The Last Company

The Last Company
Film poster
Directed byCurtis Bernhardt
Written by
Produced byJoe May
Starring
CinematographyGünther Krampf
Edited byCarl Winston
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 14 March 1930 (1930-03-14)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Last Company (German: Die letzte Kompagnie) is a 1930 German war film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Conrad Veidt, Karin Evans and Erwin Kalser.[1] It was part of the popular cycle of Prussian films which portrayed patriotic scenes from Prussian history. It was produced by UFA in Berlin at their Babelsburg Studios, under the direction of Kurt Bernhardt, with the film's set design overseen by Andrej Andrejew. Location shots were taken around Havelland in Brandenburg.

Dubbed into English by UFA, it was released in the USA under the title Thirteen Men and a Girl by Talking Picture Epics Inc. in 1932, while Protex Pictures Corp. handled its German-language-only release there that same year.

It was remade in 1967 as A Handful of Heroes.

Synopsis

Following the Battle of Jena in 1806, the French armies commanded by Napoleon are about to overrun Prussia. A small detachment of Prussian troops take up position in a windmill and resolve to fight to the last man to hold them off for as long as possible. Meanwhile, the windmill owner's daughter chooses to stay and fight alongside them.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Bock & Bergfelder p. 315

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
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