Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz (1999) [N/A]
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Release Date:
January 1, 1999
Original Title:
Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz
Genres:
Animation | Documentary
Production Companies:
ARTE
De Campo Film Köln
TrickStudio Lutterbeck
WDR
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 34
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney-Quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is re-traced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards. – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi” a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful Multiplane-technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, life-action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich.