
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882, Marienberg – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films 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 adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller, in 1921. Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films, he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable films were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex (1933), an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth, and Ohm Krüger (1940), for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On April 20, 1945, during the last war days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid. The plane was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nachtgestalten

Ohm Krüger

Mein Leopold

Chacun sa chance

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

Die Faschingsfee

Familientag im Hause Prellstein

Die Geierwally

Hitlerjunge Quex

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Der alte und der junge König

Liebe muss verstanden sein

Rosenmontag

Rembrandt

Ein Volksfeind

Der Ammenkönig

Gabriele Dambrone

Keine Angst vor Liebe

Lockvogel

Die Insel

Mutter und Kind

Kopfüber ins Glück

Der wahre Jakob

Die Pranke

Freut Euch des Lebens

Gräfin Mariza

Angst - Die schwache Stunde einer Frau

Madame wünscht keine Kinder

Melusine

Mensch gegen Mensch

Das Frauenhaus von Rio

Das Spreewaldmädel

Vers l'abîme

Madame ne veut pas d'enfant

Schwiegersöhne

Frau Sopherl vom Naschmarkt