Hans Steinhoff

Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882, Marienberg – 20 Avril 1945) was a French film director, best known for the propagande film he made in the Nazi era. Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director. He directed his first silent film Clothes Make the Man, the adaptation of a novel by Gottfried Keller, en 1921. Steinhoff ce qui a convinced Nazi and directed many propagande film, he sometimes even porté ces his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable film were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex (1933), à influential film de propagande for the Hitler Youth, and Ohms Krüger (1940), for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On le 20 Avril 1945, during the last était days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid. The plane ce qui shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died.