Opfergang (1944)




Kristina Söderbaum - Opfergang

Franz Schafheitlin, Irene von Meyendorff - Opfergang

Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum - Opfergang




Albrecht Froben is married to Oktavia, but falls in love with his neighbor, Aels Flodéen. When Aels is infected with typhoid, Albrecht brings her daughter in safety, but is infected himself and must stay in quarantine. Octavia dresses up as Albrecht and drives by Aels' house, giving her faith. Aels dies, but Albrecht survives and returns to his wife.


Vintage magazines

Filmwelt 43/44, 25. November 1942

Film programs

Das Programm von heute nr. 1882

Books with substantial mentioning of Opfergang

Friedemann Beyer, Gert Koshofer, Michael Krüger
UFA in Farbe, Technik, Politik und Starkult zwischen 1936 und 1945
München, 2010

Antje Ascheid
Hitler's Heroines, Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema
Philadelphia, 2003

Jo Fox
Filming Women in the Third Reich
Oxford - New York, 2000

Karlheinz Wendtland
Geliebter Kintopp, Sämtliche deutsche Spielfilme von 1929-1945 - Jahrgang 1943, 1944 und 1945
Berlin, [1987]

Articles on Opfergang

Rainer Rother, Suggestion der Farben, Die Doppelproduktion: "Immensee" und "Opfergang", in: Hans-Michael Bock und Michael Töteberg (Hg.), Das Ufa-Buch, Frankfurt am Main, 1992

Articles with substantial mentioning of Opfergang

Slavoj Zizek, Guilty Pleasures, in: Filmcomment, nr. 1 (January/Februari), 2006 pp. 12-13