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Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, with an all-star cast featuring Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Lynne Frederick and Malcolm McDowell.
Plot
Based on historic events, this dramatic film concerns the 1939 voyage of the German-flagged , which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realized this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers, who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in Nazi propaganda, and that Germany had never intended that they disembark in Cuba. Rather, they were to be set up as pariahs, to set an example before the world. As a Nazi official states in the film, when the whole world has refused to accept the Jews as refugees, no country can blame Germany for their fate.
Cast
- Anthony Higgins
- Ben Gazzara
- Bernard Hepton
- Bernard Kay
- Brian Gilbert
- Constantine Gregory
- David Daker
- David de Keyser
- Denholm Elliott
- Don Henderson
- Donald Houston
- Faye Dunaway
- Fernando Rey
- Frederick Jaeger
- Georgina Hale
- Günter Meisner
- Helmut Griem
- Ian Cullen
- Ina Skriver
- James Mason
- Janet Suzman
- Jonathan Pryce
- José Ferrer
- Julie Harris
- Katharine Ross
- Keith Barron
- Laura Gemser
- Lee Grant
- Leonard Rossiter
- Luther Adler
- Lynne Frederick
- Malcolm McDowell
- Maria Schell
- Marika Rivera
- Max von Sydow
- Michael Constantine
- Milo Sperber
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Orson Welles
- Oskar Werner
- Paul Koslo
- Philip Stone
- Sam Wanamaker
- Tom Laughlin
- Victor Spinetti
- Wendy Hiller
More details
| author | David Butler Steve Shagan |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Havana |
| director | Stuart Rosenberg |
| editor | Tom Priestley |
| events | The Holocaust Voyage of the Damned World War II |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | anti-semitism concentration camp florida hamburg havana cuba jew murder nazi nazi concentration camp nazi propaganda nazism outcast pariah refugee reject rescue set up united kingdom |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | Robert Fryer |
| productionCompany | ITC Entertainment |
| publisher | Embassy Pictures Rank Film Distributors |
| recordedAt | Barcelona |
| theme | propaganda |