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Cadets (German: Kadetten) is a 1939 German historical war film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, and Andrews Engelmann. The film is set in 1760, against the backdrop of the Austro-Russian Raid on Berlin during the Seven Years' War. It depicts a group of Prussian cadets holding off superior Russian forces.

Cadets
Directed by	Karl Ritter
Written by	Karl Ritter Felix Lützkendorf
Produced by	Karl Ritter
Starring	Mathias Wieman Carsta Löck Andrews Engelmann Theo Shall
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Edited by	Gottfried Ritter
Music by	Herbert Windt
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release dates	5 September 1939 (1939-09-05) (11th Nuremberg Rally) 2 December 1941 (1941-12-02) (general release)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Because of its anti-Russian theme the film was pulled from release in 1939 following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It was put on general release in December 1941, once Germany and the Soviets were at war.[1]

The film is loosely connected to the Prussian film cycle of historical epics.

Cast

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.

External links

• Cadets at IMDb

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