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Auction History Result 6d131 IMMENSEE German program '43 pretty Kristina Soderbaum, Carl Raddatz, directed by Veit Harlan Date Sold 3/29/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Film Program (measures 4" x 8 1/4" [10 x 21 cm]; 6 pages) (Learn More) Immensee, the 1943 Veit Harlan German romantic love triangle infidelity melodrama (based on the 1849 novella by Theodor Storm, which was one of Germany's best selling books ever; about an elderly man looking back on his life and remembering the girl he loved all his life, but she ended up marrying his best friend instead) starring Kristina Soderbaum (the wife of director Veit Harlan, and she starred in most of his movies after they were married), Carl Raddatz, Paul Klinger, Carola Toelle and Lina Lossen. The book this movie was based on had sold millions of copies, and the movie was incredibly successful, being seen by some 8 million people in 1943! Note that this movie is not on the "forbidden" list (even though it was directed by Veit Harlan, who directed "Jud Suss"), but it is thought to be a Nazi propaganda movie. Note that director Veit Harlan was one of the most infamous of the Nazi film directors, directing Jud Suss and many other virulent anti-Jewish Nazi movies during World War II. After the war, almost ALL of his movies were banned, not just the anti-Jewish ones, and he was put on trial for war crimes. But in 1950, after several trials, he was set free, and in 1951, he resumed making movies, making a dozen of them until his passing in 1964. Note that this is one of the few Veit Harlan movies that was not banned, likely because it was a non-political, non-controversial romantic melodrama. It was even shown in Sweden, Spain, and Portugal before the end of the war, but it was apparently never released in the U.S. or the U.K. That is somewhat surprising, given that the book the movie was based on sold many millions of copies over the century since it was first written, and it is a very powerful story (in the book, the elderly man looks back starting when he was a young boy, but to avoid having to use child actors, director Harlan started from when the lead characters were 18, and then artificially aged them). Perhaps there will be an American adaptation someday! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Baumann Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! Note that this program was published by Das Programm von Heute, a different type of program that is far more rare than the regularly seen German programs. The program has six pages, but it is printed on a large single sheet that is tri-folded (we have photographed both sides of the program completely unfolded). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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