What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Aug 14, 2020 20:55:58 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 14, 2020 20:55:58 GMT
The Star of Africa aka Der Stern von Afrika 1957 directed by Alfred Weideman. A bio about luftwaffe ace Joachim Marseilles, and as bio movies goes some adjustments to appeal to wider audiences has to be made, just like Hollywood did.
After the mid 1950's West Germany begun to make movies about the days they came under Nazi rule.
Marseilles was like a restless soul, didn't care about rules (think Tom Cruise in Top Gun). Always in trouble with authorities. Liked American Jazz Music. He also had the looks of a great Arian, favoured by the Nazis.
With the Luftfaffe African korps he is said to have shot down 150 enemy airplanes, until he was killed in a freak parachute accident.
It's interesting to see a movie about the other side, they didn't fight because they supported the Nazis, they were just enemies, and I though this was a good watch, something I didn't care much about is that subtitles were awful (some people always complain), but that was nothing I cared about.
The real Joachim Marseilles on the left, the black man on the right was "Mathias", who was a South African RAF POW, and since he was black could't be mixed with other clean white prisoners. He became a sort of wingman/servant to Marseilles, and they had a special bond (and marginally featured in the movie), he was freed in in 1944 by the British, and never heard of again. Until a monument was built for the German Afrika Korps in 1985, survivors thought it would't have complete wihtout "Mathias", and once again in 1989, then he disappeared again
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After the mid 1950's West Germany begun to make movies about the days they came under Nazi rule.
Marseilles was like a restless soul, didn't care about rules (think Tom Cruise in Top Gun). Always in trouble with authorities. Liked American Jazz Music. He also had the looks of a great Arian, favoured by the Nazis.
With the Luftfaffe African korps he is said to have shot down 150 enemy airplanes, until he was killed in a freak parachute accident.
It's interesting to see a movie about the other side, they didn't fight because they supported the Nazis, they were just enemies, and I though this was a good watch, something I didn't care much about is that subtitles were awful (some people always complain), but that was nothing I cared about.
The real Joachim Marseilles on the left, the black man on the right was "Mathias", who was a South African RAF POW, and since he was black could't be mixed with other clean white prisoners. He became a sort of wingman/servant to Marseilles, and they had a special bond (and marginally featured in the movie), he was freed in in 1944 by the British, and never heard of again. Until a monument was built for the German Afrika Korps in 1985, survivors thought it would't have complete wihtout "Mathias", and once again in 1989, then he disappeared again
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