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Scapa Flow (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Scapa Flow' is a 1930 German drama film directed by Leo Lasko and starring Otto Gebhr, Claire Rommer and Claus Clausen. It is set around the Wilhelmshaven Mutiny and the Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow at the close of the First World War.Kester p.172-173 In Weimar Germany the scuttling of the fleet in defiance of the victorious Allies had come to be seen as a popular patriotic act. The inclusion of the Mutiny, however, was more controversial as it highlighted the political divisions which continued to exist. The film was praised by the right wing press, and comparisons were made to the Russian film 'Battleship Potemkin'.Kester p.175 The film was partly inspired by the 1918 play 'Seeschalt' by Reinhardt Goering.Kester p.175
Cast
* Otto Gebhr
* Claus Clausen
* Claire Rommer
* Erna Morena
* Aribert Mog
* Arthur Duarte
* Carl Balhaus
* Heinz Klockow
References
Bibliography
* Kester, Bernadette. 'Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933)'. Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
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