S.A.-Mann Brand

S.A.-Mann Brand (Storm Trooper Brand) is a German film made around the time that Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. It was released in mid-June 1933. The film presents the story of a truck driver, Fritz Brand, who joins the Nazi Sturmabteilung to defend Germany against communist subversion orchestrated from Moscow. He persuades his social circle of the imminent danger and the need to support Hitler in the federal election. A review in The New York Times noted favorably the film's production value and the absence of any anti-Semitic message but also expressed contempt for its unsophisticated plot. Cast Heinz Klingenberg as Fritz Brand Wera Liessem as Anni Baumann Rolf Wenkhaus as Erich Lohner Hedda Lembach as Margaret Lohner Otto Wernicke as Herr Brand Elise Aulinger as Frau Brand Joe Stöckel as Anton Huber Helma Rückert as Genoveva Huber Max Weydner as Alexandr Turow Philipp Weichand as SA-Wirt Fritz Greiner as Herr Baumann Magda Lena as Frau Baumann Rudolf Frank as Neuberg Manfred Koempel as Pilot, himself Theo Kaspar as himself Wastl Witt as Wirt "Café Diana" Rudolf Kunig as Stadtrat Rolat Josef Eichheim as unknown