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Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz (1999)

Directed by Ulrich Stoll

Documentary, Animation · 34m

The order comes in the summer of 1941 from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is retraced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi”, a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful multiplane technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, live action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the Third Reich.

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Cast

Matthias Ponnier Narrator
B
Bernd Kuschmann Narrator
R
Rainer Pause Narrator
G
Gerhard Fieber himself
H
Heinz Kaskeline himself
P
Peter Schauer himself
H
Hans Fischerkösen jr. himself
O
Oskar Sala himself

Crew

Director
Ulrich Stoll
Editor
Nina von Kreisler
Producer
Hinnerick Bröskamp

Details

Release date
1999-01-01
Runtime
34m
Genres
Documentary, Animation
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany
Production
De Campo Film, WDR, ARTE, TrickStudio Lutterbeck