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Hindenburg (2011 film)

*Hindenburg*
Hindenburg
Genre	Disaster; Thriller
Written by	Jeff Fazio
Directed by	David Jackson; Dick Lowry
Theme music composer	Lee Holdridge
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	English
Production
Running time	180 minutes
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	February 6 –; 7, 2011

Hindenburg is a two-part television film of director Philipp Kadelbach from 2011. The script was written by Johannes W. Betz . The film is based on the crash of the airship Hindenburg in 1937, the plot of the film is largely fictitious. The first broadcast took place on 6 and 7 February 2011 on RTL and on ORF 2 . The DVD was released on February 11, 2011.

Plot

The fictive plot of the two-parter shows, in addition to the primary action, which revolves around a bomb on board the Hindenburg, several other storylines.

The airship designer Merten Kroeger sees Jennifer van Zandt at a reception, in which he has fallen in love since he was rescued by her after his crash with a school glider in a pond from the water and revived. Jennifer is the daughter of an American chemical producer who wants to supply the Zeppelin shipping company with helium .

Kröger learns shortly before the departure of the Hindenburg from an on-board bomb. After a serious argument with Fritz Rittenberg, the admirer of Jennifer and shareholder IG Farben , he is under suspicion of murder and must go unrecognized on board. He's trying to figure out what to do with the assassination Jennifer is having with her mother on board.

Kröger is discovered, interrogated and tortured in the Hindenburg . Both the on-board manager of the Zeppelin shipping company and two Gestapo officers also on board doubt Kröger's history; rather, it is believed that he wants to smuggle important documents out of the country. These papers, containing attack plans of the German Wehrmacht , were, as it turns out, by the radio operatorSchmidt the Hindenburg smuggled on board. Through detective work by his friend Alfred Sauter, who serves as the first officer at the Hindenburg, and Jennifers evidence of the bomb are found. The search for the bomb begins. Due to a weather-related delay of the Hindenburg, there is a danger that a set to the time after landing time fuze could detonate the bomb in the air.

As it turns out, the purpose of the assassination attempt is to have the Hindenburg explode after landing in the US, in order to achieve a lifting of the US embargo on Germany and thus to allow the delivery of tetraethyl lead. The so improved aviation fuel should Polish campaign be possible.

Other storylines are concerned u. a. with the variety artist Gilles Broca. This initially comes under suspicion of being the bomber, as he may enter the hold of the Hindenburg to supply his accompanying German shepherd dog as the only passenger. Another story tells the story of the Jewish Kerner family, who secretly wants to emigrate with their assets. Ms. Kerner is pressed during the journey by the accompanying German Air Force officer Karl Erdmann.

During a sharp turning maneuver in Lakehurst , a tensioning rope breaks and strikes a crack in one of the carrier gas cells . Although Kröger manages to defuse the bomb at the last minute, but due to the electrostatic discharge of Zeppelin (in the form of Elms fire ) in conjunction with the escaping hydrogen , it finally comes to ignite the gas; the Zeppelin burns down and tears u. a. Sauter, Jennifer's mother, Erdmann and the male members of the Kerner family to their deaths. Kröger and Jennifer survive, but they still have to deal with backers of the bomb at the end.

Reception

Ratings

The quotas of the first part on 6 February 2011 were very satisfactory for RTL. 7.84 million viewers watched the first part of the RTL event movie, giving the private channel a 20.9 percent market share. The audience reached 4.43 million viewers and a rate of 27.7 percent. [6] In ORF 2 815,000 viewers saw (26 percent national market share) the first part and the second part 752,000. On average, there were 783,500 spectators in the two parts.

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