Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (German: Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies) is a 1940 German film, based on the novel Passion by Norbert Jacques.
The film focuses on the early career of the German poet Friedrich Schiller.
Friedrich Schiller cost 1,935,000 ℛℳ (equivalent to $8,564,587 in 2021) to produce.
[1] Joseph Goebbels was concerned that audiences would not understand the propaganda in the film.
It was successful and premiered at the Capitol am Zoo in Berlin on 17 December.