{{Short description|1941 Nazi propaganda film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Above All Else in the World | image =Above All Else in the World.jpg | caption = | director = Karl Ritter | producer = Karl Ritter | writer = {{ubl|Felix Lützkendorf|Karl Ritter}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Paul Hartmann|Hannes Stelzer|Fritz Kampers|Carl Raddatz}} | music = Herbert Windt | cinematography = Werner Krien | editing = Gottfried Ritter | studio = UFA | distributor = UFA | released = {{film date|1941|3|21|df=y}} | runtime = 85 minutes | country = Nazi Germany | language = German | budget = | gross =
}} '''''Above All Else in the World''''' ({{langx|de|link=no|'''Über alles in der Welt'''}}) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer and Fritz Kampers.<ref>Kreimeier p. 312</ref> The title refers to the second line of the German national anthem. It was made as a propaganda film designed to promote Nazi Germany's war aims in the Second World War.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
==Synopsis== Following the outbreak of war, Germans abroad face persecution from the British and French authorities.
==Cast== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * Paul Hartmann as Otl. Steinhart * Hannes Stelzer as Hans Wiegand * Fritz Kampers as Fritz Möbius * Carl Raddatz as Carl Wiegand * Oskar Sima as Leo Samek * Maria Bard as Madeleine LaRoche * Berta Drews as Anna Möbius * Carsta Löck as Erika Möbius * Marina von Ditmar as Brigitte * Joachim Brennecke as Willy Möbius * Karl John as Olt. Hassencamp * Josef Dahmen as Uffz. Weber * Georg Thomalla as Uffz. Krause * Herbert A.E. Böhme as Kapitän Hansen * Wilhelm König as Funker Boysen * Karl Haubenreißer as Sally Nürnberg * Andrews Engelmann as Capt. John Stanley * Hans Baumann as Robert Brown * Ernst Sattler as Rainthaler * Lutz Götz as Hofer * Albert Janscheck as Reindl * Marianne Straub as Walburga * Peter Elsholtz as Dr. v. Krisis * Kunibert Gensichen as Reg.-Ass. Glockenburg * Eva Tinschmann as Oberschwester Isolde * Oscar Sabo as Friedrich Wilhelm Hoppe * Gerhard Dammann as Siemens-Werkmeister * Beppo Brem as Putzenlechner * Hermann Gunther as Elsässischer Bürgermeister * Günther Polensen as Flieger-Leutnant Nacke * Willi Rose * Fanny Cotta * Heinz Welzel * Franz Lichtenauer * Paul Schwed * Herbert Scholz * Wolfgang Molitor {{div col end}}
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | location = Berkeley | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0140723}}
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Category:1941 films Category:1940s war drama films Category:German war drama films Category:Films of Nazi Germany Category:1941 German-language films Category:Films directed by Karl Ritter Category:Nazi World War II propaganda films Category:UFA GmbH films Category:German black-and-white films Category:1941 drama films Category:1941 German films Category:Films scored by Herbert Windt Category:German-language war drama films Category:Nazi-era films restricted in Germany
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