Operation Teutonic Sword

• Movies
• 1958-06-06
• DE
• Released
• 0h 49m
• XG
• Documentary

• 0.0
• 0

Production

DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme

Storyline

An East German documentary by Andrew and Annelie Thorndike investigating NATO General Hans Speidel’s alleged role in the 1934 assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander I and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Drawing on archival footage and documents, it scrutinizes Speidel’s past and postwar career, provoking controversy and a ban in West Germany. The film won First Prize at the 1958 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Heinrich Greif Prize in East Germany.