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Unternehmen Michael
''Unternehmen Michael'' (Operation Michael or The Michael Action; English title ''The Private's Job''〔) is a 1937 German film directed by Karl Ritter, the first of three films about the First World War which he made during the period when the Third Reich was rearming.
== Plot summary ==
The film is set in the First World War and is based on a 1932 play by Hans Fritz von Zwehl (''Frühlingsschlacht'', 'Spring Battle', originally also titled ''Unternehmen Michael'')〔("ZWEHL, von, Hans Fritz" ), ''Wer ist wer?: das deutsche Who's who'' Volume 12, Lübeck: Schmidt Römhild, 1955, p. 1304 〕〔Heinz Schlötermann, ''Das deutsche Weltkriegsdrama 1919–1937: eine wertkritische Analyse'', "Nationaltheater", Schriftenreihe des theaterwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena II, Würzburg-Aumühle: K. Triltsch, 1939, , (p. 29 ) 〕 about the German offensive Operation Michael during the First World War, which was launched on 21 March 1918. The British are in possession of the village of Beaurevoir. The Germans plan to send in assault troops to take the village, but their commanding officer, Captain Hill, is injured the night before. A desk officer, Major zur Linden (Mathias Wieman), volunteers to lead the mission. The unit succeed but find themselves surrounded by the enemy. They discuss their options and Major zur Linden's advocacy of a heroic death for the sake of their country wins out over the defeatist and the traditional military pragmatist; the Germans declare a ceasefire and then the commanding general, in full knowledge, gives the order for their artillery to bombard the village as the British are storming it, thereby sacrificing their own men in order to kill the enemy.〔Harry Waldman, ''Nazi Films in America, 1933–1942'', Jefferson, North Carolina/London: McFarland, 2008, ISBN 9780786438617, (p. 166 ), referring to it as the First Battle of the Somme.〕〔John Altmann, "The Technique and Content of Hitler's War Propaganda Films: Part II: Karl Ritter's 'Soldier' Films", Hollywood Quarterly, 5.1, Autumn 1950, pp. 61–72, (p. 63 ).〕〔David Stewart Hull, ''Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema 1933–1945'', Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California, 1969, , (p. 118 ).〕 The sacrifice is not in vain; it enables the Germans to push forward to the British fortress, the 'Labyrinth'.〔Giesen, pp. 52–55, citing Roger Manvell, ''Films and the Second World War'', South Brunswick, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes, 1974, ISBN 9780498014734, p. 51.〕
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