Atlantik (1929)

Original title

Atlantic

Directed by

Ewald André Dupont

Genre

drama film, disaster film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This German-language drama portrays the sinking of a large passenger ship in the North Atlantic. The story follows passengers and crew as they confront the disaster.

tensemelancholicbleakslow-pacedstarkdramaticsomberhistorical

What happens

Atlantic is a 1929 British-made German language drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Fritz Kortner, Elsa Wagner and Heinrich Schroth. The film is a German language version of the 1929 film Atlantic made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures. Following the introduction of sound films, leading film companies attempted to cater to different markets by producing multiple-language versions of their films. Atlantic was released in four versions: English, French, German and silent, for cinemas not yet converted to the new format. The German version was filmed at the same time as the British version, with each scene first being filmed in English for the British version, then the same scene being filmed in German by a German cast, using the same sets. The film was the first fully talking film to be released in Germany, where it was a major hit. It is based on the 1929 play The Berg by Ernest Raymond which itself was based on the Titanic disaster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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