Titanic (1943 film)

Titanic is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA. Despite the fact that a British company had already released a Germanlanguage film about the RMSTitanic, 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 show that British and American capitalism was responsible for the disaster, The addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer to the ships crew was intended to demonstrate the superior bravery and selflessness of German men as compared to the British officers.

A proclamation to the stockholders of the White Star Line declares the value of their stock is falling. The president of the Line, J. Bruce Ismay E.F. Frbringer, promises to reveal a secret during the maiden voyage of the lines new RMSTitanic that will change that. He alone knows she can break the speed record and receive the Blue Riband, and he believes this will raise the stocks value. Ismay and the board of the White Star Line plan to manipulate the stock by selling short their own stock in order to buy it back at a lower price just before the news about the ships record speed is revealed to the press.On Titanic s maiden voyage in 1912, First Officer Peterson Hans Nielsen, who is German, begs the ships rich, snobbish and sleazy owners to slow the ship down, but they refuse, and Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks. The passengers in First Class act like cowards, while Peterson, his recently impoverished Russian aristocrat exlover Sigrid Olinsky Sybille Schmitz, and other German passengers in steerage behave bravely and with kindness. Peterson manages to rescue many passengers, convince Sigrid to get into a lifeboat, and saves a young girl, who was obviously left to die in her cabin by an uncaring, callous British mother. In the ships final death throes, Peterson leaps from the deck with the little girl still in his arms, and is pulled aboard Sigrids lifeboat the occupants watch in horror as Titanic plunges beneath the waves. ........

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