La tragedia del Titanic

Titolo originale: Titanic
Regia: Werner Klingler | Herbert Selpin |
Anno: 1943
Origine: Germany |
Generi: Dramma Storia
Tag: sea | captain | passenger | cruise | iceberg | titanic | steamboat | downfall | lifeboat | historical drama | nazi propaganda | 1910s | 20th century |
Cast: Sybille Schmitz | Hans Nielsen | Kirsten Heiberg | Karl Schönböck | Otto Wernicke | Franz Schafheitlin | Ernst Fritz Fürbringer | Sepp Rist | Theodor Loos | Hermann Brix | Claude Farell | Fritz Genschow | Lieselotte Klingler | Karl Meixner | Werner Scharf | Walter Steinbeck | Charlotte Thiele | Theo Shall | Herbert Tiede |

Questo film tedesco poco conosciuto racconta la vera storia del transatlantico britannico che ha incontrato un tragico destino. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer interpreta il presidente della White Star Line, che incautamente ha spinto il capitano del Titanic (Otto Wernicke) a fare la traversata più rapida possibile verso New York. È interessante notare che il regista Herbert Selpin è stato arrestato dalla Gestapo durante la produzione di questo film e la censura tedesca ha vietato il film per le sue scene di panico e terrore.

Approfondimenti

The model sequences were shot at night on location at a lake outside Berlin. Bad weather and malfunc [...] D
Although most propaganda movies are banned in Germany, sometimes this movie is broadcast on TV, albe [...] D
Joseph Goebbels approved a budget of 4 million Reichsmarks--equivalent to $180 million in 2012 dolla [...] D
Final film of Lieselott Klingler. D
After the film was confiscated by the Allies in 1945, footage from the sinking scenes would be recyc [...] D
After seeing this film, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels thought the scenes of mass panic were no [...] D
Theodor Loos had previously starred in another dramatization of the Titanic disaster, Atlantik (1929 [...] D
Director Herbert Selpin was arrested by the Gestapo during this film's production. He was found hang [...] D
Final film directed by Herbert Selpin. D
Sailors and officers from the German Navy played members of the White Star Line crew when exterior s [...] D
After one week of troubled shooting on the Cap Arcona, Herbert Selpin called a crisis meeting where [...] D
The stern, cowl vents, bridge, and bow well deck on the Titanic model were all altered, most noticea [...] D
The film endured many production difficulties, including a clash of egos, massive creative differenc [...] D
Nighttime location shoots, with massive amounts of studio lighting, made the production a likely tar [...] D
The premiere was supposed to occur in Paris early 1943, but the theatre that housed the answer print [...] D
The film was a pet project of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels who wanted to change the real [...] D
After the end of World War II, "Titanic" became one of the numerous German "trophy films" that were [...] D
In the original script, Sybille Schmitz's character was a Danish aristocrat named "Sigrid Oole." For [...] D
The film was re-discovered in 1949, but was quickly banned in most western countries. Shortly after [...] D
The sinking scenes were filmed on board the former luxury liner Cap Arcona. This boat was used in 19 [...] D
The character Franz Gruber is very loosely based on Wallace Hartley, who was also the main violinist [...] D