Fritz Kirchhoff

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| name = Fritz Kirchhoff

| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|12|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hannover, German Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|6|25|1901|12|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Hamburg, West Germany

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| occupation = {{ubl|Film producer|Film director|Screenwriter}}

| yearsactive = 1937–1950 (director)

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Fritz Kirchhoff (1901–1953) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was a noted director during the Nazi era, directing film such as the anti-British propaganda thriller Attack on Baku (1942). His 1942 film 5 June, showing the German defeat of France in 1940, was banned by Joseph Goebbels for unclear reasons, although it has been speculated it was to avoid offending the Vichy government.{{sfn|Eltin|p=177}} After the Second World War Kirchhoff set up his own production company in Hamburg.

Selected filmography

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References

Bibliography

{{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}
{{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Eltin}} | editor-last = Eltin | editor-first = Richard A. | title = Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 2002 | location = Chicago | isbn = 978-0-226-22087-1 }}
{{cite book | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | location = Berkeley | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}

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{{IMDb name|0456281}}

Category:1901 births

Category:1953 deaths

Category:Film people from Hanover

Category:German male screenwriters

Category:20th-century German screenwriters