Atlantic odyssey

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Movie
German title Atlantic odyssey
Original title La dérive de l'Atlantic
Atlantic Drift (Int. Title)
Country of production France , Israel , Austria
original language French , English , Hebrew , German
Publishing year 2002
length 88 minutes
Age rating JMK 10
Rod
Director Michel Daeron
script Michel Daeron
production Knut Ogris ,
Lukas Stepanik
music Jacques Davidovici
camera George Diane
cut Eva Feigeles-Aimé
occupation
  • Hanna Haendel
  • Ernst Stern
  • Shlomo Haendel
  • Myriam Zamstag
  • Henry Wellisch
  • Yaffa Kessler
  • Baruch Or
  • Meir Feldman
  • Uri Miodowski
  • Harry Hargreaves
  • Peter Engler
  • Sabine Kranzelbinder - speaker
  • Franz Robert Wagner - speaker

Odyssey of the Atlantic (English. Title Atlantic drift ) is a documentary by Michel Daëron from the year 2002 . With re-shot scenes from the game, it documents the odyssey of a Jewish escape company initiated and approved by the Nazis, beginning in 1940 from Austria across the Danube and the Mediterranean to the then English-administered island of Mauritius with the steamship Atlantic . The original destination was the Mandate Palestine . The refugees were denied a stay in Palestine.

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The DDSG ships Helios, Melk, Uranus and Schönbrunn leave Vienna and Bratislava on or around September 3 with more than 4,000 refugees on board. The destination is the Black Sea to change to the seaworthy Atlantic, Pacific and Milos for the further voyage towards Palestine. The trip was supposed to take ten days. They reached Tulcea (Romania) on September 11, 1940 , and 1829 people were transferred to the Greek cargo ship Atlantic . The trip on the Atlantic takes three months. Initially, the Atlantic suffered a storm and had to call at the Bulgarian port of Varna for repair work . There was another longer stay in the port of Heraklion on Crete .

It was not until November 23 that the ship was able to leave Cyprus with the British military as an escort on board . The MS Patria , a former French luxury steamer that the British had requisitioned, awaited those arriving in the Bay of Haifa . The passengers of the two ships Milos and Pacific had already been brought there. There was a bomb attack on board the MS Patria , possibly to prevent its departure, in which and in the subsequent panic several hundred people died. The ship sank. The British Colonial Office finally deported the Atlantic refugees who had been apprehended near Limassol from the coast of Palestine to Mauritius and imprisoned them there for five years in a former Napoleonic prison in the Beau Bassin a few kilometers south of Port Louis .

At the time of the film production, there were still over 100 survivors of this trip and the imprisonment there, some of whom were included. In the film, the eyewitnesses report on the living conditions, illnesses, hunger and death on this escape from Hitler. The framework story is the journey of a survivor with her adult son to the father's grave in Mauritius.

Awards

  • The film was invited to 23 festivals and was shown in Toronto, Montreal, London, São Paulo, Ft. Lauderdale, presented at the forum of the Berlinale 2002, the FIPA Biarritz and the Diagonale Graz.

See also

literature

  • Ronald Friedmann: Exile on Mauritius 1940 to 1945. The fate of emigrated Jews. Report of a “democratic” deportation . edition ost, 1998, 192 pp. ISBN 3-932180-29-1 (German).
  • The Mauritian Shekel: The Story of Jewish Detainees in Mauritius, 1940–1945. Mauritius, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 272 ​​pp. ISBN 0-7425-0855-2 (English).
  • Nathacha Appanah: The last brother . Roman, Albrecht Knaus, Munich 2009; ISBN 978-3-8135-0321-0 . (Mauritius: A 10-year-old boy befriends a Jewish peer who escaped from prison in a cyclone and hides him in his abusive father's house. - Review ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for odyssey of the Atlantic . Youth Media Commission .