''Riding for Germany'' () is a 1941 German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Arthur Maria Rabenalt Arthur Maria Rabenalt (25 June 1905 – 26 February 1993) was an Austrian film director, writer, and author. He directed more than 90 films between 1934 and 1978. His 1958 film ''That Won't Keep a Sailor Down'' was entered into the 1st Moscow In ...

and starring

Willy Birgel Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a Germans, German theatre and film actor. Career Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to mo ...

, Gertrud Eysoldt and Gerhild Weber. A German cavalry officer, badly injured during the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

, emerges as a leading competitor in post-war

equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or riding in British English) Examples of this are: *Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...

events.

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* Films of Nazi Germany German sports drama films 1940s sports drama films Films about horses Horse sports in film Films directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt Films set in 1918 Films set in the 1920s UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1941 drama films 1940s German-language films 1940s German films Films scored by Alois Melichar German-language sports drama films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub

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