British pilot: hey Dave am I seeing Prussian soldiers charging towards 1800s French soldiers? British pilot 2: wait wha- *spits tea* why are there Prussian soldiers fighting the French British pilot: hey headquarters we see 1800s Prussian and french soldiers fighting British headquarters: you must be joking British pilot: *shows headquarters a picture* British headquarters: uhm that’s weird I guess Germany is using the muskets and Prussian tactics? British pilot: uhh sir I think they saw us and they’re shooting our plane British headquarters: don’t worry they can’t do anythin- British pilot: *cannon fires from radio and goes silent* British headquarters: hello? John are you there? Oh god damnit! British commander: what’s going on? British headquarter lieutenant: *shows picture of Prussian and French soldiers and cannons” British commander: what the bloody fucking hell? British pilot: We’re going down there’s a huge hole in the plane and they keep shooting big black balls at us! British headquarters lieutenant: oh great the radio went off again British commander: oh for bloody god sakes we lost another one to them British headquarters lieutenant: wait what?
The film was Goebbels's idea. It was meant to instill patriotic faith in the German people just before Allied armies entered Germany. By the time of release, however, only cities firmly secured by the Wehrmacht screened it. It didn't get a general release across the country. It's an object lesson in fanaticism and propaganda.
@@CSBernard03 I’ve heard that the making of the film was so expensive that if they hadn’t made it they would have been able to hold off against the allies for a few more months
A very impressive big-budget movie. Thousands of uniformed extras, authentic weaponry, realistic sets, and all those uniforms that had to be made. Clearly, production costs were not spared in the making of this film. If this were to be made today it would all be CGI computer simulations.
A short time ago, a german military history magazine wrote about the historic events, and also the movie. The inhabitants of Kohlberg had not been more patriotic than other prussian persons, town mayor Nettelbeck seems to have been dubious in some things, and the first prussian commander was better than it was later told. The movie also had been not historicly correct, a lot of Propaganda was put into the movie. Also in this article was written, that mostly soldiers from garrison , and not so much from other units had been involved.
@@brittakriep2938 Of course the movie is distorting the historical facts. In fact, the defenders' situation was very difficult, morale fell, residents demanded the city's surrender, and Napoleon's army launched their final attack and the city would be captured within hours. The attack was interrupted by the information about the signing of the truce in Tylża. In historiography, von Lucadou was made a traitor and a coward, which is a completely untrue and harmful image. It happened thanks to a representative of the townspeople - Joachim Nettelbeck, who did not like the fact that the commandant did not consult him on his decisions, offered his hand to the French parliamentary in March 1807, and finally, in response to the remarks brought to him, he threatened to execute Nettelbeck.
I seem to remember this movie was Made and commissioned by nazi propaganda to inspire germans 'never to surrender'. The troops in the movie were wermacht soldiers taken away from the fight to make the movie. A great movie even if Made for a pointless and totally unnecessary reason
@The_Jaguar_ Knight Are you saying that literally, and if so, I'm respectfully asking you to tell me your source that Goebbels was Director of this movie. Thanks in advance.
Choose: "Use all your remaining resources for the war, and change the tide of the war?" -100,000,000 marks will be spent. -69% Chance of wining of the war. -Morale boost will be low for men. Or "Use a lot of resources for a movie which could be a waste of resources?" -100,000,000 marks will be spent. -69% Chance of loosing the war. -Strong morale boost for men.
Goebbels ordered no effort to be spared on this film with Hitler's aporoval though the Soviets were not that far away from the filming in 1944/1945. All of of the troops were currentlycserving in the German Army. Presumably many, if not most, of them perished or spent years in Soviet camps soon after the filming. The intention was to build up morale for the obvious invasion of East Prussia that was to come. This was a legendary film that has rarely been seen since 1945 due to its Nazi connections. The full version is available on You Tube in excellent condition with English subtitles. Thanks very much for posting it. I would never have found the original if you hadn't. Thank God my German great grandfather was forced to emigrate from Stuttgart in Wurtemmburg in the late 1880's as a young teen due to religious persecution of Catholics. His half German/half Irish sons fought for the United States in both World Wars.
This movie was made between 1943-1945 in Germany. 87,000 soldiers, 6,000 sailors and 4,000 horses were drawn from the front and used in the movie. All the extras in this were fighting the allies in World War Two. Crazy stuff.
A few months ago, the real events and the movie had been discribed in a german magazine about military history. Real soldiers hat been involved, but not in such large numbers, some people think. Perhaps you know ,Münchhausen' a fantasy adventure movie of 1942( 1943?), there is a large dinner scene , playing at russian court in 18th century. The servants, standing behind the actors, who acted as russian nobility, had been SS men, they had to guard the expensive old cutlery, plates ...etc., all things had been real antiques taken from german palaces for the movie. In another entertaining movie, the swedish singer Zara Leander, a tall woman, is shown with a group of dancing girls, but, there had been no female dancers in Mrs. Leanders size, so that SS men, disguised as women, appear.
@@jesuschrist-cl6lc : It was/is Propaganda. In a german military history magazine the siege of Kolberg was the toppic of an article. The story is in movie different to real events, the ,Kolberg myth' became a popular part of 19th century prussian pstriotism, but even then it was to gloified. The sense of the movie, where the caracters used words and speaking style of Hitler era, the Kolberg story was used, to give the german nation the wrong sign, defend and fight, so we can beat the enemy, at a point, where the war was lost.
@@jesuschrist-cl6lc it was made so the german people who watched the movie were encouraged to defend their homeland just as the Prussians in 1806-7. So yes, it's propaganda
ALL war movies have an agenda! I have never seen a single one that was 100% correct in a historical sense. The makers of the movies always wish to convey their specific view of things. If you want to see a fair assessment of the true historical background and course of the events, NEVER watch a war movie. Watch a very good documentary or read books by true hisotrians.
@@ruedigerschwarz lol yeah, that's the whole point of movies. They are not based in reality, it doesn't only apply to war movies. I have watched a series of film called "Ip Man" which talks about the life story of Bruce Lee's martial art teacher. Vast majority of the plot are fabricated. Unfortunately many people will believe all of that to be real events which happened in the past. Compared to other ww2 German films, I actually like daughter of the samurai more honestly. It has propaganda elements which stands from a unique point of view that you will never see in modern film, while at the same time it reflects the life of civilian at that time.
Holy god. This was a Nazi-era propaganda movie...in 1945. They were spending THIS much effort on a MOVIE in '45?????!!! They must have been out of their minds.
Interesting observation. These Prussian line infantry in the battle scenes are actually much closer to the Prussian army of 1813. Which was the year that saw Prussia turn against France once again in the Wars of Liberation aka Befreiungskriege. My guess would be that the historically incorrect uniforms for the years 1806/07, for cinematic and propagandistic effect, pointed towards a more modern and organized, and also more patriotic Prussian Army that would later add to the defeat of Napoleon and Prussia‘s liberation. Maybe implying also a hidden reference to the Wehrmacht of the 3rd Reich as the ultimate fighting force. Finally concerning the question of headwear that was in Prussian use in 1806/07, shakos were actually worn by elite light infantry units, the Fusiliers. Basic uniform colour tone not Prussian Blue, but Green, same as the Jäger. The latter wearing bicorns, not shakos. In case anyone should wonder.
Some admirable expertise in the field here. Cheers for that. Leaving aside the wrong 1806 headwear and costume problem, my point would rather be that these apparent mistakes by the Nazi fimmakers were probably not the result of ignorance or lack of research, but more of a deliberate nature in order to serve specific ideological purposes. Namely to create a link between the Prussian Volkskrieg 1813 against Napoleon, founded in the virtuos and self-sacrificing example of the City of Kolberg, and the call for total war in 1944 Nazi Germany. Which the film propagated in the first place. As a token of historical identification with regards to Prussian military history The 7 Years War or the Wars of Liberation did a good job in that respect. The Prussian Army of 1806, the plight of Jena, not so much. Representing the Prussians at Kolberg in terms of a reformed, well-disciplined and efficient fighting force, like some prime example of modern machinery, could also easily evoke images of the Wehrmacht for Nazi audiences in 1944/45. The historically correct but rather outdated military dress of 1806 as a relic and symbol of the dying agony of the Prussian Ancien Regime…yet again, not so much. Methinks.
When? In the Franco Prussian war of 1870, when France was defeated and humiliated by Prussia and the German states. Then France struck back in the First Word I of 1914, and in revenge for 1870 imposed the hard Treaty of Versailles on Germany. In revenge for that The Nazis emerged in Germany and started WWII, and so on and so on
Did anyone notice that, the General of Artillery saying to the Commander in chief. The emperor knows the limits of his power. If this film was not directed on Goebbels orders, you could almost imagine that was a slight on Hitler. :)
It is a movie set of course, and city itslef in 1940s looked already diffrent than 1807, but having comparison with nowdays (as born citizen) Kołobrzeg, I find out the old Kolberg... little claustrophobic 😅
@@kokunoskos6836 whatever you like. I wasn't born yet. My info says prerelease, a week later kolberg was burning. I am sure it was burning since I SPOKE to somebody who SAW it burning.
@@jarlRiess "In the late 19th century Kolberg became a popular spa town at the Baltic Sea. In 1945, Polish and Soviet troops captured the town, while the remaining German population which had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled *in accordance to the Potsdam Agreement.* Kołobrzeg, now part of post-war Poland and devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt, but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby city of Koszalin."
A hugely impressive movie and one that must have been equally expensive. Which is also why I'd initially wondered why they hadn't gotten real actors to play any of the major characters. We're seeing over-acting in this movie that Jim Carrie might turn his nose up at. Ah, but then I realized that the bulk of these actors weren't coming from a film background but rather theatre and music hall. Gross over-emphasis in your gesticulations and ridiculously over the top histrionics is NECESSARY on the stage just so the audience in the back rows can keep up. Still, it does make for a pretty dated experience in movies.
I remember this film this movie it was done by the German Nazi propaganda. Hitler one of the movie that would encourage the German people to keep fighting onward against the allies so they made this movie as a response they had to take German troops from certain areas and I wanted to make it which weekend some of the front lines, give me the advantage to the Russians to move forward in some areas throughout the attempt that Hitler tried to make nothing can be said that it is not well done. Surely it was well done that’s for sure. Lotta great battle scenes. I didn’t know this film still existed. I thought this was destroyed long ago. I’m quite surprised.
But, most theatres had been destroyed which limited the distribution. A copy of it was parachuted into a German Army unit's location in France but the unit was later captured anyway. Another creepy fact (I've been an extra in several movies and TV shows) is the guy with the blue coat and no hat at the front of the marching soldiers in the opening. Watch closely - he keeps changing position as the scene progresses. In one cut, he's by himself singing so hard it hurts to watch him. Oh, and they managed to kill an extra in the making the movie which included aerial shots from a balloon.
Excellent! From what little I have read, this movie was the brainchild of Reichminister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels. A lavish budget, the power to commandeer several Wehrmacht infantry divisions (so roughly 16,000 if volksgrenadier divisions, maybe 24,000 if regular infantry divisions if it was kept to say several, like 2 divisions) plus all the bells and whistles to make this production happen. Apparently designed to boost the morale of the German people as the Russians closed in from the east and the Western allies from the west. I never could find any material to see if anyone really went to see the movie. If a flop, I could see Goebbels suppressing the data so he wouldn't look like an idiot.
I actually learned of the movie in a documentary on Netflix (maybe) called "Berlin." One woman notes that she and here mother went to the movies to see this show - I've been obsessed with the production and insane reason for the movie ever since. The opening song - the theme song? - is a candidate for a "brain worm" at least for a few days...
When you think that Hitler withdraw 1000's upon 1000's of Soldiers from the Eastern and Western Front to make this Movie, you really will understand how deluded that guy was. The guy who opened the flood-gates didn't survive after the Red Army arrived.
What a mish-mash of continuity. No rhyme or reason to some of the scenes. Horse calvary charging soldiers throwing ladders into rivers? It's all big effects and no story.
Кажется фильм Кольберг был выпущен при нацистах в 1944 г. для моральной поддержки немецких войск, которые терпели поражения от русских. Не помогло, фашисты были разбиты в пух и прах русскими.
The effort put into that, while many Germans soldiers were starved of resources on the front. I wonder how many of the extras, ended up dead, or in Soviet POW camps. The lucky ones would have escaped to the West.
All the characters are screaming around all the time. Just like a Fuhrer and Goebbels did :-) And this funny allusion: "Bravo. Schill is lettining them advance" :-) I wonder what "advance" he was referring to... :-)
Indeed, only Poles (especially these sitting at home, in front of their computers) are so "brave" they can talk calmly even under bombardment, in the heat of the fight! 🤭😁
Komunisté v SSSR dělali to samé. Wehrmacht se spojenci stále postupoval do nitra Svazu - a tam se točily národně-povzbudivé a propagandistické filmy (např. Как закалялась сталь a další). Takže nechápu, čemu se posmíváš.
@@olegevstigneev5367 A co má být, že Ašchabád byl daleko od fronty?! Princip je úplně stejný, jako v Třetí říši. Zbytečně se posmíváš Němcům, sami jste byli stejní. Film je zkrátka skvělý propagandistický nástroj - a není divu, že jej využívaly všechny režimy. V těžkých časech zejména!
Just another German Propaganda fairy tale. - Like the German name - Kolberg - which means nothing. German Yiddisher Ashkenazic name change choice + various - Colburg/ Kohlburg, etc.. - 700s AD - Polish name, Kolobrzeg - On the coast. [a fort].
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Can i please have a link to an English subtitled version of this movie. It looks amazing.
British reconnaissance pilots be like: dude did we just time travelled?
Lol I can imagine seeing that
British pilot: hey Dave am I seeing Prussian soldiers charging towards 1800s French soldiers?
British pilot 2: wait wha- *spits tea* why are there Prussian soldiers fighting the French
British pilot: hey headquarters we see 1800s Prussian and french soldiers fighting
British headquarters: you must be joking
British pilot: *shows headquarters a picture*
British headquarters: uhm that’s weird I guess Germany is using the muskets and Prussian tactics?
British pilot: uhh sir I think they saw us and they’re shooting our plane
British headquarters: don’t worry they can’t do anythin-
British pilot: *cannon fires from radio and goes silent*
British headquarters: hello? John are you there? Oh god damnit!
British commander: what’s going on?
British headquarter lieutenant: *shows picture of Prussian and French soldiers and cannons”
British commander: what the bloody fucking hell?
British pilot: We’re going down there’s a huge hole in the plane and they keep shooting big black balls at us!
British headquarters lieutenant: oh great the radio went off again
British commander: oh for bloody god sakes we lost another one to them
British headquarters lieutenant: wait what?
Anyone else find it wierd or haunting that this movie was made during WWII when there was active combat and released in 1945
Not really
@@flawlessbinary7449 its true , they did create this since 1943
The film was Goebbels's idea. It was meant to instill patriotic faith in the German people just before Allied armies entered Germany. By the time of release, however, only cities firmly secured by the Wehrmacht screened it. It didn't get a general release across the country. It's an object lesson in fanaticism and propaganda.
@@CSBernard03 I’ve heard that the making of the film was so expensive that if they hadn’t made it they would have been able to hold off against the allies for a few more months
@@flawlessbinary7449 Yes really
A very impressive big-budget movie. Thousands of uniformed extras, authentic weaponry, realistic sets, and all those uniforms that had to be made. Clearly, production costs were not spared in the making of this film. If this were to be made today it would all be CGI computer simulations.
5000 real soldiers during wwII
A short time ago, a german military history magazine wrote about the historic events, and also the movie. The inhabitants of Kohlberg had not been more patriotic than other prussian persons, town mayor Nettelbeck seems to have been dubious in some things, and the first prussian commander was better than it was later told. The movie also had been not historicly correct, a lot of Propaganda was put into the movie. Also in this article was written, that mostly soldiers from garrison , and not so much from other units had been involved.
@@brittakriep2938
Of course the movie is distorting the historical facts. In fact, the defenders' situation was very difficult, morale fell, residents demanded the city's surrender, and Napoleon's army launched their final attack and the city would be captured within hours. The attack was interrupted by the information about the signing of the truce in Tylża.
In historiography, von Lucadou was made a traitor and a coward, which is a completely untrue and harmful image. It happened thanks to a representative of the townspeople - Joachim Nettelbeck, who did not like the fact that the commandant did not consult him on his decisions, offered his hand to the French parliamentary in March 1807, and finally, in response to the remarks brought to him, he threatened to execute Nettelbeck.
Computerisation AI could likely re-master this and make it exceptional.
o you need to watch waterloo then
This is amazing camera work for 1807, especially the aerial shots!
your joking?
@@RaftyFutbol No, I'm dead serious.
Its from 1945
@@travis07fullook who finally figured it out 😐😐😐
😂😂
came here after watching simple history’s new vid xd
Me too!
He he aren't we all😁 I did.
Hahahaha 👍👍
Same here.
Same
I seem to remember this movie was Made and commissioned by nazi propaganda to inspire germans 'never to surrender'. The troops in the movie were wermacht soldiers taken away from the fight to make the movie. A great movie even if Made for a pointless and totally unnecessary reason
Yep supposedly an actor died when one of the movie bombs went off.
Better they play kill than real kill. The war was lost, why not have fun and save their lives.
@The_Jaguar_ Knight Are you saying that literally, and if so, I'm respectfully asking you to tell me your source that Goebbels was Director of this movie. Thanks in advance.
Choose:
"Use all your remaining resources for the war, and change the tide of the war?"
-100,000,000 marks will be spent.
-69% Chance of wining of the war.
-Morale boost will be low for men.
Or
"Use a lot of resources for a movie which could be a waste of resources?"
-100,000,000 marks will be spent.
-69% Chance of loosing the war.
-Strong morale boost for men.
Keep in mind this is 1945, the end was inevitable at this point
@@jamesgreen1166 ohh 1945. I thought 1943 or 1944
@@kenzoo5416 the end was nigh at 1943 as well so lol
With this decision makers is easy to know why germany lost the war.
Akin to telling Volkssturm conscripts they could accomplish what Wehrmacht and Waffen SS could not.
Goebbels ordered no effort to be spared on this film with Hitler's aporoval though the Soviets were not that far away from the filming in 1944/1945. All of of the troops were currentlycserving in the German Army. Presumably many, if not most, of them perished or spent years in Soviet camps soon after the filming. The intention was to build up morale for the obvious invasion of East Prussia that was to come. This was a legendary film that has rarely been seen since 1945 due to its Nazi connections. The full version is available on You Tube in excellent condition with English subtitles. Thanks very much for posting it. I would never have found the original if you hadn't.
Thank God my German great grandfather was forced to emigrate from Stuttgart in Wurtemmburg in the late 1880's as a young teen due to religious persecution of Catholics. His half German/half Irish sons fought for the United States in both World Wars.
Ein großartiger Film mit phantastischen Schauspieleren. Das Volk steht auf, der Sturm bricht los.
Is it bad when I say I think the Battle scenes here are better then most modern day Napoleonic war battle scenes
I love how there is no CGI.
This movie was made between 1943-1945 in Germany. 87,000 soldiers, 6,000 sailors and 4,000 horses were drawn from the front and used in the movie. All the extras in this were fighting the allies in World War Two. Crazy stuff.
Watch Waterloo that will blow your mind 15000 extras from the Soviet army
Well war and peace did a pretty good job producing the scene with the messenger riding hard in-between two skirmish lines along a road
We all know we came from Simple History's channel
Right lmao
I was looking for cool movies about the Napoleon age
Yes lol
Yes
Same
I love old style movies
Casablanca is also an old movie..
5:06
A nod to what's happening to German cities at the time.
These actors are real soldiers like a hundred thousand of them, wow!
A few months ago, the real events and the movie had been discribed in a german magazine about military history. Real soldiers hat been involved, but not in such large numbers, some people think.
Perhaps you know ,Münchhausen' a fantasy adventure movie of 1942( 1943?), there is a large dinner scene , playing at russian court in 18th century. The servants, standing behind the actors, who acted as russian nobility, had been SS men, they had to guard the expensive old cutlery, plates ...etc., all things had been real antiques taken from german palaces for the movie.
In another entertaining movie, the swedish singer Zara Leander, a tall woman, is shown with a group of dancing girls, but, there had been no female dancers in Mrs. Leanders size, so that SS men, disguised as women, appear.
So simple history brought me here but gotta say it's an amazing movie like all this is real is so much better than Napoleonic movie made this days
Watchthe film waterloo
This is actually, literally, nazi propaganda....
@@mcpanzer4637 No, it's made by the nazis not nazi propaganda.
@@jesuschrist-cl6lc : It was/is Propaganda. In a german military history magazine the siege of Kolberg was the toppic of an article. The story is in movie different to real events, the ,Kolberg myth' became a popular part of 19th century prussian pstriotism, but even then it was to gloified. The sense of the movie, where the caracters used words and speaking style of Hitler era, the Kolberg story was used, to give the german nation the wrong sign, defend and fight, so we can beat the enemy, at a point, where the war was lost.
@@jesuschrist-cl6lc it was made so the german people who watched the movie were encouraged to defend their homeland just as the Prussians in 1806-7.
So yes, it's propaganda
5:14: Me: We have to silence those cannons before they pulverize the town!
*Cannon ball lands 20 ft from soldier
Soldier: *dies
Maybe you should Google cannonball.
Fun fact: Kölberg was utterly destroyed in the real battle
yes, during WW II in 1945, Kołobrzeg was 95% destroyed
I had never excepted to see this film. I thought it was lost forever
This is when the nazis invented time travel to make an propaganda film in the middle of the war
R- napoleonic- roblox pfp
This film reminds me of old films made in the soviet union for some reason
ALL war movies have an agenda! I have never seen a single one that was 100% correct in a historical sense. The makers of the movies always wish to convey their specific view of things. If you want to see a fair assessment of the true historical background and course of the events, NEVER watch a war movie. Watch a very good documentary or read books by true hisotrians.
@@ruedigerschwarz lol yeah, that's the whole point of movies. They are not based in reality, it doesn't only apply to war movies. I have watched a series of film called "Ip Man" which talks about the life story of Bruce Lee's martial art teacher. Vast majority of the plot are fabricated. Unfortunately many people will believe all of that to be real events which happened in the past. Compared to other ww2 German films, I actually like daughter of the samurai more honestly. It has propaganda elements which stands from a unique point of view that you will never see in modern film, while at the same time it reflects the life of civilian at that time.
1:52 why did i expect a narrator to start talking
Say it with me, Screw green screen
I live in Kołobrzeg, I watched this film, it is a pity that it was shot in the III Reich and is classified as a propaganda film.
Zakazane historie - You Tube
Ein toller Film.
Its a nazi movie bro
@@maxencebaudoin7889 Not a bad film, just made under a totalitarian regime in 1945, the year of defeat. But it has historical value.
Another guy who came from Simple History. :P Gotta say I find it amazing this movie is in colour!
0:01 Music name? Or the link?
it should be in movies credits
Very well done.👍
Fritz, you can eizer put on a French uniform, or fight on zee Russian front. Choose visely…
"But Hanz! Vee are on zee Ruzzian front!"
How come that prussians are running with Shako`s and french still tricornes?
Because the Germans didn't have enough hats🤣
In whole movie French are shown as outdated, primitive brutes and idiots.
Holy god. This was a Nazi-era propaganda movie...in 1945. They were spending THIS much effort on a MOVIE in '45?????!!!
They must have been out of their minds.
So this was what Simple History was referring to in one of his videos
Camera quality is impressive for 1807.
This was a German film made in 1945.
🤣🤣🤣
@@fireinthehole1986 A german nazi film...
@@julioalbertoherrera1339 Yes, agreed, it was directed by Josef Goebbels himself…
Fun fact in 1941 to 1943 the soviets are doing this to defeng their count by building bunkers and trenches
They don't make movies like this anymore
Na confusão, não consigo diferenciar a Prússia da França!
France had shakos earlier than Prussia. This is mistake on this film.
Interesting observation. These Prussian line infantry in the battle scenes are actually much closer to the Prussian army of 1813. Which was the year that saw Prussia turn against France once again in the Wars of Liberation aka Befreiungskriege. My guess would be that the historically incorrect uniforms for the years 1806/07, for cinematic and propagandistic effect, pointed towards a more modern and organized, and also more patriotic Prussian Army that would later add to the defeat of Napoleon and Prussia‘s liberation. Maybe implying also a hidden reference to the Wehrmacht of the 3rd Reich as the ultimate fighting force. Finally concerning the question of headwear that was in Prussian use in 1806/07, shakos were actually worn by elite light infantry units, the Fusiliers. Basic uniform colour tone not Prussian Blue, but Green, same as the Jäger. The latter wearing bicorns, not shakos. In case anyone should wonder.
@@ruskin73 Prussian Fusilliers 1806-07 have diffrent headwears. Sometimes shakos, sometimes great pipe hats.
Some admirable expertise in the field here. Cheers for that. Leaving aside the wrong 1806 headwear and costume problem, my point would rather be that these apparent mistakes by the Nazi fimmakers were probably not the result of ignorance or lack of research, but more of a deliberate nature in order to serve specific ideological purposes. Namely to create a link between the Prussian Volkskrieg 1813 against Napoleon, founded in the virtuos and self-sacrificing example of the City of Kolberg, and the call for total war in 1944 Nazi Germany. Which the film propagated in the first place. As a token of historical identification with regards to Prussian military history The 7 Years War or the Wars of Liberation did a good job in that respect. The Prussian Army of 1806, the plight of Jena, not so much. Representing the Prussians at Kolberg in terms of a reformed, well-disciplined and efficient fighting force, like some prime example of modern machinery, could also easily evoke images of the Wehrmacht for Nazi audiences in 1944/45. The historically correct but rather outdated military dress of 1806 as a relic and symbol of the dying agony of the Prussian Ancien Regime…yet again, not so much. Methinks.
Well This Movie Is Million Times better than Ridley scott's Napoleon.
they had better camera quality then us in 2nd world war. HOW?
its a movie...
@@captainsandwhich7469 wrong. u see how detailled this is? this is original! government doesnt want u to know
@@diemausdietastatur8738 As far as i know 2024 camera are far more better than the ones in WW2
Great film autentic
On m'a souvent expliqué que les charges d'infanterie et de cavalerie ne se faisaient jamais en courant ou au galop . Mais cette vidéo est du cinéma.
Napoleon defeated the Prussians and the Germans amazingly...and very fast
@mar n when.
When? In the Franco Prussian war of 1870, when France was defeated and humiliated by Prussia and the German states. Then France struck back in the First Word I of 1914, and in revenge for 1870 imposed the hard Treaty of Versailles on Germany. In revenge for that The Nazis emerged in Germany and started WWII, and so on and so on
@mar n yeah but Germany aka Prussia was supported by almost every major nation in Europe so there is literally no way they could be defeated.
@mar n Saxons won with Sweden, Prussia, Russia and Austria. They did not win alone. The second is correct.
@@trollege9618
Hum, it's worse than that.
The Saxons were allied with the French and changed side in the middle of the battle.
I believed in 1945 Germans had many things to do besides movies.
Couple of those guys got blown out of a boat when that charge exploded directly under them.
Did anyone notice that, the General of Artillery saying to the Commander in chief. The emperor knows the limits of his power. If this film was not directed on Goebbels orders, you could almost imagine that was a slight on Hitler. :)
simple history brought me here
It is a movie set of course, and city itslef in 1940s looked already diffrent than 1807, but having comparison with nowdays (as born citizen) Kołobrzeg, I find out the old Kolberg... little claustrophobic 😅
This movie was made in 1945
released two weeks before the destruction of the city, for real
Nope... it was made since 1943... 1945 was a year of its release.
@@kokunoskos6836 it is never released. just prerelease. at the time it would be released, Kolberg was burning
@@mc-lb9dk It was released... few cinemas in working condition which were still under german control played it in 1945.
@@kokunoskos6836 whatever you like. I wasn't born yet. My info says prerelease, a week later kolberg was burning. I am sure it was burning since I SPOKE to somebody who SAW it burning.
They are using breach loading rifles....just at the 1 minute mark.
Very 1870!
What ocean is near Kolberg?
The Baltic Sea. Not an ocean, of course.
@@jarlRiess
thanks. I saw the sea in the movie briefly and I must be looking at the wrong Kolberg in Germany on the map.
@@bpaulb880 Because that Kolberg has been given by Stalin to Poles after the end of the WW II. Since then bear Polish name Kołobrzeg. 😉
@@jarlRiess "In the late 19th century Kolberg became a popular spa town at the Baltic Sea. In 1945, Polish and Soviet troops captured the town, while the remaining German population which had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled *in accordance to the Potsdam Agreement.* Kołobrzeg, now part of post-war Poland and devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt, but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby city of Koszalin."
*Simple History?*
Yep
yes
NOPE
A hugely impressive movie and one that must have been equally expensive. Which is also why I'd initially wondered why they hadn't gotten real actors to play any of the major characters. We're seeing over-acting in this movie that Jim Carrie might turn his nose up at. Ah, but then I realized that the bulk of these actors weren't coming from a film background but rather theatre and music hall. Gross over-emphasis in your gesticulations and ridiculously over the top histrionics is NECESSARY on the stage just so the audience in the back rows can keep up.
Still, it does make for a pretty dated experience in movies.
Heinrich George ! 👍👍👍
Кстати. Съёмки велись в Гитлеровской Германии. Для съёмок , в массовке, даже снимали войска с фронта
I remember this film this movie it was done by the German Nazi propaganda. Hitler one of the movie that would encourage the German people to keep fighting onward against the allies so they made this movie as a response they had to take German troops from certain areas and I wanted to make it which weekend some of the front lines, give me the advantage to the Russians to move forward in some areas throughout the attempt that Hitler tried to make nothing can be said that it is not well done. Surely it was well done that’s for sure. Lotta great battle scenes. I didn’t know this film still existed. I thought this was destroyed long ago. I’m quite surprised.
But, most theatres had been destroyed which limited the distribution. A copy of it was parachuted into a German Army unit's location in France but the unit was later captured anyway. Another creepy fact (I've been an extra in several movies and TV shows) is the guy with the blue coat and no hat at the front of the marching soldiers in the opening. Watch closely - he keeps changing position as the scene progresses. In one cut, he's by himself singing so hard it hurts to watch him. Oh, and they managed to kill an extra in the making the movie which included aerial shots from a balloon.
Excellent! From what little I have read, this movie was the brainchild of Reichminister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels. A lavish budget, the power to commandeer several Wehrmacht infantry divisions (so roughly 16,000 if volksgrenadier divisions, maybe 24,000 if regular infantry divisions if it was kept to say several, like 2 divisions) plus all the bells and whistles to make this production happen. Apparently designed to boost the morale of the German people as the Russians closed in from the east and the Western allies from the west. I never could find any material to see if anyone really went to see the movie. If a flop, I could see Goebbels suppressing the data so he wouldn't look like an idiot.
I actually learned of the movie in a documentary on Netflix (maybe) called "Berlin." One woman notes that she and here mother went to the movies to see this show - I've been obsessed with the production and insane reason for the movie ever since. The opening song - the theme song? - is a candidate for a "brain worm" at least for a few days...
When you think that Hitler withdraw 1000's upon 1000's of Soldiers from the Eastern and Western Front to make this Movie, you really will understand how deluded that guy was.
The guy who opened the flood-gates didn't survive after the Red Army arrived.
glad i am not one of those soldiers laying under the muzzle of the guns.
At the 7.00 point -
Is that guy in blackface?
Diese Helden brauchen wir heute
The hell with Ridley Scott
Was this the movie made at the end of World War 2 by the German's that took many soldiers out of the front line to make this movie?
Ja. Heißt „Kolberg“ und ist im Januar 45 in den kinós gekommen. Gibt es hin und wieder noch auf DVD👍👍👍
Yes it is. This is the real stuff.
Spanish please...
Can't see Napoleon
Napoleon was busy kicking Russian ass at Friedland
Many of these actors died in real battle during WW2
Bald n bankrupts vlogs are getting a little too dangerous in my opinion
Where's Prussia's Russian allies??
The Russian allies are now enemies and they're coming to Kolberg to destroy it
Interesting to compare this with Olivier's "Henry V", filmed almost at the same time.
Who else is here from Simple History?
The director of this movie, Veit Harlan, had previously made the ultra-anti-Semitic "Jud Süß".
What a mish-mash of continuity. No rhyme or reason to some of the scenes. Horse calvary charging soldiers throwing ladders into rivers? It's all big effects and no story.
It seems they've cut bits out
Well well, in 1945 the Germans could afford making this kind of movies...
This is from goebbels movie...? Incredible. At time been a y was desperately short of manpower as the red army approached East Prussia, they made this
I got a kick out of the officer looking through a bent and drooping telescope. Overall not too bad though. Peace. Out.
Кажется фильм Кольберг был выпущен при нацистах в 1944 г. для моральной поддержки немецких войск, которые терпели поражения от русских. Не помогло, фашисты были разбиты в пух и прах русскими.
The effort put into that, while many Germans soldiers were starved of resources on the front. I wonder how many of the extras, ended up dead, or in Soviet POW camps. The lucky ones would have escaped to the West.
What if in an alternate reality this happened for the 1st time
The 2nd wouldnt go so well
One of the last Nazi era big movies .
Пруссаки в киверах ,а французы в шляпах. В реальности было наоборот. Целый корпус сняли для сьемок фильма с фронта.
Спасибо за комментарий, информацию.
More info on the film th-cam.com/video/mkqgTAe2_O4/w-d-xo.html
Спасибо за информацию.
Might be a Nazi film (just going to ignore that for now) but still better than Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.
¡Lang lebe der könig! ¡Lang lebe die königin Louise!
All the characters are screaming around all the time. Just like a Fuhrer and Goebbels did :-) And this funny allusion: "Bravo. Schill is lettining them advance" :-) I wonder what "advance" he was referring to... :-)
Indeed, only Poles (especially these sitting at home, in front of their computers) are so "brave" they can talk calmly even under bombardment, in the heat of the fight! 🤭😁
@@jarlRiess There's big difference between being afraid and screaming like Fuhrer :-)
Oh look another stupid cgi movie….. wait you mean there all real🤯
Fürs peuße ein !
This is third reich propaganda
What actually happened is prussian is lost during that war the french cannon destroy alot of their building
@@ry1786 yes i understand that but the movie is about Prussians so chill out
@@ry1786 tHis iS tHiRd REicH prOpaGanDa Who cares it’s still a good movie and movies made by Hollywood aren’t propaganda?
Was?
Nasi propaganda movie?
Yes
Nicht mal der Film hat 3-Reich geholfen! Jetzt leckt ihr Amerikanischer Stiefel seid 77 Jahren!
Nicht so lange,jetzt kommt die Wende!
@@waldemarlange2754 Bei wem wird jetzt geleckt? Nicht's gegen dich persönlich,dich meine ich nicht!
@@tatjanamelcher8701 Russ wird niemals Slaw ! Deutsch ist Teutsch,aso Teutone-Öksümorron,,! Noch vor 300Jahren Sprache Westeuropa war altrussisch,
Goebbels film 🎥 masterpiece 😊
Советская армия приближается к Берлину ,а нацисты кино снимают.
Yes.
Охренеть можно!
Komunisté v SSSR dělali to samé. Wehrmacht se spojenci stále postupoval do nitra Svazu - a tam se točily národně-povzbudivé a propagandistické filmy (např. Как закалялась сталь a další).
Takže nechápu, čemu se posmíváš.
@@jarlRiess Прежде чем писать ерунду ,надо бы знать хоть что то.Найди Ашхабад и посмотри как далеко он от фронта.Знаток нашелся из третьего рейха.
@@olegevstigneev5367 A co má být, že Ašchabád byl daleko od fronty?! Princip je úplně stejný, jako v Třetí říši. Zbytečně se posmíváš Němcům, sami jste byli stejní.
Film je zkrátka skvělý propagandistický nástroj - a není divu, že jej využívaly všechny režimy. V těžkých časech zejména!
A propaganda film.
Movie from third Reich 😉
Nazi Germany 🇩🇪🏴☠️😡
Артиллерия так не ставилась колесо к колесу. Им же заряжать в дуло поиходилось.
How else do you load a muzzle-loading cannon?
Das ist Katzendrek, Mein Herren...
Just another German Propaganda fairy tale.
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Like the German name - Kolberg - which means nothing. German Yiddisher Ashkenazic name change choice + various - Colburg/ Kohlburg, etc..
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700s AD - Polish name, Kolobrzeg - On the coast. [a fort].
I love the first scene with that Napoleonic Army marching through all of those truck tire marks in the mud. Typical Nazi Incompetence.
0:01 Music name? Or the link?