The lightship (2008)

TV movie
Original title	The lightship
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2008
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Florian Gärtner
script	Lothar Kurzawa
production	Markus Trebitsch
music	Jörg Lemberg
camera	Achim Poulheim
cut	Regina Bärtschi
occupation
	Jan Fedder : Johann Freytag (captain); Axel Milberg : Caspary (leader of the three crooks); Tobias Schenke : Fred Freytag (son of the captain); Christianasche : Rethorn (1st officer, representative of the captain); Margarita Broich : Inga (employee of the country radio station and partner of the captain); Beate Lehmann : Employee of the land radio station; Henning Peker : Gombert (sailor); Alexander Simon : Zumpe (sailor); Werner Wölbern : Eddie (gangster); Jörg Ratjen : Eugen (gangster); Alexander Grünberg : Ole (sailor); Matthias Buss : Trittel (ship's cook);

The lightship is a film adaptation by NDR of the story of the same name by the German writer Siegfried Lenz from 2008.

action

First a member of the crew dies, later one of the gangsters.

The film ends with the captain giving a hidden hint to the shore station during one of the daily radio reports about the weather in order to request the water police . The crew is forced by the gangsters to raise the anchor to go ashore with the lightship. When the anchor was caught, the captain faces the gangsters again, whereupon he is shot by a gangster. At that moment, the crew overwhelms both gangsters. Captain Johann Freytag dies as a result of the gunshot wound in the arms of his son Fred.

Filming

The shooting took place from July 20, 2007 to August 18, 2007 in Emden and Hamburg . The film was shot in 23 days. The team played in a confined space on board the former lightship " Borkumriff IV " in the middle of the North Sea off Emden. On two days the crew could not go on board because of the storm. Several scenes were created under great time pressure because of the constant alternation of ebb and flow . The script was written by Lothar Kurzawa and directed by Florian Gärtner . The film was first broadcast on September 27, 2008. "Das Feuerschiff" is a production by the Aspect Telefilm GmbH on behalf of the NDR, funded by the nordmedia Fonds GmbH in Lower Saxony and Bremen.

Web links

NDR press kit for the film "Das Feuerschiff" (PDF; 1.9 MB)
The lightship in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The lightship at crew united

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The lightship. NDR, accessed on January 1, 2020 .
^ Edgar S. Hasse: Film: NDR shows "Das Feuerschiff" by Siegfried Lenz . October 14, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed January 1, 2020]).
↑ The lightship. (PDF; 1.9 MB) January 2, 2020, accessed on January 2, 2020 .

[NDR.de_Das_Feuerschiff-1] The lightship. NDR, accessed on January 1, 2020 .

[2] Edgar S. Hasse: Film: NDR shows "Das Feuerschiff" by Siegfried Lenz . October 14, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed January 1, 2020]).

[3] The lightship. (PDF; 1.9 MB) January 2, 2020, accessed on January 2, 2020 .