Carl Peters

Carl Peters — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 21, 1941
• Runtime
• 110 min
• Genres
• History, Drama
• Director
• Herbert Selpin

Carl Peters — Cast

Hans Albers Dr. Carl Peters Fritz Odemar Graf Pfeil Herbert Hübner Leo Kayser Ernst Fritz Fürbringer Wehr-Bandelin Erika von Thellmann Frau Kayser Hans Leibelt Prof. Karl Engel Reinhold Bernt Unteroffizier Hansen Jack Trevor British Consul