Titanic (1943)
November 10, 1943Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Sybille Schmitz
Sigrid Olinsky
Hans Nielsen
Offizier Petersen
Kirsten Heiberg
Gloria
Karl Schönböck
John Jacob Astor
Otto Wernicke
Kapitän Edward J. Smith
Franz Schafheitlin
Hunderson
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Sir Joseph Bruce Ismay
Sepp Rist
Jan
Theodor Loos
Hermann Brix
Claude Farell
Robert A. Dietrich
ProductionDesigner
Werner Klingler
Director
Willy Reiber
Producer
Friedl Behn-Grund
Director of Photography
Friedel Buckow
Editor
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Details.
Release DateNovember 10, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
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Titanic is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, depicting the catastrophic sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. This was the third German language dramatization of the event, following a silent film released in 1912 just four months after the sinking and the British produced German film Atlantik released in 1929.
The film was commissioned by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels with the intent of showing not only the superiority of German filmmaking, but also as a propaganda vehicle which would depict British and American capitalism as being responsible for the disaster. The addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer, Petersen, to the ship's crew was intended to demonstrate the superior bravery and selflessness of German men as compared to the British officers.
The film's original director, Herbert Selpin, was arrested during production after making disparaging comments about the German army and the war in the east. He was found hanged in prison, and the film was completed by Werner Klingler, who was not credited.
Although the film had a brief theatrical run in parts of German-occupied Europe starting in November 1943, it was not shown within Germany by order of Goebbels, who feared that it would weaken the German citizenry's morale instead of improving it, as heavy Allied bombing raids made a film depicting mass panic and death unappealing. Goebbels later banned the playing of the film entirely, and it did not have a second run.
The film was the first on the subject which was simply titled Titanic, and the first to combine various fictional characters and subplots with the true events of the sinking; both conventions went on to become a staple of Titanic films.