Centenary Films
Centenary Films Limited is a film production company that specialises in telling memorable stories with a wartime theme.
It aims to offer employment and resettlement opportunities to military veterans, especially those wounded during their service.
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Centenary Films Limited is currently putting together the team and generating the funding to produce "Camp 21".
Camp 21 - The Movie
"From Total War to Total Trust"
"Camp 21" is a feature-length dramatised biopic of the life and work of Herbert Sulzbach OBE at Cultybraggan Camp near Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The planned release date is Wednesday, 1st November 2023.
Camp 21 was notorious for the lynching of Feldwebel Wolfgang Rosterg on 23rd December, 1944, which led to the largest mass hanging of the last century.
"Camp 21" tells the story of this true event and the man who helped bring the culprits to justice.
Duration
The expected film duration is 120 minutes, spanning the events at Camp 21 between November 1944 and December 1945. During this time, there was a suicide, a murder and a fatal shooting. Outside, the Battle of the Bulge faltered, Adolf Hitler killed himself, the war in Europe ended and the horrors of the concentration camps were discovered.
Camp 21 Location
The majority of the filming will be on location at Cultybraggan Camp, the original Camp 21. For more information, visit their web site, at http://www.cultybraggancamp.co.uk/. Our thanks go to the Trustees of Comrie Development Trust for supporting this production.
Principal Photography
Principal Photography is planned at Cultybraggan Camp during the autumn of 2022, with the final scene (the Armistice Day Parade) shooting on 11th November, the anniversary of the actual event.
Fundraising
Our fundraising target for the development phase of "Camp 21" is £150k. Please contact us
if you can help with generating this initial investment.
Who was Herbert Sulzbach?
Herbert Sulzbach was an extraordinary man who only discovered his true calling late in life. Serving in the Imperial German Army during the Great War, he was an outspoken critic of the Nazi regime when Hitler came to power. In consequence, he and his wife Beate had to flee Germany in 1938, subsequently being interned by the British on the Isle of Man at the start of World War II. Following his release, he volunteered for the Pioneer Corps and helped build defences in the South of England. After D-Day, he became an interpreter, eventually being posted to Camp 21 in January 1945.
At Camp 21, he was responsible for encouraging many indoctrinated young men to renounce their hateful beliefs. At the end of his tour, he organised a Remembrance Sunday parade, which nearly the whole camp attended. He read them "On Flanders Fields" and the prisoners made a solemn vow of peace, rejecting forever the poisonous ideology of National Socialism.
Now commissioned as an officer, Sulzbach was posted to Camp 18 at Featherstone Park in Northumberland, remaining there until the last Germans returned home in June 1948. Afterwards, over 3,000 of these former inmates personally wrote and thanked him for the difference that he had made to their lives.
In recognition for his work in re-forging the bonds of friendship between Great Britain and Germany, Sulzbach was awarded the European Cross of Peace in 1978. He also received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. Finally, he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1982. These decorations he proudly wore alongside his Iron Crosses from the Great War. He is believed to be the only man commissioned as an officer under both the Kaiser and King George VI.
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