Große Freiheit Nr. 7

Große Freiheit Nr. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit , a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St. Pauli red light district. The film is also known as Port of Freedom in the United Kingdom. The film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger 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 , 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 warships 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 to Hannes.
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