The Titanic Myth - Munich remembered even 100 years later

The Titanic Myth - in Munich, he also lives in 100 years aufAm sank the luxury liner Titanic 04.15.1912 in the depths of the North Atlantic after the ship was to be unsinkable, collided with an iceberg. Since then, haunted by the sinking of the Titanic through the collective consciousness and fired to be the imagination of journalists, novelists and filmmakers. The myth lives on. In Munich there are several ways this April to deal with films about Titanic. Firstly, the Munich Film Museum presents a series of works from the depths of film history, reminiscent of the disaster. On the other hand runs from today James Cameron's 11-times Oscar-winning blockbuster "Titanic" in the revised version of 3D in theaters.

In the film, Ernst Museum Schreckenberg is on 12.04. by 19 clock in his talk "... and again it goes!" with many film examples of the various known and lesser-known films to Titanic. "Atlantis" (1913) is a Danish silent film - one of the first full-length feature films at all - in which a large ocean liner sinks in the Atlantic. (13.04. At 18:30 clock). "Titanic - In Night and Ice" (1912) presents the misfortune soon after it happened, according to the Grüpelsee near Berlin, in "The sinking of the Lusitania" (1918), the sinking of a Passagierschifffs by a German U-boat represented as a cartoon.

Also, Alexander Kluge has dealt repeatedly with the issue. In "The Sinking of the Titanic" (2003), he follows the epic in 33 cantos by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. As a premiere at the Film Museum his short film "steamer broke" to see who - inspired by the misfortune of the Costa Concordia - Helge Schneider in four roles as a ship captain, naval writer, naval judge and cave diver. The end of the weekend is the classic "A Night To Remember" (1958) by Roy Ward Baker, who is considered the definintive film of the substance. It is based on the unsurpassed to this day documentary presentation by Walter Lord and strives to programmatically authenticity. Where James Cameron stages the great melodrama, Baker shows how it could have been real. (15.04. At 18:30 clock).

Those who would also like to look at a melodramatic film version, this can be done today as initially mentioned, in many cinemas in Munich, after exactly 15 years now since James Cameron's masterpiece returns from the sinking of the Titanic back to the movies. Using advanced 3D technology, the creators managed the breathtaking battle for survival will be even more intense and the focus-standing love story wins a new dimension - Leo and Kate once again within reach.