---
title: 'Legion Condor (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Karl Ritter'
released: '1939-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'Nazi Germany'
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/legion-condor-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031561/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Legion Condor (1939)

1939 · Documentary · Nazi Germany, Germany


## Synopsis

Legion Condor is a 1939 German war film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Paul Hartmann, Albert Hehn and Fritz Kampers. The film portrays the German Condor Legion, which fought in the Spanish Civil War. Because of the German-Soviet Pact, the production was halted after 15 days of shooting, on 25 August 1939, to avoid offending the Soviets, who had supported the other side in Spain and were negatively portrayed in the film. Karl Ritter's diary entry that day stated that Hermann Göring had called the Ufa studio to tell him to abort the film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Karl Ritter](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-ritter-2)
- **Producer:** [Karl Ritter](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-ritter-2)
- **Screenplay:** [Felix Lützkendorf](https://cinepixo.com/people/felix-lutzkendorf)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Windt](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-windt)
- **Director of Photography:** [Günther Anders](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunther-anders)
- **Editor:** [Gottfried Ritter](https://cinepixo.com/people/gottfried-ritter)

## Cast

- [Karl Klüsner](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-klusner)
- [Wolfgang Staudte](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-staudte)
- [Carsta Löck](https://cinepixo.com/people/carsta-lock)
- [Josef Dahmen](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-dahmen)
- [Fritz Kampers](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-kampers)
- [Albert Hehn](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-hehn)
- [Ernst Bader](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-bader)
- [Andrews Engelmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrews-engelmann)
- [Willi Rose](https://cinepixo.com/people/willi-rose)
- [Paul Hartmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hartmann)
- [Friedrich Gnaß](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-gna)
- [Herbert A.E. Böhme](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-a-e-bohme)
- [Heinz Welzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-welzel)
- [Karl John](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-john)
- [Lutz Götz](https://cinepixo.com/people/lutz-gotz)

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