Ordered to Love (1961)
Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."
- Released
- 1961-01-13
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Heinz Oskar Wuttig, Werner Klingler, Will Berthold
- TMDB rating
- 3.6/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Maria Perschy as Doris Korff
- Joachim Hansen as Oberlt. Klaus Steinbach
- Harry Meyen as Hauptsturmführer Dr. Hagen
- Marisa Mell as Erika Meuring
- Emmerich Schrenk as Obersturmbandführer Meyer-Westroff
- Joachim Mock as Hauptsturmführer Kempe
- Gert Günther Hoffmann as Oberlt. Mertens
- Waldemar Tepel as SS Sturmführer Hellmich
- Rosemarie Kirstein as Lotte
- Renate Küster as Marlene
- Hellmut Lange as Oberscharführer Niedermeyer
- Horst Keitel as Oberlt. Adameit