The night of the great flood

Movie
Original title	The night of the great flood
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2005
length	89 minutes
Rod
Director	Raymond Ley
script	Raymond Ley
production	Ulrich Lenze
music	Hans-Peter Ströer
camera	Martin Gressmann
cut	Tina Friday
occupation
Ulrich Tukur : Helmut Schmidt Christiane Paul : Gerda Brandt Florian Lukas : Horst Sahm Tom Jahn : Konrad Langer Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey : Heinrich Brandt Sabine Urig : Martha Langer Hannah Schröder : Anita Sahm Larissa Hartmann : Christina Langer Jacob Weigert : Helmut Schöttner Walter Gontermann : Martin Leddin

The Night of the Great Flood is a German television film produced for NDR in 2005, which depicts the events of the storm surge in Hamburg in 1962 as a docu-drama .

action

Using the Brandt and Langer families, the film depicts the fate of the residents of Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg on the night of February 16-17, 1962, when dikes broke in Hamburg as a result of the 1962 storm surge and flooded almost a fifth of the city's area. The hopes of the Hamburgers concerned rest on the police and interior senator Helmut Schmidt , who heads the crisis team . The plot of the film is supplemented by interviews with the eyewitnesses depicted (including Helmut Schmidt, Maximilian Alber and Gerda Brandt).

production

The production company Cinecentrum Hamburg shot in March and April 2005 with 50 actors and 600 extras in Hamburg and in Lübeck-Schlutup, among others . The effects were realized by flooding the scenery, but also by computer animation. In order to realistically depict dike breaches, models were built that were placed under extreme water pressure.

publication

The premiere was at the Hamburg Film Festival on September 26, 2005, the first broadcast was on October 28, 2005 on arte . A DVD was also released containing an interview with Helmut Schmidt and a making-of as bonus material.

reception

"Disaster drama, close to reality."

- TV movie

Awards

• TV Producer Award 2005, Hamburg Film Festival
• German Camera Prize 2006 for Martin Gressmann
• In 2006 the film was awarded the German Television Prize for Best Documentation .

Web links

• The night of the great flood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The night of the great flood at filmportal.de
• The night of the great flood at Cinecentrum
• The night of the great flood at Nordmedia
• Detailed film description ( memento from July 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on arte.tv

Individual evidence

1. ^ The night of the great flood at crew united . Retrieved September 2, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The night of the great flood. Arte , October 28, 2005, archived from the original on July 25, 2012 ; Retrieved February 3, 2012 . 
3. ↑ The night of the great flood. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 2, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Information from the product descriptions of various online shops and the database of the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry
5. ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 04/12, p. 95.
6. ↑ "The Night of the Great Flood" awarded at the Hamburg Film Festival. In: schwaebische.de. Schwäbischer Verlag, September 30, 2005, accessed on September 2, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Martin Gressmann. In: deutscher-kamerapreis.de. German Camera Prize Cologne e. V., accessed on September 2, 2018 . 
8. ↑ "The Night of the Great Flood" wins the 2006 German Television Prize. Nordmedia, September 24, 2009, accessed on November 20, 2013 .