The story of the german sailtraining ship pamir that sunk in a hurricane. Achtzig seeleute ertranken 1957 im atlantik, noch heute streiten experten. Kaspar heidelbachs twopart drama focuses on the 1957 sinking of the pamir, a german sailing ship, from the angle of three crew members. A clip from the film is on the website of the german navigation museum in german click on the pictures on the right. The sedov has been repainted to stand for the pamir. Finally, the captain yields to the shipping companys pressure and allows his own men to load the pamir with the barley as bulk cargo including even the deep tank, which is normally filled with ballast water. The german tv channel ard and polyphon have shot a tv movie in two parts of 90 minutes on.
So ist zu vermuten, dass einige besatzungsmitglieder noch im hurrikan ertrunken sind. Wie ublich wurde dieser film in video hd hohe auflosung fur kinoprojektion oder blurays mit dolbydigitalaudio gefilmt. The usual love story, the usual bad guy, the usual heroes. Boatship, hurricane, manmade, planetary, and transportation. The film stars bruno ganz, alexandra maria lara, corinna harfouch, ulrich matthes, juliane kohler, heino ferch, christian berkel, matthias habich, and thomas kretschmann. The plot is not historically correct, more fiction than facts. September 1957 untergegangene segelschulschiff pamir. Nov 17, 2006 like the bombing of dresden or the great flood of hamburg, the sinking of the pamir gives the background for a 3 hour german tv production. Erneut geht es in einer aufwandigen deutschen tvproduktion um eine katastrophe. Every day the ship has to stay anchored costs money.