Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918)

Name: Ikarus, the Flying Man
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Released: 1918-10-27

1h 35m

Running Time

Plot.

Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.

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Cast & Crew.

Ernst Hofmann

Günther Ellinghaus

Esther Carena

Clemence de Montignon

Gustav Botz

Günther's Father

Olga Engl

Günther's Mother

Heinz Sarnow

Baron d'Aubigny

Edith Sorel

Cousin Erika

Ernst Rennspies

Political Agent

Karl Julius Fritzsche

Producer

Carl Froelich

Director

Leo Heller

Writer

Hermann Böttger

Director of Photography

Details.

Release Date
October 27, 1918

Original Name
Ikarus, der fliegende Mensch

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 35m

Genres
Drama War & Politics

Last updated: 2023-11-15

This Movie Is About.

partially lost film

Wiki.

Ikarus, the Flying Man (German: Ikarus, der fliegende Mensch) is a 1918 German silent war film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Ernst Hofmann, Esther Carena and Gustav Botz. While a press screening was held in October 1918, during the final weeks of the First World War, it did not go on general release until the following July when it premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Günther. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.