Das Luftschiff

DDR 1982/1983 Spielfilm

The inventor Franz Xaver Stannebein has constructed a propeller airship which is supposed to allow mankind to rise above its earthly hardships. He lets big business use him to build a runway in Spain - allegedly for his airship. When he realizes however that the runway is to serve the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War, he goes back to Germany and complains that he has been betrayed. He is declared insane and locked up in a psychiatric ward, where he becomes a victim of euthanasia. After the end of the war, his eleven-year-old grandson sets off with his aunt to find his grandfather.

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Duration:
3178 m, 117 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 17.03.1983, Berlin, International

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Das Luftschiff

Versions

Original

Duration:
3178 m, 117 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 17.03.1983, Berlin, International

Awards

Nationales Spielfilmfestival der DDR 1984
  • Beste Kamera (ex aequo >Fariaho<)