Fritz Kirchhoff | |
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Born | |
Died | 25 June 1953 | (aged 51)
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Years active | 1937–1950 (director) |
Fritz Kirchhoff (1901–1953) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. He was a noted director during the Nazi era, directing film such as the anti-British propaganda thriller Attack on Baku (1942). His 1942 film 5 June, showing the German defeat of France in 1940, was banned by Joseph Goebbels for unclear reasons, although it has been speculated it was to avoid offending the Vichy government.[1] After the Second World War Kirchhoff set up his own production company in Hamburg.