Summary This film is based on the story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930s has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers who go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit. View more details
Directed : Roy Boulting
Written : Leslie Arliss Ernst Toller Anna Reiner
Stars : Marius Goring Nova Pilbeam Wilfrid Lawson Seymour Hicks
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 12, 1940
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Production companies : Charter Film Productions
Summary This film is based on the story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930s has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers who go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 12, 1940
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Production companies : Charter Film Productions