Voyage of the damned [videorecording].
In 1939, 937 Jewish Germans were offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba. They departed Hamburg in high spirits, looking forward to their new life. However, after being denied access to Cuba, will the refugees find a new home or be forced to head back to Europe? Based on a true story.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodiscs (ca. 160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Widescreen ed.
- Publisher: [UNITED STATES] : Shout! Factory, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | 09/24/2013 DVD |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director, Stuart Rosenberg. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Orson Welles, Jonathan Pryce, Lynne Frederick, Lee Grant, Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker. |
Target Audience Note: | OFRB rating: PG. |
Language Note: | English audio. |
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Subject: | War. |
Genre: | War. |
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"In 1939, 937 Jewish Germans were offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba. They departed Hamburg in high spirits, looking forward to their new life. However, after being denied access to Cuba, will the refugees find a new home, or be forced to head back to Europe? Based on a true story. Director: Stuart Rosenberg (Cool Hand Luke). Stars: Faye Dunaway (Chinatown, Little Big Man, Bonnie and Clyde), Orson Wells (Citizen Cane, Othello), Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), Lee Grant (Mulholland Dr., In the Heat of the Night) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Time After Time). Nominated for 3 Oscars and won a Golden Globe." - Baker & Taylor
After being offered safe haven in Cuba in 1939, 937 German Jews depart Hamburg hopefully only to be denied entrance into Cuba and forced to turn back to Europe. - Universal Studios Home Entert.
A German captain returns with a ship of doomed Jewish refugees rejected by Cuba as a Nazi propaganda stunt.