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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)
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)