
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| Directed by | Franz Seitz Sr. |
| Written by | Curt J. Braun Joe Stöckel |
| Produced by | Franz Seitz Sr. |
| Starring | Heinz Klingenberg Wera Liessem Rolf Wenkhaus |
| Edited by | Gottlieb Madl |
| Music by | Toni Thoms |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
S.A.-Mann Brand (Storm Trooper Brand) is a German film made around the time that Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. It was released in mid-June 1933.
The film presents the story of a truck driver, Fritz Brand, who joins the Nazi Sturmabteilung to defend Germany against communist subversion orchestrated from Moscow. He persuades his social circle of the imminent danger and the need to support Hitler in the federal election.
S.A.-Mann Brand was the first feature-length film by the Nazis to cover the SA. It was filmed in Munich by Bavaria Film under the direction of Franz Seitz Sr. and a low budget. It was one of three propaganda films about the rise of the Nazi Party, along with Hitlerjunge Quex and Hans Westmar , made in 1933. [1] It was written by Joe Stöckel. Over 1,600 extras were used for the film. [2]
The film was approved by censors on 9 June 1933, and released on 14 June. [3] An incident occurred at opening night at the Gloria-Palast where thousands of SA and SS members walked out at the orders of Adolf-Heinz Beckerle. Beckerle claimed that the publicity posters were created by a Polish person and ordered them removed, but the owners of Gloria-Palast refused to. [4] It was released in the United States as A Romance of Our Day. [2]
A review in The New York Times noted favorably the film's production value and the absence of any anti-Semitic message but also expressed contempt for its unsophisticated plot. [5] The film performed poorly even with the Nazi press as Der Angriff criticized Seitz for not having "the talent nor the competence necessary for a film of this importance". [6]
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