Earl Rothkirchs war, NDR documentary (DVD)

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Earl Roth Kirch war, NDR documentary (DVD)

He was noble, he was an officer, and he had two great passions, a classic, the cavalry, and a very modern, the Home Movie: Edwin Graf Rothkirch. With a small camera he documented over the years, his own life and that of his family. A passion that he brought on his son Leopold.

For this private footage of the author Karsten Rau mounted with incorporation of statements of the Son, of witnesses and of quotations from original military records a unique documentation. Visible the passage of a Prussian officer, to Hitler's Wehrmacht is: the political vacillation between the aversion to brown "proles" and the chance to Versailles, but still make career. Rothkirch wanted to remain blameless and yet made ​​from SS officers - but in civilian clothes. He had doubts and participated nonetheless Hitler's war - in the end, even as a general.

Roth Kirch's subjective view movie shows his way out of the tranquil town regiment Ludwigslust over Austria, the Sudetenland, Poland, France and Russia. Behind the front organizes horse shows and films, he documented the death of the enemy in the snow and the daily lives of the soldiers. Rothkirch turned to the end of the war. His last pictures show refugees from East Prussia on the way west.

The main movie has a running time of 45 minutes. As extras, the DVD offers three bonus films with a running time of 60 minutes:
Interview with Count Leopold "Poldi" Rothkirch
Interview with Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager
Original footage from the Rothkirch archive

Running time: 45 minutes + 60 minutes of bonus movies
Image: 4: 3
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
Languages: German
Subtitle: none
Regional Code: PAL 0
EAN-Code: 4028032071245
Rated: from 16 years
Release Date: 15.11.2005

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