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Lightning Around Barbara

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Lightning Around Barbara
Directed byWerner Klingler
Written byHarald G. Petersson
Hanns Saßmann
Produced byRolf Randolf
StarringSybille Schmitz
Attila Hörbiger
Maria Koppenhöfer
CinematographySepp Allgeier
Edited byRoger von Norman
Music byHerbert Windt
Production
company
Rolf Randolf-Film
Distributed byMärkische-Panorama-Schneider
Release date
  • 17 October 1941 (1941-10-17)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Lightning Around Barbara (German: Wetterleuchten um Barbara) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Sybille Schmitz, Attila Hörbiger and Maria Koppenhöfer.[1] It is a heimatfilm with Nazi propaganda overtones, set in the Tyrol region of Austria in the year of the Anschluss.[2] It was shot at the Schönbrunn and Sievering Studios in Vienna and on location around Steinach am Brenner.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Heinrich Richter.

Synopsis

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In 1938, underground members of the Nazi movement in the Tyrol region face suppression from the Austrian Heimwehr. Martin Stammer and others flee across the border into Nazi Germany for shelter. In his absence his wife is forced to accuse him of murder in order to save her friend in a court trial. Her dilemma is resolved when her husband returns as part of the invading Germany forces.

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References

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  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.426
  2. ^ Richards p.310
  3. ^ Klaus p.288-89

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1940. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.
  • Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
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