Titanic (1943)
A gripping retelling of Titanic's ill-fated voyage. Perfect for history buffs and drama enthusiasts; avoid if you dislike tragic tales.
Genres: Drama, History
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Titanic(1943)
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As the Titanic sets sail in 1912, financial pressure and stock-market scheming push its leaders toward risky decisions meant to impress wealthy passengers and calm investors. Onboard, a principled officer clashes with complacent superiors, while personal dramas unfold as the voyage heads toward a looming disaster.
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Pros: impressive sets and props; tense disaster moments; brisk, watchable pace | Cons: heavy-handed propaganda; exaggerated character portrayals; loose historical accuracy
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You may enjoy this if you’re curious about an older, lavish Titanic retelling with strong tension after the crisis and a pointed anti-wealth angle; Not for you if you want a neutral, fact-focused account like A Night to Remember.
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The Nazi propaganda film _Titanic_ is incredibly bizarre yet imminently fascinating. Aside from a few names, the ship, and the iceberg, there’s no resemblance to the real people and events. In this version greedy president of the White Star Line Bruce Ismay pushes the _Titanic_’s speed in order to set a new world record in hopes of raising the company’s stock price and winning a prestigious Blue Riband; meanwhile the ship's only German officer, Petersen, attempts to warn passengers and crew that an impending disaster awaits if the ship isn’t slowed down before they reach the ice fields that lie ahead. The film is appalling on so many levels, yet it’s rather interesting to see how things have been distorted to fit the anti-British narrative. An obscene piece of propaganda, _Titanic_ failed spectacularly (forgotten almost immediately after it was released) and sank into obscurity.
A propaganda film which shows that British and American capitalism was responsible for the disaster. Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point.
The Nazi propaganda film Titanic is incredibly bizarre yet imminently fascinating. Aside from a few names, the ship, and the iceberg, there’s no resemblance to the real people and events. In this version greedy president of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, pushes the Titanic’s speed in order to set a new world record in hopes of raising the company’s stock price and winning a prestigious Blue Ribbon; meanwhile the ship''s only German officer, Petersen, attempts to warn passengers and crew that an impending disaster awaits if the ship isn’t slowed down before they reach the ice fields that lie ahead. The film is appalling on so many levels, yet it’s rather interesting to see how things have been distorted to fit the anti-British narrative. An obscene piece of propaganda, Titanic failed spectacularly (forgotten almost immediately after it was released) and sank into obscurity.
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Right from the beginning, it's quite hard to take this too seriously. A group of investors gather only to realise that the White Star Line is quite literally running on fumes. Their stock is falling through the floor due to the extravagances of the spend on the RMS Titanic and it's chairman "Ismay" (Ernest Fritz Fürbringer) decides that they will have to find the ship's wealthiest clients and try to coax them into reversing this decline. Then to sea and the film becomes a standard series of maritime melodramas with loads of treachery, adultery and for many the impending iceberg may well have been welcome! The concluding scenes are actually quite tensely handled by Herbert Selpin but the exaggerated characterisations and clearly expressed anti-British sentiment, as well as scant attention to the known facts - even in 1943 - render the thing little better than a piece of clumsy propaganda that played a bit fast and loose with some real historical figures. The only thing that was really missing was an assertion that the iceberg was just a craftily disguised U-boat! It's worth a watch, though - at times the philosophies of venality and cowardice from some aboard might be nearer the mark than we'd care to admit.
