Miracle of Flight (1935 film) explained

Miracle of Flight
Director:Heinz Paul
Producer:Willy Clever
Conny Carstennsen
Willy Laschinsky
Starring:Ernst Udet
Jürgen Ohlsen
Käthe Haack
Editing:Paul May
Studio:Terra Film
Distributor:Terra Film
Runtime:79 minutes
Country:Germany
Language:German

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.

Synopsis

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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Notes and References

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