Titanic (1943) - Part 1

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

(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

[dreadpirateroberts11]

@CaseClosedEpisodes this isnt even close to fact...this is wwii propaganda used to depict germans as heroes in a tragedy, and british as idiots

[garrus210]

@dreadpirateroberts11 like today? "Saving Private Ryan" "pearl harbor" or "the patriot" ???

or somthing stupid like this: /watch?v=Zoq1gzo_pSg ?

[emlodik]

@Schleiban No, just another Titanic movie in the string of many.

[arash1530]

this is old



[JaroWars]

love how they pronounce english names in a german way ;)

[nellgwenn]

@powerpats A portent to things to come in the very near future.

And so ends Goebbels career as a would-be Cecil B. DeMille.

[powerpats]

@nellgwenn And not only that but Goebbels banned the movie because it seemed unfit to have a movie about a disaster while whole germany was in ruins itself.

[maxititanic1]

the interior is not so titanic, sinking less but I remember that in 1943 he knew little of the titanic

[nellgwenn]

The beast part of this movie is that due to Allied bombing it never got to have it's premier with people waling on a red carpet.

[nellgwenn]

@RodmasterStudios No the trade journal Shipbuilder's had an article in it about the Titanic talking about the safety features and touted the ship as being, practically unsinkable." The White Star Line never said the Titanic was unsinkable.

[nellgwenn]

@dreadpirateroberts11 Which begs the question if the British were such idiots and evil, what was a German doing working for the White Star Line ( which we all know was American owned) and not a German cruise line? Especially at a time when Germany and England were constantly vying for supremacy of the trans-Atlantic cruise trade.