Helmut Kautner - Grosse Freiheit No. 7 (1944)

Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film, named after Grosse Freiheit (grand freedom), a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St. Pauli red light district. The film, which features songs like "La Paloma", tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger (played by Hans Albers) who works in a Reeperbahn club and falls in love with a girl played by Ilse Werner. Due to the threat of Allied bombing raids to Hamburg Harbour and to the Ufa studios in Berlin's Neubabelsberg and Tempelhof when it was made in 1943 (May to November), most of the movie was shot in Prague's Barrandov Studios by Helmut Käutner, as the first Agfa colorfilm by Terra. For a scene with a boat trip in Hamburg harbour, war ships had to be covered up.Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was dissatisfied, and demanded many changes to make the film more "German", for instance by renaming the lead role from Jonny (as in Albers' earlier hit song "Good bye, Jonny") to Hannes. After a year of editing, the movie was banned anyway in Nazi Germany on 12 December 1944,[1][2] and was only shown outside of the Gro