Gestern und heute
{{short description|1938 film}}
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| director = Hans Steinhoff
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| music = Peter Kreuder
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| released = {{Film date|1938}}
| runtime = 11 minutes
| country = Nazi Germany
| language = German
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Gestern und heute (English: Yesterday and Today) is a 1938 German Nazi propaganda short film directed by Hans Steinhoff and Ben Keim at the Reichspropagandaleitung.
Plot summary
The documentary film contrasts Germany in the days before Adolf Hitler became chancellor with the current (late 1930s) day Germany and how it has improved. The film was widely popularized by German propagandist Ben Keim by order of Josef Goebbels.{{cite web|title=Gestern und heute (1938)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247377/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_8|website=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=24 June 2014}}
Soundtrack
Music in the film was composed by German-Austrian Peter Kreuder.
See also
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0247377|title=Gestern und heute}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=gestern-und-heute-1938|name=Gestern und heute}}
References
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{{Hans Steinhoff}}
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Category:1938 short documentary films
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:German short documentary films
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Black-and-white documentary films
Category:Films directed by Hans Steinhoff
Category:Films scored by Peter Kreuder
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