Fritz Kirchhoff

{{short description|German director}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | name = Fritz Kirchhoff | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|12|10|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Hannover]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1953|6|25|1901|12|10|df=y}} | death_place = [[Hamburg]], [[West Germany]] | other_names = | occupation = {{ubl|[[Film producer]]|[[Film director]]|[[Screenwriter]]}} | years_active = 1937–1950 (director) }} '''Fritz Kirchhoff''' (1901–1953) was a German [[screenwriter]], [[film producer]] and [[film director|director]]. He was a noted director during the [[Nazi era]], directing film such as the anti-British propaganda thriller ''[[Attack on Baku]]'' (1942). His 1942 film ''[[5 June (film)|5 June]]'', showing the German defeat of France in 1940, was banned by [[Joseph Goebbels]] for unclear reasons, although it has been speculated it was to avoid offending the [[Vichy France|Vichy government]].{{sfn|Eltin|p=177}} After the [[Second World War]] Kirchhoff set up his own production company in [[Hamburg]].

==Selected filmography== ===Director=== * ''[[Tango Notturno]]'' (1937) * ''[[My Friend Barbara]]'' (1937) * ''[[When Women Keep Silent]]'' (1937) * ''[[Shadows Over St. Pauli]]'' (1938) * ''[[Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth?]]'' (1939) * ''[[Three Wonderful Days]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Eternal Spring]]'' (1940) * ''[[Attack on Baku]]'' (1942) * ''[[5 June (film)|5 June]]'' (1942) * ''[[When the Young Wine Blossoms (1943 film)|When the Young Wine Blossoms]]'' (1943) * ''[[A Wife for Three Days]]'' (1944) * ''[[One Day (1945 film)|One Day]]'' (1945) * ''[[Only One Night (1950 film)|Only One Night]]'' (1950)

===Producer=== * ''[[The Girl from the South Seas]]'' (1950) * ''[[Maya of the Seven Veils]]'' (1951) * ''[[The Thief of Bagdad (1952 film)|The Thief of Baghdad]]'' (1952) * ''[[I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1952 film)|I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg]]'' (1952) * ''[[The Colourful Dream]]'' (1952)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }} * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Eltin}} | editor-last = Eltin | editor-first = Richard A. | title = Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 2002 | location = Chicago | isbn = 978-0-226-22087-1 }} * {{cite book | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | location = Berkeley | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0456281}}

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