Titanic (1943 film)

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Titanic is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, depicting the catastrophic sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. This was the third German language dramatization of the event, following a silent film released in 1912 just four months after the sinking and the British produced German film Atlantik released in 1929. The film was conceived by head Tobis story editor Harald Bratt, as a propaganda vehicle depicting British plutocracy being responsible for the disaster, with the addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer, Petersen, as the moral focus of the film. The original director, Herbert Selpin, was arrested during production after making disparaging comments about the German army and the war in the east. He was found hanged in prison, and the film was completed by Werner Klingler, who was not credited. Although the film had a brief theatrical run in parts of German-occupied Europe starting in November 1943, it was not shown...

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