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6.1/10 • 79

1943-11-101h 25m

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This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.

Directors
Werner Klingler, Herbert Selpin
Writters
Walter Zerlett-Olfenius, Herbert Selpin
Editors
Friedel Buckow

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Sybille Schmitz

    Sybille Schmitz

    Sigrid Olinsky

  2. Hans Nielsen

    Hans Nielsen

    Offizier Petersen

  3. Kirsten Heiberg

    Kirsten Heiberg

    Gloria

  4. Karl Schönböck

    Karl Schönböck

    John Jacob Astor

  5. Otto Wernicke

    Otto Wernicke

    Kapitän Edward J. Smith

  6. Franz Schafheitlin

    Franz Schafheitlin

    Hunderson

  7. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

    Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

    Sir Joseph Bruce Ismay

  8. Sepp Rist

    Sepp Rist

    Jan

  9. Theodor Loos

    Theodor Loos

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CinemaSerf

Apr 24, 2024

6/10

Right from the beginning, it's quite hard to take this too seriously. A group of investors gather only to realise that the White Star Line is quite literally running on fumes. Their stock is falling through the floor due to the extravagances of the spend on the RMS Titanic and it's chairman "Ismay" (Ernest Fritz Fürbringer) decides that they will have to find the ship's wealthiest clients and try to coax them into reversing this decline. Then to sea and the film becomes a standard series of maritime melodramas with loads of treachery, adultery and for many the impending iceberg may well have been welcome! The concluding scenes are actually quite tensely handled by Herbert Selpin but the exaggerated characterisations and clearly expressed anti-British sentiment, as well as scant attention to the known facts - even in 1943 - render the thing little better than a piece of clumsy propaganda that played a bit fast and loose with some real historical figures. The only thing that was really missing was an assertion that the iceberg was just a craftily disguised U-boat! It's worth a watch, though - at times the philosophies of venality and cowardice from some aboard might be nearer the mark than we'd care to admit.

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Status
Released
Original Language
German
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
seacaptainpassengercruiseicebergtitanicsteamboatdownfalllifeboat