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Ride to Freedom

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Ride to Freedom
Directed byKarl Hartl
Written by
Produced byAlfred Greven
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byGertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
Music byWolfgang Zeller
Production
company
Distributed byUFA
Release date
  • 14 January 1937 (1937-01-14)
    • Running time
    		92 minutes
    CountryGermany
    LanguageGerman

    Ride to Freedom (German: Ritt in die Freiheit) is a 1937 German historical war film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal and Hansi Knoteck. The film is set in the 1830s during Poland's November Uprising against the Russian Empire. It portrays the rehabilitation of a Polish cavalry officer whose initial reluctance to engage the enemy leads to the death of his comrades, but who later dies fighting bravely.

    The film was made by German's leading studio UFA, with interiors shot at the Babelsberg Studios. UFA received co-operation from the Polish War Ministry who supplied 5th Regiment of Zaslaw Uhlans for the filming of battle scenes that took place around Ostroleka in Poland. Polish ambassador to Germany Józef Lipski attended the film's premiere at the Palast-am-Zoo in Berlin on 14 January 1937. Around the same time Germany and Poland, future enemies in the Second World War, co-produced two films, namely Augustus the Strong and Adventure in Warsaw.[1]

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    References

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    1. ^ Kreimeier p. 283

    Bibliography

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    • Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
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