Lightning Around Barbara
{{short description|1941 film}}
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| name = Lightning Around Barbara
| image =File:Lightning Around Barbara.jpg
| caption =
| director = Werner Klingler
| producer = Rolf Randolf
| writer = Harald G. Petersson
Hanns Saßmann
| narrator =
| starring = Sybille Schmitz
Attila Hörbiger
Maria Koppenhöfer
| music = Herbert Windt
| cinematography = Sepp Allgeier
| editing = Roger von Norman
| studio = Rolf Randolf-Film
| distributor = Märkische-Panorama-Schneider
| released ={{Film date|1941|10|17|df=yes}}
| runtime = 81 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
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Lightning Around Barbara (German: Wetterleuchten um Barbara) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Sybille Schmitz, Attila Hörbiger and Maria Koppenhöfer.Bock & Bergfelder p.426 It is a heimatfilm with Nazi propaganda overtones, set in the Tyrol region of Austria in the year of the Anschluss.Richards p.310 It was shot at the Schönbrunn and Sievering Studios in Vienna and on location around Steinach am Brenner.Klaus p.288-89 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Heinrich Richter.
Synopsis
In 1938, underground members of the Nazi movement in the Tyrol region face suppression from the Austrian Heimwehr. Martin Stammer and others flee across the border into Nazi Germany for shelter. In his absence his wife is forced to accuse him of murder in order to save her friend in a court trial. Her dilemma is resolved when her husband returns as part of the invading Germany forces.
Cast
- Sybille Schmitz as Barbara Stammer
- Attila Hörbiger as Martin Stammer
- Maria Koppenhöfer as Stammermutter
- Oskar Sima as Gansterer, Ortskommandant der Frontmiliz
- Eduard Köck as Rottbichler
- Heinrich Heilinger as Dr. Heiderer
- Hans Jamnig as Sergeant Kratzer
- Georg Vogelsang as Altknecht Aegyd
- Leopold Esterle as Hansbauer
- Ilse Exl as Hansbäuerin
- Leopold Kerscher as Ödbauer
- Viktor Staal as Anton Walcher
- Maria Stadler as Wettl, Magd
References
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Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1940. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
- Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
- Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0034385}}
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:1940s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Werner Klingler
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films shot in Austria
Category:Films shot at Schönbrunn Studios
Category:Films shot at Sievering Studios
Category:Nazi propaganda films
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