Deutsche Helden
About Deutsche Helden
Wendhorst keeps Germany’s secrets until his wife lets them out. He leaves her and goes to the front. Two prisoners he listens to are that wife and a son he has never met. The son joins him and is killed. Only Wendhorst comes home. Franz Hofer wrote and directed the war drama. A second title is Um des Lebens Glück betrogen.
Cast & crew
More about Deutsche Helden
Max Maschke produced it for Luna-Film in Berlin. Gotthardt Wolf photographed it. Fritz Kraencke designed the sets. Filmportal records a censorship review in November 1914. Wikidata times a copy at 43 minutes.
Themes
Background
The picture was cleared by the censor in November 1914, three months into the war, and the soldier it sends home has not changed his mind.
Making
Hofer shot a home-front betrayal and a trench reunion for Luna-Film in the first autumn of the war, and the board passed it in November.
Look
Gotthardt Wolf shot the secret, the front, and the return.
Notes
- Mia Cordes, Rudolf del Zopp, Max Laurence, Dorrit Weixler, and Carl Zickner are the billed names.
- The son dies in the fighting. The father is the one who returns.
- An Internet Archive copy is filed as silent-deutsche-helden.
- The aspect ratio on Wikidata is 4:3, black and white.
Scenes
- Wendhorst leaves after his wife lets the secret out.
- The two prisoners are his wife and the son he has not met.
- The son is killed, and Wendhorst is the one who returns.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-deutsche-helden)
