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{{Short description|German film director}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv N 1275 Bild-184, Tonbildaufnahme mit Oskar Messter.jpg|thumb|Carl Froelich directing ''Die Regimentstochter'' (1908)]]
'''Carl August Hugo Froelich''' (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a
==Biography==
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Between 1912 and 1951 he made 77 films.
In 1913 Froelich made his directorial debut with ''[[Richard Wagner (film)|Richard Wagner]]''. In 1920 he founded his own production company, Froelich-Film GmbH, among the productions of which were ''[[Kabale und Liebe]]'' (1921), ''[[Die Brüder Karamasoff]]'' (1922), and ''[[Mutter und Kind]]'' (1924). During these years he often filmed with the actress [[Henny Porten]], who made her screen debut in one of his earliest films, and with whom between 1926 and 1929 he shared ownership of a production company.
In 1929 Froelich made the first German [[sound film]], ''[[Die Nacht gehört uns]]'' ("The Night Belongs To Us"). In 1930 he took over two glasshouses in [[Berlin-Tempelhof]], which had been used as studios in the days of [[silent film]], and had them converted to sound film studios. Here he produced many films, including [[Rolf Hansen (director)|Rolf Hansen]]'s short film ''[[Das Schönheitsfleckchen]]'' (1936) ("The Beauty Spot"), the first German [[drama film]] in colour. In 1931 he was advisor, as "senior artistic director", to [[Leontine Sagan]]'s famous boarding-school film and later [[lesbian]] classic, ''[[Mädchen in Uniform (1931 film)|Mädchen in Uniform]]'' ("Girls in Uniform") (1931).
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===Culture politics===
Froelich became a member of the [[Nazi Party|National Socialist Party]] in 1933 and took over the direction of the ''Gesamtverbandes der Filmherstellung und Filmverwertung'' ("Union of Film Manufacture and Film Evaluation"). In 1937 he was awarded a professorship and in 1939 was appointed president of the ''[[Reichsfilmkammer]]'', an office which he retained until the end of the [[World War II|war]] in 1945. The ''Reichsfilmkammer'' was subordinate to the ''[[Reichskulturkammer]]'', which as a [[National Socialist]] trade organisation regulated and controlled access to all artistic professions. He was one of the few filmmakers that received the title "Filmprofessor" from Goebbels.<ref>Cinzia Romani, ''Tainted Goddesses: Female Film Stars of the Third Reich'' p38 {{ISBN
===After the end of the war===
After the end of the war Froelich was arrested and in 1948 [[Denazification|de-Nazified]]. His studio had been badly damaged during the war and did not resume production. Only two more films were made under his direction before his death: ''
==Selected filmography==
* ''[[Werner Krafft]]'' (1916)
* ''[[Ikarus, the Flying Man]]'' (1918)
* ''[[The Loves of Käthe Keller]]'' (1919)
* ''[[Wandering Souls]]'' (1921)
* ''[[The Brothers Karamazov (1921 film)|The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1921)
* ''[[Island of the Dead (1921 film)|Island of the Dead]]'' (1921)
* ''[[In Thrall to the Claw]]'' (1921)
* ''[[The Weather Station (1923 film)|The Weather Station]]'' (1923)
* ''[[Mother and Child (1924 film)|Mother and Child]]'' (1924)
* ''[[Chamber Music (film)|Chamber Music]]'' (1925)
* ''[[The Adventures of Sybil Brent]]'' (1925)
* ''[[Tragedy (1925 film)|Tragedy]]'' (1925)
* ''[[The Flames Lie]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Roses from the South (film)|Roses from the South]]'' (1926)
* ''[[The Long Intermission]]'' (1927)
* ''[[My Aunt, Your Aunt (1927 film)|My Aunt, Your Aunt]]'' (1927)
* ''[[Lotte (film)|Lotte]]'' (1928)
* ''[[Escape (1928 film)|Escape]]'' (1928)
* ''[[Love in the Cowshed]]'' (1928)
* ''[[Violantha (film)|Violantha]]'' (1928)
* ''[[The Night Belongs to Us]]'' (1929)
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* ''[[The Woman Everyone Loves Is You]]'' (1929)
* ''[[Hans in Every Street]]'' (1930)
* ''[[
* ''[[Louise, Queen of Prussia (film)|Louise, Queen of Prussia]]'' (1931)
* ''[[Mädchen in Uniform (1931 film)|Mädchen in Uniform]]'' (1931)
* ''[[This One or None]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Gitta Discovers Her Heart]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Love at First Sight (1932 film)|Love at First Sight]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Ripening Youth (1933 film)|Ripening Youth]]'' (1933)
* ''[[The Hymn of Leuthen]]'' (1933)
* ''[[Trouble with Jolanthe]]'' (1934)
* ''[[I for You, You for Me]]'' (1934)
* ''[[Sergeant Schwenke]]'' (1935)
* ''[[The Private Life of Louis XIV]]'' (1935)
* ''[[I Was Jack Mortimer]]'' (1935)
* ''[[The Dreamer (1936 film)|The Dreamer]]'' (1936)
* ''[[
* ''[[If We All Were Angels (1936 film)|If We All Were Angels]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Such Great Foolishness]]'' (1937)
* ''[[Heimat (1938 film)|Heimat]]'' (1938)
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* ''[[Wedding in Barenhof]]'' (1942)
* ''[[The Buchholz Family]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Marriage of Affection]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Three Girls Spinning]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Stips]]'' (1951)
* ''[[The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach]]'' (1917)
* ''[[The Salamander Ruby]]'' (1918)
===Producer===
* ''[[The Lovers of Midnight (1931 film)|The Lovers of Midnight]]'' (1931)
* ''[[The Hunter from Kurpfalz]]'' (1933)
* ''[[The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936 film)|The Abduction of the Sabine Women]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Carmen, la de Triana]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Torreani]]'' (1951)
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|id=0296193}}
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* {{PM20|FID=pe/005647}}
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