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Hindenburg (2011)
 
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Director:
Philipp
Kadelbach |
INTERNATIONAL TITLE
Hindenburg: The Last Flight |
COUNTRY
Germany/Austria |
GENRE
Comedy/Drama |
RUNNING
TIME
180 minutes |
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Producer:
Nico Hofmann
Sascha Mürl
Jürgen Schuster
Sasha Schwingel |
Screenwriter:
Johannes W. Betz
Philip LaZebnik
Martin Pristl |
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Cast includes:
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CHARACTER |
ACTOR/ACTRESS |
RATING |
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Merten Kröger |
Maximilian Simonischek |
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Jennifer van Zandt |
Lauren Lee Smith |
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Edward van Zandt |
Stacy Keach |
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Helen van Zandt |
Greta Scacchi |
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Alfred Sauter |
Hinnerk Schönemann |
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Max Kaufmann |
Justus von Dohnányi |
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Gilles Broca |
Hannes Jaenicke |
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Anna Kerner |
Christiane Paul |
Review
This
would-be epic suffers from all the flaws that the filmmakers should
have feared going into the project: the (largely) German actors
cannot quite overcome the transatlantic journey (so to speak), the
production values can't justify the magnitude of the scenes, and the
script feels like an unsuccessful rekindling of old-fashioned
B-movie melodrama, arguably for no other purpose than to fill the
three hours needed to make this into a TV mini-series. Subsequently
released on home media in various formats, it's hard to believe it
would be possible to edit this to greatness. So Robert Wise's
1975
version remains the best filmatization of the famous
zeppelin disaster.
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