Miracle of Flight (1935 film)

Miracle of Flight (German: Wunder des Fliegens) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Ernst Udet, Jürgen Ohlsen and Käthe Haack.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. It in the tradition of mountain films and was backed by the Ministry of Aviation whose chief Hermann Göring briefly appears in the film.[2] Jürgen Ohlsen, who plays the aspiring aviator in the film, had previously starred in another Nazi propaganda film Hitler Youth Quex in 1933.

Miracle of Flight
Directed byHeinz Paul
Written byPeter Francke
Heinz Paul
Hans Rameau
Produced byWilly Clever
Conny Carstennsen
Willy Laschinsky
StarringErnst Udet
Jürgen Ohlsen
Käthe Haack
CinematographyHans Schneeberger
Heinz von Jaworsky
Franz Weihmayr
Edited byPaul May
Music byGiuseppe Becce
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Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 14 May 1935 (1935-05-14)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Synopsis

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A boy whose aviator father was killed in the First World War, idolises the fighter pilot Ernst Udet. His ambitions to become a pilot himself are opposed by his mother because of her loss her husband. While on a training flight the boy is stranded on a mountainside and a rescue mission is flown by Udet to rescue him. Eventually his mother's objections are overcome to his future career.

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References

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  1. ^ Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 p.167
  2. ^ Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 p.167

Bibliography

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  • Hales, Barbara, Petrescu, Mihaela and Weinstein, Valerie. Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936. Boydell & Brewer, 2016.
  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1935. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.
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