Released
Carl Peters
March 21 1941 (almost 84 years ago)Rating
50
Based on
3 reviews
- Director: Herbert Selpin
- Genres: History, Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 50 m
- Country: Germany
- Company: Bavaria-Filmkunst
National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
