This is a list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Germany in 1941.
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Above All Else in the World | Karl Ritter | Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer, Carl Raddatz | Drama | |
Alarm | Herbert B. Fredersdorf | | Crime | |
Annelie | Josef von Báky | Luise Ullrich, Werner Krauss, Käthe Haack | Drama | |
Carl Peters | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, Fritz Odemar | Adventure | |
Clarissa | Gerhard Lamprecht | Sybille Schmitz, Gustav Fröhlich, Gustav Diessl | Romance | |
The Comedians | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten, Gustav Diessl | Drama | |
Everything for Gloria | Carl Boese | Leo Slezak, Laura Solari, Johannes Riemann | Romance | |
Friedemann Bach | | Gustaf Gründgens, Eugen Klöpfer, Leny Marenbach | Biopic | |
The Gasman | Carl Froelich | Heinz Rühmann, Anny Ondra, Charlotte Susa | Comedy | |
Goodbye, Franziska | Helmut Käutner | Marianne Hoppe, Hans Söhnker, Fritz Odemar | Romance | . |
Happiness Is the Main Thing | Theo Lingen | Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Ida Wüst | Comedy | |
Her Other Self | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Hilde Krahl, Mathias Wieman, Harald Paulsen | Drama | |
Ich klage an | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Hartmann, Mathias Wieman | Drama | |
| Karl Anton | Johannes Heesters | Musical romantic comedy | Only Ever You |
| Paul Martin | Johannes Heesters, Gusti Huber | Criminal comedy | Jenny and the Gentleman in Coattails; features brief nudity; involves philately (stamp collecting) |
Kampfgeschwader Lützow | Hans Bertram | Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler, Marietheres Angerpointner, Carsta Löck, Adolf Fischer, Horst Birr, Helmut vom Hofe, Peter Voß | War | Battle Squadron Lützow One of the last films made by Hermann Braun (1918-1945) prior to being drafted and killed in combat. |
Kleine Mädchen-große Sorgen | Boleslaw Barlog | Hannelore Schroth, Geraldine Katt, Hermann Braun, Inge Burg, Dagny Servaes, Eva Prawitz, Fritz Odemar, Carsta Löck, Hans Brausewetter, and Roma Bahn | Comedy? | Little Girl—Very Worried One of the last films made by Hermann Braun (1918-1945) prior to being drafted and killed in combat. |
LAH Im Einsatz | | | | LAH in Action; 39-minute propaganda film about 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler |
Lightning Around Barbara | Werner Klingler | Sybille Schmitz, Attila Hörbiger, Maria Koppenhöfer | Drama | |
Love Is Duty Free | E.W. Emo | Hans Moser | Comedy | Liebe ist zollfrei |
Mamma | Guido Brignone | Beniamino Gigli | | Mother; German-Italian co-production |
Menschen im Sturm | Fritz Peter Buch | Olga Chekhova, Gustav Diessl, Hannelore Schroth, Siegfried Breuer | | People in the Storm; propaganda film justifying the German annexation of northern Slovenia, dramatizing the "oppression" of the Volksdeutsch community there |
My Life for Ireland | Max W. Kimmich | Will Quadflieg, René Deltgen, Anna Dammann, Paul Wegener | | Mein Leben für Irland; dramatic anti-British propaganda film |
Ohm Krüger | Hans Steinhoff | Emil Jannings, Gustaf Gründgens, Ferdinand Marian | | about Paul Kruger, the South African leader in the Boer War; anti-British propaganda |
Pedro Will Hang | Veit Harlan | Gustav Knuth, Heinrich George | Adventure | |
Quax the Crash Pilot | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt | Comedy | pro-Luftwaffe and anti-individualist film with propaganda tendencies |
Riding for Germany | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Willy Birgel | Sport | ...reitet für Deutschland; blacklisted film; director banned for 2 years by the Americans for this film about a tournament runner with blatant patriotic and nationalistic undertones. |
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub | Jürgen von Alten | Gustav Fröhlich, Maria Andergast, Hilde Sessak, Günther Lüders | | Six Days of Home Leave |
Spähtrupp Hallgarten | Herbert B. Fredersdorf | René Deltgen, Paul Klinger, Maria Andergast | War | Hallgarten Patrol; soldier's death propaganda. |
Stukas | Karl Ritter | Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer | War | pro-Luftwaffe propaganda film; "Stuka" was the slang term for the Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber |
The Swedish Nightingale | Peter Paul Brauer | | Musical | |
U-Boote westwärts! | | Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Karl John, Clemens Hasse, Ilse Werner, Admiral Karl Dönitz as himself | Kriegsmarine recruiting and anti-British propaganda film | U-boats Westward; about U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic |
Venus on Trial | Hans H. Zerlett | Hannes Stelzer, Hansi Knoteck | Drama | |
Vertigine | Guido Brignone | Beniamino Gigli | | Tragödie einer Liebe; Broken Love; German-Italian co-production |
What Does Brigitte Want? | Paul Martin | Leny Marenbach, Albert Matterstock | Comedy | |
Women Are Better Diplomats | Georg Jacoby | Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch | | Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten; in Agfacolor | |
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Auf Ostkurs | | | documentary | |
Bauten im neuen Deutschland | C.A. Engel | | documentary | |
Bunte Kriechtierwelt | Wolfram Junghans | | | The Colorful World of Animals that Crawl; nature documentary; in Agfacolor |
Die Englische Krankheit | Kurt Stefan | | documentary | The Sickness of Being English; anti-British propaganda film |
Fliegende Früchte - Wie die Natur pflanzt und sät | Kurt Stefan | | documentary | |
Himmelstürmer. Geburt und Geschichte des Fliegens | Walter Jerven | | | |
Ins Grab kann man nichts mitnehmen | Wolfgang Staudte | | documentary | |
Ins Grab kann man nichts mitnehmen | Wolfgang Staudte | | documentary | |
Leuchtendes Hellas | Hans Bröcker | | documentary | |
Mooswunder | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | | Documentary | |
Der Neusiedler See | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | | documentary | |
Sieg im Westen | Svend Noldan | | | Victory in the West; documentary/propaganda film about Blitzkrieg in Western Europe |
Sonnige Saar | Curt A. Engel | | documentary |
The Soviet Paradise | | | | Sowjetparadies, 14-minute anti-Soviet documentary propaganda film |
Thüringen, das grüne Herz Deutschlands | J.C. Hartmann | | documentary | |
Vom Werden der Kristalle | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | | Documentary | |
Wisente | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | | Documentary | |
Zeitgemäße Pflanzenzucht | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | | Documentary | | |