An Enemy of the People (German: Ein Volksfeind) is a 1937 German drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Heinrich George, Herbert Hübner, Franziska Kinz and Carsta Löck. The film is an adaptation of the 1882 play of the same title by the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location around Glücksburg and the Flensburg Fjord in Schleswig-Holstein. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Haacker and Hermann Warm. It updates the setting of the story from Norway in the 1880s to pre-Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
In a small German spa town of Bad Trimburg towards the end of the Weimar Republic Doctor Hans Stockmann discovers that the local medicinal springs, the lifeblood of his town's economy, are dangerously contaminated. When he attempts to go public his own brother, the mayor, leads the community in a fierce campaign to suppress the truth to protect their profits. Abandoned by the local press and fellow townspeople, the doctor is branded a "Volksfeind" (enemy of the people) during a chaotic town meeting. Despite the social ruin and threats to his family, Stockmann remains defiant, choosing his principles over the corrupt interests of the majority.