Germans sunk a British ship, then they save the survivors. The
Anglo-German World War II drama "Laconia" is to be a kind of Euro-work
of reconciliation - and fails on small-mindedness.
Only in August, Don Crossley failed with his protest against the
municipal authorities of South Kirkby, Yorkshire, who wants to rename
a street after bypassing the German sister city Sprockhövel. The
88-year-old war veteran Crossley's and has earned his medals because
he had his time as a radio operator there when the Royal Air Force
bombed the Ruhr area and possibly also Sprockhövel. "We did not fight
in our Lancaster, and won the war, only to rename a street in
Yorkshire after a German city."
Hilda (Franka Potente) and Thomas Mortimer (Andrew Buchan) aboard the
Laconia - they tried to flee from the Third Reich, he is a good
officer.
The Second World War is long over, but all will pass away, not the
past. A rusty chunks of metal on dips, a submarine, a hand sewn with
coarse stitches to a sack, which disappears a face, a flag is over it
drawn a swastika in the middle, and the crew sings the dead to escort
a tight "I had a comrade. " As a final salute to the captain of the
dead, about the swastika. The dead comrade sinks into the sea, the
submarine war continues. Laconia, starts a war movie that wants to be
but no more.
It is the late summer of 1942. Hitler's armies occupied nearly the
whole of continental Europe. London is bombed and the Germans in North
Africa, together with the Italians lead the war against the English.
In Suez, runs from the British troop ship RMS Laconia, which carries
nearly 1,800 Italian prisoners of war, to bring them to England. The
journey is just to the south, around the Cape of Good Hope. The ride
is quiet until the ship is torpedoed off the West African coast by a
German submarine and sunk.
Most of the POWs like drowning, but then decides the submarine captain
Werner Hartenstein, saving many more survivors. A part may, with the
U-boat, a few hundred other castaways gather in lifeboats after the
German sailors, the enemy suddenly helpful. Although the captain can
send out distress signals, the survivors are being bombed by an
American airplane. Part of the Laconia's passengers will still escaped
with his life.
This true story is not only almost completely unknown in Germany, it
knows how the British Ambassador Simon McDonald assured, even in the
United Kingdom, almost no one. They provide the material for a great
tragedy that is charged in the German-British co-production with the
task of Laconia, however, to convey also the understanding between the
once warring states. Of Her Majesty's Ambassador in Germany is pleased
to announce that with the cliched depiction of the Germans in the film
is finally over and here is how this co-production opportunities for a
differentiated representation.
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