Pastor Hall

Pastor Hall

95 mins | Drama | May 28, 1940

This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

Pastor Hall

95 mins | Drama | May 28, 1940

Pastor Hall
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Charter Film Productions
Original title Pastor Hall
Directors Roy Boulting
Writers Haworth Bromley, Anna Reiner, Ernst Toller, Leslie Arliss

Cast

Wilfrid Lawson

as Pastor Frederick Hall

Nova Pilbeam

as Christine Hall

Seymour Hicks

as General von Grotjahn

Marius Goring

as Fritz Gerte

Brian Worth

as Werner von Grotjahn

Percy Walsh

as Herr Veit

Lina Barrie

as Lina Veit

Eliot Makeham

as Pippermann

Peter Cotes

as Erwin Kohn

Edmund Willard

as Freundlich

Hay Petrie

as Nazi Pastor

Bernard Miles

as Heinrich Degan

Manning Whiley

as Vogel

J. Fisher White

as Johann Herder

Barbara Gott

as Frau Kemp