Frozen Flashes (film)

Die gefrorenen Blitze Frozen Lightning Englishlanguage title Frozen Flashes Frenchlanguage title Et lAngleterre sera dtruite, England Would Be Destroyed is a twopart 1967 EastGerman film. The plot revolves around the history of the resistance movement in Peenemnde during the Second World War and its attempt to sabotage the V2 program.

After an Allied bombing wreaks great damage in Peenemnde, the local resistance manages to smuggle V2 parts to Britain, where they would be analyzed by the Allies technical intelligence. The Allies decide that the genius of the rockets creator must be exploited by them. As the end of the war looms near, Peenemnde is abandoned. In Los Alamos, a new, deadlier weapon is being developed.The work on Die Gefrorene Blitze began already at 1964, and took three years to be completed. Writer Harry Thrk and director Jnos Veiczi conducted extensive research in four countries the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland. The script was mainly based on Dr. Julius Maders book Secrets from Huntsville the True Career of the Rockets Baron Werner von Braun. The producers deemed the film as one that continued the tradition of DEFAs classical antifascist pictures, focusing on the struggle of people from many different countries including a catholic priest from France, a character whose portrayal as positive was not common in East Germany to prevent the Nazis from developing longrange missiles. The title was derived from a common sobriquet for the V2 missiles Frozen Lightning. ........

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