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Since the beginning of cinematography the filmmakers have been using historical plots. But, as a rule, it has always been a mythologised version that was shown, and not the real one. That tendency has not changed, and therefore films have always been an important source for historians to do research into the state of social consciousness at the moment when the film in question was being created. This phenomenon is quite visible in the German cinema in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, i.e. in times of the socio-economic crisis and the triumph of the totalitarian state. Among all the Prussian characters in the films made in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich the favourite one was Frederick II. He was much more popular than – for example – Bismarck, another outstanding figure in the Prussian history.
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Born in Szczecin Heinrich George was one of the most outstanding theatre and cinema actors of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He appeared in the films that played an important part in the history of the cinema (Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, 1927; Berlin-Alexanderplatz directed by Phil Jutzi, 1931). When Hitler seized power in Germany, Heinrich George supported the Nazi regime in spite of his leftist convictions. After 1933 he appeared in many films both neutral in their meaning and the ones that were a pure Nazi propaganda such as Jud Süss directed by Veit Harlan. Heinrich George arouses controversy even in the present-day Germany. Appreciating his achievements as an actor it is not possible to ignore his involvement in Nazism.
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