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Chapter 1387 11386 Why spend huge sums of money to shoot a useless movie at such a difficult time?

"Yes, I am Anna Moffitt, the second casting assistant on the set of "National Glory: The Great Battle."" A female voice that was both friendly and unfamiliar came from the receiver: "Our resident staff (scout) at the Adlon Hotel I have an unforgettable memory of you. So I took the liberty to ask for the room number you booked, and that’s how I made this phone call.”

"Ah... it turns out it's you." The everlasting "French Rose" said in a long tone without any intention of letting go: "Although, it's presumptuous to say this. But considering the current situation, especially the Battle of Stalingrad, With the disastrous defeat and the indisputable Battle of Sicily, why did the Empire spend huge sums of money on a useless film at such a difficult time?”

In fact, after the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany ceased its offensive on the Eastern Front; the Western Front also became increasingly powerless. As domestic air supremacy gradually lost, Allied bomber formations began to appear frequently over German cities, and many major cities in the Third Reich were bombed into seas of flames. To boost morale. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to shoot an epic blockbuster known as the "last feast" of the German film industry during World War II: "Kolberg."

Therefore, this siege of Kolberg, which took place at the end of the Fourth Anti-French Alliance War and was praised by Germans for generations for holding on to the isolated city under the leadership of the famous general Gneisenau against the personal expedition of Napoleon, the first French emperor, was publicized. Minister Joseph Goebbels turned it over again. And based on the existing stage play "Kohlberg", it was adapted into the script of the movie "Kohlberg" as quickly as possible.

It is extremely ironic that the script adapted from the stage play "Kohlberg" that the Nazis spent huge sums of money to film was written by Paul Heizer, the Nobel Prize winner for literature and a German-Jewish writer.

The Nazis really spent a lot of money to make this movie. You must know that the price of color film was very expensive at that time. Many color photos of World War II seen in later generations were actually colored after the war. In order to make this film, Goebbels specifically contacted the German Agfa Film Company to rush to produce color film for this film, in order to vividly display "the glorious moment of the German nation."

Goebbels gave the green light to "Kohlberg" all the way. In order to create the most realistic war scenes, the German Propaganda Ministry helped the film production team find 18 extras to participate in the film, setting a world record for "the most extras" , each person can get a salary of 5 Reichsmarks per day, which is higher than the daily salary of a worker.

There were also 19th-century costumes for the extras, and the expense alone became astronomical. After all, it is a war movie, so military performances are of course indispensable. Among the 18 extras, there are 5 active German officers and soldiers, equivalent to the strength of 3 or 4 divisions.

You must know that all fronts of the German army with enemies on all sides are in danger at this time. The frontline commanders can't wait to split a division into several for use, and those officers and soldiers returning home for vacation are also ordered to shorten their vacations as much as possible so that they can return as soon as possible. front. The situation was so critical, but Goebbels ordered the soldiers on leave to report to the filming location and put on cumbersome 19th-century military uniforms to endure both mental and physical torture. This shows how much the Nazis took the film seriously.

Just like "National Glory: The Great War", the film's visuals should be as real as possible, so real guys were used to shoot the explosion scenes. Two extras were killed for this. It can be said that they were filming with their lives.

There are many winter scenes in the Siege of Kolberg. Unfortunately, the film was shot in the summer of 1944. There were no artificial snow scenes at that time, and the shooting could not be postponed to winter in order to meet the schedule. Although Allied air strikes had paralyzed large areas of the Third Reich's railway lines and domestic material supplies were becoming increasingly tight, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels actually ordered the railway system to mobilize more than a hundred carloads of salt and sprinkle it on the ground to act as snow. Trampled by men and horses.

In this way, "regardless of the cost" all the way until October 1944, this epic film of the Third Reich was finally completed. The entire movie cost as much as 10 million Reichsmarks, which was equivalent to more than 880 million US dollars in later generations. Even at that time, more than 3 Panther tanks or a Dora cannon could be purchased. At this time, the Soviet troops on the Eastern Front had already entered Poland, and the Allied forces on the Western Front were also marching into France. However, Nazi Germany spent a lot of scarce resources on making movies.

It's not hard to imagine. Many people's reaction to "Kohlberg" is as unreasonable as the eternal "French Rose" to "National Glory: The Great Battle". But in the eyes of senior Nazis, propaganda work was a top priority. Even if the movie costs a lot of money, as long as it can inspire people's hearts and morale, it's worth it.

等《科尔贝格》后期制作完成准备上映，时间已经悄然来到了1945年1月。宣传部长约瑟夫·戈培尔将首映日定在了1月30日。这一天是纳粹夺取政权12周年纪念日。

But at this time, the entire Berlin had been reduced to rubble by Allied air raids, and there was no movie theater anywhere. So Goebbels could only convert a Berlin subway station into a movie theater, and asked the head of state to hastily hold a premiere ceremony. The Nazi propaganda agency was eager to show this inspiring "inspirational film" all over Germany, so the ticket price was very cheap, only 0.7 Reichsmark, which was almost an invitation to watch the movie.

But at that time, most German cities, like Berlin, had been bombed into huge garbage dumps, and there was no complete cinema in the city. The German people hiding in air-raid shelters can only live one day at a time. How can they still be in the mood to risk their lives to watch a movie in the open air? In desperation, the Nazi propaganda agency turned to a very embarrassing method to promote propaganda, that is, printing propaganda posters. Institutions at all levels went all out to print a large number of "Kohlberg" movie posters in a short period of time and sent these posters to every corner of Germany to "motivate the people to continue to stick to the country."

In addition, the German army also dispatched its few remaining military aircraft to airdrop movie posters and film copies to the remaining German troops within the Allied encirclement, trying to "stimulate their enthusiasm for resistance." It is impossible to verify whether these film copies were screened in the enclosure. However, this situation only lasted for more than a month. In late March 1945, the film was forced to be taken offline. Because the city of Kolberg has been occupied by the Soviet army. In this way, this last film produced by Nazi Germany, after investing huge sums of money and occupying huge national resources, was withdrawn after being released for less than two months.

Nazi Germany also collapsed after more than a month.

As the saying goes, "If there is no coincidence, there is no book." This is also one of the most amazing aspects of "National Glory: Battle". To put it simply, judging from the historical process of World War II, even if there is no "Unlimited Funds" "National Glory: The Great Battle", there will still be "Kohlberg" with "no expense spared".

This is also the self-derived main plot of "The Great Battle" "a cross-plot fusion of time and space where the World War II-like plot fragments are similar and blended", with convincing historical coordinates and a completely reasonable plot script.

By the way, "National Glory: The Great Battle" is also a color movie.

I wish you all good luck in the Year of the Dragon.