logos.jpg“History is not about the facts. It is about the context and who is telling the story.” —Prof. Milton Fine. 

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."   –– George Orwell in his novel "1984." 

"Whoever doubts the exclusive guilt of Germany for the Second World War destroys the foundation of post–war politics." ––  Prof. Theodor Eschenberg, Rector, the University of Tübingen.

"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how."         –  Friedrich Nietzsche

 

POSTER GALLERY  --view

over 500 German film

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1927–1954  from

Germany and from

many Axis and Neutral countries

across Europe!  

 

Note!  Posters in the Poster Gallery are PERMANENT

acquisitions which are NOT FOR SALE!!   ONLY the

posters listed in our POSTER STORE are for sale. 

(They have a price and order button to use.)

 

 

Hitlerjunge Quex  opened in Berlin and then ran in one hundred and fifteen other Greater Berlin cinemas between  late September 1933 and early February 1934 – here's proof.

 

Some German film histories comment that after its premiere in Berlin's Ufa-Palast-am-Zoo cinema, Quex  ran for a further two weeks there. A reader could infer that the film was therefore unpopular or perhaps even a something of a flop. As if there were not many other Berlin cinemas to present the film in the ensuing weeks and months.

We have acquired the 52 issues for 1933 of the weekly radio programming magazine WOCHENBILD UND FUNKPROGRAMML1140078.jpeg, as well as the first six months of its 1934 issues; which ran one page on a new film of the week. The back cover also listed all of the films showing in Greater Berlin that week at every neighbourhood movie theatre.  We reproduce below the fifteen weeks of listings for Hitlerjunge Quex  from its premiere season at the Ufa-Palast-am-Zoo through to the end of its cinema run in early January 1934 in two movie theatres.  We count 116 movie houses which showed the film for at least a week in those months. Not quite a flop.

 

The film, in fact, ranked # 10 in box office receipts in the 1933/34 annual cinema releases of 114 German feature films premiered that year.

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