Miracle of Flight (1935 film)

Miracle of Flight
Directed by	Heinz Paul
Written by	Peter Francke Heinz Paul Hans Rameau
Produced by	Willy Clever Conny Carstennsen Willy Laschinsky
Starring	Ernst Udet Jürgen Ohlsen Käthe Haack
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger Heinz von Jaworsky Franz Weihmayr
Edited by	Paul May
Music by	Giuseppe Becce
Production company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	14 May 1935 (1935-05-14)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Miracle of Flight (German: Wunder des Fliegens) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Ernst Udet, Jürgen Ohlsen and Käthe Haack. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. It in the tradition of mountain films and was backed by the Ministry of Aviation whose chief Hermann Göring briefly appears in the film. Jürgen Ohlsen, who plays the aspiring aviator in the film, had previously starred in another Nazi propaganda film Hitler Youth Quex in 1933.

Synopsis

A boy whose aviator father was killed in the First World War, idolises the fighter pilot Ernst Udet. His ambitions to become a pilot himself are opposed by his mother because of her loss her husband. While on a training flight the boy is stranded on a mountainside and a rescue mission is flown by Udet to rescue him. Eventually his mother's objections are overcome to his future career.

Cast

• Ernst Udet as Flieger Udet
• Jürgen Ohlsen as Heinz Muthesius
• Käthe Haack as Mutter Muthesius
• Hermann Göring as Cameo
• Cornelius Booth
• Leonie Duval
• Elfriede Sandner

Bibliography

• Hales, Barbara, Petrescu, Mihaela and Weinstein, Valerie. Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936. Boydell & Brewer, 2016.
• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1935. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
• Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

External links

• Miracle of Flight at IMDb