The Fugitive from Chicago (digital quality)
1934

The Fugitive from Chicago (digital quality)

Der Flüchtling aus Chicago (Original Title)

"The Fugitive from Chicago" (German: "Der Flüchtling aus Chicago"), released in 1934, is a comedy-drama film directed by Johannes Meyer. The story follows Werner Dux, a gambler and heir to the Dux-Werke auto plant, who is arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. In jail, he learns of his father's death, which left the company without a leader. Werner convinces his friend Michael, an engineer, to impersonate him and run the business while he's in jail. Michael successfully turns the business around, but Werner faces the dilemma of returning to Germany to claim his inheritance or staying in the US.

1h 48min
January 31, 1934
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Well-made and entertaining film. National socialists, in portraying a factory owner, Nissen (Frohlich), emphasized their view of a society as one family with no class divisions, where capitalists and their workers have common interests and share profits, where the main cause for a capitalist should be the welfare of his workers and the well-being of his country. It looks like that the National socialist economical ideology viewed modern/global economical/financial tools like mergers and acquisitions with suspicion. In their opinion mergers and acquisitions lead to reduced production, layoffs and management lining their pockets. They were not far from the truth.

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