Titanic - actors, characters and roles

All actors and their roles in the film "Titanic"

Titanic (1943)

Timing: 1:25 (85 min)

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Actors and characters

Character Sigrid Olinsky

Hans Nielsen

Character Offizier Petersen

Character Gloria

Karl Schönböck

Character John Jacob Astor

Character Kapitän Edward J. Smith

Franz Schafheitlin

Character Hunderson

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Character Sir Joseph Bruce Ismay

Character Jan

The film was commissioned by the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels, who wanted to demonstrate the incompetence of Great Britain.
The film's director, Herbert Zelpin, was extremely dissatisfied with the script and voiced harsh criticism of the film's creators in particular and the fascist regime in general. On July 31, 1942, Zelpin was arrested by the Gestapo, and on August 1, he hanged himself in his own cell. Whether this was suicide or murder remains unknown to this day. Another director completed the film. After the war, the film was banned and was not shown until the mid-1950s.
Most of the film was shot in the German-occupied Polish port of Gdynia, on the Baltic Sea coast. The passenger liner SS Cap Arcona served as the Titanic. On May 3, 1945, after a raid by the Royal Air Force, the ship also sank. The losses on the liner were more than three times the number of victims on the actual Titanic.
Walter Zerlett-Olfenius, his close friend and co-writer, denounced the film's director to the Gestapo.
In 1943, the film was shown only in certain European cities occupied by the Germans, such as Paris and Prague, but was banned by Joseph Goebbels from release in Germany for moral reasons. Shortly after the war, the film was shown in all countries of the Eastern Bloc as a trophy film, including in Russian. In Germany itself, the fully restored film was released on DVD for the first time, uncensored, only in 2005.

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