Titanic
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Short description
Set in 1912, this German production dramatises the maiden voyage of the Titanic, the British liner that struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic. The White Star Line has stretched its finances to build the ship, and its president, Bruce Ismay, presses for a fast crossing to impress investors and restore confidence in the company. Captain Edward J. Smith faces warnings of ice while under pressure to keep up speed. Among those aboard is the German officer Petersen, who openly objects to the course being taken. The passengers include a mix of genuine and false aristocrats, wealthy travellers, scholars and emigrants, among them Sigrid Olinsky and John Jacob Astor.
The film was made in Germany during the Second World War and released in September 1943. Herbert Selpin directed it and co-wrote the screenplay with Walter Zerlett-Olfenius and Hansi Köck; Werner Klingler is also credited as director. Willy Reiber produced it for Tobis Filmkunst. The cast includes Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Karl Schönböck, Otto Wernicke and Franz Schafheitlin.
On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.1 from around 2,000 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.1, from a much smaller number of votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Most of the film was shot in the German-occupied Polish port of Gdynia, on the Baltic Sea coast. The passenger liner SS Cap Arcona served as the Titanic. On May 3, 1945, after a raid by the Royal Air Force, the ship also sank. The losses on the liner were more than three times the number of victims on the actual Titanic.
- Walter Zerlett-Olfenius, his close friend and co-writer, denounced the film's director to the Gestapo.
- The film's director, Herbert Zelpin, was extremely dissatisfied with the script and voiced harsh criticism of the film's creators in particular and the fascist regime in general. On July 31, 1942, Zelpin was arrested by the Gestapo, and on August 1, he hanged himself in his own cell. Whether this was suicide or murder remains unknown to this day. Another director completed the film. After the war, the film was banned and was not shown until the mid-1950s.
- In 1943, the film was shown only in certain European cities occupied by the Germans, such as Paris and Prague, but was banned by Joseph Goebbels from release in Germany for moral reasons. Shortly after the war, the film was shown in all countries of the Eastern Bloc as a trophy film, including in Russian. In Germany itself, the fully restored film was released on DVD for the first time, uncensored, only in 2005.
- The film was commissioned by the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels, who wanted to demonstrate the incompetence of Great Britain.
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