Horst Caspar playing the Prussian war hero Lieutenant-Colonel August Neidhardt von Gneisenau in the film 'Kolberg' which was produced and directed by the Reich's leading propaganda director Veit Harlan. The movie depicted the legendary defense of Kolberg from French troops in 1807 by von Gneisenau during the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of the most state-of-the-art film productions ever made at the time, using full color cameras and running at a budget of over 8 million Reichsmarks.
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