Film

Enemies

1940 · 1h 31m · Drama

IMDb

7.3

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.

Brigitte Horney

Anna

Willy Birgel

Keith

Iván Petrovich

Jan

Carl Wery

Martin

Reinhold Lütjohann

Wegner

Gerd Høst

Marianne Wegner

Arthur Fritz Eugens

Paul Wegner

Nicolas Koline

Andreas

Hedwig Wangel

Liska

Hannes Keppler

Hans Martin

Karl-Heinz Peters

Antek

Beppo Brem

Wegereit

José Held

Stach

Friedrich Ettel

Keller

Ludwig Schmid-Wildy

Lessing

Walter Holten

Böhme

• Viktor TourjanskyDirector · Screenplay
• Emil BurriScreenplay
• Arthur LuethyScreenplay
• Fritz Arno WagnerDirector of Photography
• Walter FredersdorfEditor

Release date

November 7, 1940

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama