Morgenrot (film)

Morgenrot is a 1933 German submarine film set during World War I.

The film offered a heroization of death, with the captain explicitly stating that Germans may not know how to live, but they know how to die. In a central scene, the captain of the submarine offers to his men that he and the first officer will go down with the ship in order that they may escape they refuse on the grounds it will be all or none of them, and the captain glorifies the chance to die with such men, a theme that commonly appeared in Naziera films.The first officer, having learned that the woman he loves is in love with captain, not himself, and another sailor commit suicide to save the others a common way to resolve love triangles in Nazi films, where the heroic death saves the man from failure. ........

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