Herbert Selpin

Herbert Selpin was born in Berlin in 1902. He abandoned medical studies, was in turn a bookseller, a boxer and a dancer, then joined Ufa in the mid-twenties as a trainee and became an editor. He directed his first film in 1931 and went on to make comedies, adventure films and propaganda films. In 1942, denounced by his co-screenwriter Walter Zerlett-Olfenius for remarks against the army, which he refused to withdraw before Goebbels, he was arrested and found hanged the next day in his cell, and it has never been established whether it was a suicide.

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• CinemaTitanicHerbert Selpin · 1943Cinema