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Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882, Marienberg – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director. He directed his first silent film Clothes Make the Man, the adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller, in 1921. Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films, he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable films were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex (1933), an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth, and Ohm Krüger (1940), for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On April 20, 1945, during the last war days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid. The plane was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died.
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As director
Melusine
Gabriele Dambrone
Rembrandt
Uncle Krüger
Die Geierwally
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Gestern und heute
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
An Enemy of the People
A Woman of No Importance
The Old and The Young King
The Valley of Love
Decoy
The Island
Mother and Child
Freut Euch des Lebens
Vers l'abîme
Madame Wants No Children
Hitler Youth Quex
Love Must Be Understood
Don't Be Afraid of Love
Madame ne veut pas d'enfant
Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
My Leopold
The Carnival Fairy
Headlong into happiness
True Jacob
The Pranks
Everyone Has Their Chance
Love's Carnival