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Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht

Apr 28, 1977

1h 30m

★ 8.0

Overview

The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner explains and comments on operations and decisions on the basis of situation maps, key scenes are depicted by actors. A main focus is thereby placed by Haffner onto the controversial mission of lieutenant-colonel Richard Hentsch who is said to have, during a war patrol to the various army high commands, contributed to the abortion of the operations significantly.

Genres

War

Documentary

Production Companies

Studio Hamburg Atelierbetriebsgesellschaft mbH

ZDF

Stern TV

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Cast

Generaloberst v. Moltke

Otto Kurth

Oberstleutnant Tappen

Friedrich Gröndahl

Oberstleutnant Hentsch

Alexander Hegarth

Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Hans Daniel

Reichskanzler v. Bethmann-Hollweg

Hans Paetsch

Generaloberst v. Kluck

Hans Häckermann

Generalmajor v. Kuhl

Dieter Wagner

Generaloberst v. Bülow

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Generalleutnant v. Lauenstein

Heinz Weiss

Generaloberst v. Hausen

Herbert Steinmetz

Divisionsgeneral Joffre

Siegfried Wischnewski

Brigadegeneral Berthelot

Hans Wyprächtiger

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