Ein Mann will nach Deutschland

Paul -(The Golem)- Wegener's `Ein Mann will nach Deutschland' (A German Wants to Go Home), an UFA-production that premiered on 26th July 1934, portrays a German engineer living in South America who hears in 1914 of war in Europe. Realising his obligation for his ‘fatherland', he sets out for Europe, joined by a German comrade. The journey to Germany involves physical hardships, treacherous terrain, and hostile seas, obstacles faced by patriots who have only one thought: home to Germany to help a fatherland under attack.

This Nazi-propaganda picture was one of many made during that time, gradually preparing the Germans for the next war.

The acting is wooden and the intention of this movie all too obvious.

This Wegener film is one of the ones that damaged his reputation the most. A bad film, which is also Nazi propaganda, should not produce any more money today, even through DVD sales. Without inspiration, except for the glorification of the German-fascist pre-war thought, an elevation of the war, through embellishments, weakening of the horrors of war and mendacious focus-setting. Fascist film cannot be art and neither can it be entertaining.