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GERMANY
Though regimented under Nazi control the Ufa studios are not to be used for constructive propaganda in the manner of the Soviets, but are to produce pleasant narcotics intended, no doubt, to ease the pain of other measures of reform. The new theatrical programme, which sets out to " give the public what they want — namely a means of forgetting care and finding amusement," is headed by Baron Meuhaus, a musical comedy of the time of Maria Theresa, directed by Gustav Ucicky, who will also make Barcarole, with Offenbach's music. Dr. Arthur Robison, of Warning Shadows fame, is to make The Secret of Woronzeff, a. society film of the Riviera and Paris, featuring Brigette Helm.
From a scenario by Thea von Harbou, Gerhard Lamprect is to direct Turandot, Princess of China, a lavish Oriental spectacle designed by Herlth and Rohrig, remembered for their work on Faust and Tartuffe; Wagner will photograph. A Strauss operetta, The Gipsy Baron, will be made by Karl Hartl. Holidays from Myself is a comedy of life in a Silesian sanatorium where every patient has to lay aside his "everyday I," adapted from a romance by the poet Paul Keller by Olaf Fjord.
But however far Ufa may have departed from its traditions in dramatic production, the new programme of the educational department promises a continuance of Neubabelsberg's interest in scientific achievement and fine workmanship. In the Tracks of the Hansiatic League is a survey of the Gothic architecture of the Hansiatic builders and a description of the League's influence on German civilization. Dr. Ulrich K. T. Schulz is directing a new series of films dealing with the life of meadow and forest. Two biological films, Voices in the Reeds and Fowl for the Hunter, show with the use of telephoto lenses the habits of timid wild game, and new secrets of the plant world are revealed in The Speech of Plants and Orchids. Sixlegged Builders is announced (with evident pride) as showing the "state-like arrangements and organization of different kinds of German ants."
Dr. Martin Rikli has directed a number of films such as The Infinite Cosmos, dealing with astronomy, and Whirlpools in Water. These will be followed by Motor Highways; Gorch Fock, illustrating the training of naval cadets ; and F.P.I. Becomes a Reality, a German Air-hansa film. Wilhelm Prager will make a number of films of German landscape and German life. Various language versions are being made of all these films.
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