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Crisis (1939 film)

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Crisis
Screenshot of title card
Directed byHerbert Kline
Hans Burger (co-director)
Alexander Hammid (co-director)
Written byVincent Sheean
Screenplay byHans Burger
Alexander Hammid
Produced byHerbert Kline
StarringEduard Benes
Leif Erickson
Konrad Henlein
Narrated byLeif Erickson
CinematographyAlexander Hammid
Edited byAlexander Hammid
Music byH. W. Susskind
Jaroslav Harvan
Distributed byArthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn
Release date
  • March 13, 1939 (1939-03-13) (USA)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Crisis (1939) is a feature-length documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis. It was released briefly before the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939. The film was directed by Herbert Kline, Hans Burger, and Alexander Hammid, with narration written by Vincent Sheean and read by Leif Erickson. The National Board of Review named Crisis one of the ten best films of 1939.[1]

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  1. ^ Awards Information for Crisis, 1939 Film. IMDb. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
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