IM SCHATTEN DER DIKTATUR - DER SCHAUSPIELER RENÉ DELTGEN

In the organizer's words:

by Frank Feitler and Kristof van Boven

West German post-war children know René Deltgen as the "Paul Temple" narrator on the radio and as "The Witcher" in the Edgar Wallace movie; his last television role was the Alm-Öhi in a "Heidi" film adaptation. Deltgen, who had specialized in heroes since the beginning of his UFA career, became deeply entangled in the Nazis' media strategy through propaganda films and was still on Hitler's list of favourite actors shortly before the end of the war.
The state of Luxembourg put him on trial after the war and revoked his citizenship. At the trial for his Nazi involvement, Deltgen defended himself with exemplary naivety - he had only ever been an actor, and he had only ever fulfilled orders and contracts ... no sense of guilt, nowhere. His homeland particularly resented the fact that he had officially campaigned among young people for the Nazis and for the annexation of Luxembourg by Hitler's Germany.

The two Luxembourg actors André Jung (most recently seen in the cinema in "Wanda mein Wunder" and in the television series "Unbroken" and on stage in "Verrückt nach Trost" by Thorsten Lensing) and Luc Feit ("Babylon Berlin"), who are also successful in Germany, try to get closer to Deltgen and get a picture of the life of an artist during the dictatorship.

Production: Escher Theater

Co-production: Esch2022 - Capitale Européenne de la culture, Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, St. Pauli Theater, Hamburg