Titanic (1943) - Part 7

Plot:
Titanic was a 1943 Nazi propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA. The film used the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a setting for an attempt to discredit British and American capitalist dealings and glorify the bravery and selflessness of Germanic men. The film is known for its extremely dark production history and, ironically, became the symbol of the corruption and "sinking" of the Third Reich itself.
Cult icon Sybille Schmitz, who would achieve everlasting fame twenty-seven years after her death when R. W. Fassbinder adapted her unhappy life into his famous film Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, has her most widely accessible role for today's audience in this film.

Directed By:
Herbert Selpin
Werner Klinger


Release Date:
November 10, 1943


Cast:
Sybille Schmitz as Sigrid Olinsky
Hans Nielsen as 1st Officer Petersen
Kirsten Heiberg as Gloria
Ernst Fritz Fürbinger as Sir Bruce Ismay
Karl Schönböck as John Jacob Astor
Charlotte Thiele as Lady Astor
Otto Wernicke as Captain Edward J. Smith
Franz Schafheitlin as Hunderson
Sepp Rist as Jan
Monika Burg as Miss Hedy
Jolly Bohnert as Marcia
Fritz Böttger as Lord Douglas
Hermann Brix as Chapel-Master Gruber
Lieselott Klinger as Anne
Theodor Loos as Private Council Bergmann

(In German with English subtitles)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Titanic
• 1943
• movie
• drama
• disaster
• SYBILLE
• SCHMITZ
• HANS
• NIELSEN
• ERNST
• FRITZ
• FURBRINGER
• OTTO
• WERNICKE
• real
• life
• history

[bboucharde]

It's a good thing that Goering was not on the Titanic---He would have taken up an entire lifeboat for his ample carcass!

[Ladhoise]

ab 3:15 errinert mich der film an Jack und Rose aus dem titanic Film von 1997

[kingofcouture1996]

@fisteberg Yes,you are right it is racist against British,americans,irish and most of europe,but this is a nazi film made with disregard for accuracy or fairness,that is the sad truth....

[fisteberg]

The movie was used to glorify the bravery and selflessness of germanic people.But it's bad because some american and british in 1912 were just brave i think and courageous.THis is a bit ideological and racist against american and europeans.

[fisteberg]

Sorry but i've just discovered this movie tonight and i cannot see the relation between the TITANIC disaster and the NAZI propaganda.It has nothing in common.Nazi existed during second world war whereas TItanic sunk in 1912.This scene is awful and well done and the people are scared to death, but the Nazi propaganda has nothing to do here,in this movie.A bit weird.

[bboucharde]

@matke91 Yes, but it is interesting to read about Goering's early career---He was a very good pilot and brave man. He was also very interested in natural resource conservation (in the context of the hunting that he loved). He was unlucky to be born into Germany at that time. If he had been born in the USA, he would probably be celebrated now as a hero.

[matke91]

@bboucharde its a bad thing, because he was so fat they could use him as a life raft!

[XOPAUXO]

0:46, its obvious that Cameron copied this scene, it looks the same that when Rose asks Thomas Andrews for the iceberg

[nellgwenn]

@emlodik You are proposing that if I were to ask James Cameron: Did you use the anti-British Nazi propaganda movie Titanic which came from the mind of Joseph Goebbels for plot points in your movie Titanic he would say yes?

I don't think so.

He would have to admit to in unequivocally and say yes for me to believe it.

Everything you point to is circumstantial.

[emlodik]

@nellgwenn Did you even watch this version? The scene were Astor fights with Madeleine? The axe rescue? Stolen jewelry subplot? The scene where Petersen foces Sigrid into the final lifeboat? Or when he runs from a rushing wave while holding a small child?

[nellgwenn]

@emlodik All i know is what Cameron said. He said that he saw the 1953 Titanic as a kid and was blown away. Which makes sense because as a kid he would have been exposed to that and not this. The whole story is about a poor guy who meets a rich girl and they fall in love. The poor teaches the rich girl how to dance to a rag, not now to spit. The father is a rich snotty asshole like Billy Zane and Rose's mom. Of course the father and the poor guy both die and the rich girl lives. Sound Familiar?

[emlodik]

@nellgwenn Are you seriously gonna watch the 1943 version and then tell me Cameron did NOT crib a few ideas from it?