Curious propaganda that includes good dance numbers, forbidden music (jazz) and nudity in order to attract the audience. Soviet authorities used the same tricks in order to entice people to watch their propaganda films exposing “bourgeois” decadence and immorality.
1941
Blood Brothers
Blutsbrüderschaft (Original Title)
Blutsbrüderschaft (Blood Brotherhood) is a 1941 German National Socialist propaganda film directed by Philipp Lothar Mayring. The story begins on the last day of World War I and follows the lives of two soldiers who bond in battle and try later on to find their purpose in the Weimar republic. The soldiers' eventual salvation is found in the National Socialist movement, which provides them with a new sense of purpose and restores their honor after the humiliation of the defeat in WWI.
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