Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean

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Movie
German title Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean
Original title The Spirit of St. Louis
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1957
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Billy Wilder
script Charles Lederer ,
Wendell Mayes ,
Billy Wilder
production Leland Hayward / Warner Bros.
music Franz Waxman
camera Robert Burks ,
J. Peverell Marley
cut Arthur P. Schmidt
occupation
synchronization

Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean (Original title: The Spirit of St. Louis ) is an American film by Billy Wilder from 1957. The film is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Charles A. Lindbergh .

action

The film describes the adventure of the first solo crossing of the Atlantic from New York to Paris without a stopover by the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh . The action begins on May 20, 1927, the evening before the start. In retrospect, Lindbergh reflects on his previous flying career as a farm pilot and army pilot, as a flight instructor and mail pilot, and on the difficulties involved in building and financing his airplane for the adventure flight across the Atlantic. Finally, after a difficult start, he takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island and is from then on for many hours all alone in the tiny aircraft cabin of the " Spirit of St. Louis ". Again and again he has to think about important events in his life in solitude. Finally he discovers a fly in the cockpit, the only living being on board with him, and begins to talk to her. On the way he eventually falls asleep and loses his bearings. The machine is icing up and is about to crash. Lindbergh is not sure where he is now and then. Completely exhausted, he finally ends up in Le Bourget near Paris , where he is frenetically celebrated by a huge crowd.

additional

The film became a commercial failure at the time. James Stewart, who portrays Lindberg at the age of 25, was in his late 40s when the film was made.

German dubbed version

The German version was created in 1957 at Riva-Synchron in Munich.

role actor Voice actor
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh James Stewart Peter Pasetti
Bud Gurney Murray Hamilton Niels Clausnitzer
Benjamin Frank Mahoney Barlett Robinson Wolf Ackva
Father Hussman Marc Connelly Walter Holten
Donald Hall Arthur Space Christian Marshal
Louie Jack Daly Erich Ebert
Harry Knight Robert Cornthwaite Klaus Havenstein
Harold Bixby David McMahon : Wolfgang Buettner
Earl Thompson James O'Rear Leo Bardischewski
OW Schultz Charles Watts Ernst Constantine
Captain Carleton Young John Pauls-Harding

Awards

The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1958 for Best Visual Effects . Louis Lichtenfield was responsible for the special effects.

criticism

“Although the film offers passages of great adventurous tension, it is often too detailed and loving to detail and has some lengths due to the inevitable acting solo effort of the very good James Stewart. Billy Wilder's ingenuity when it comes to staging the film, which literally plays over long stretches in the tiny cockpit of the machine, is astonishing in the extra-wide scope format. "

"The external and internal drama of the first flight over the ocean is impressively reflected in the film, which is recommended for ages 10 and up."

literature

  • Charles A. Lindbergh: My flight over the ocean (OT: The Spirit of St. Louis ). S. Fischer, Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1956
  • Charles A. Lindbergh: We two - with the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic , with a foreword by Reeve Lindbergh, MavenPress Verlag, Flensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-941719-05-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean in the German synchronous file , accessed on March 10, 2018
  2. Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean in Arne Kauls' synchronous database, accessed on May 27, 2019
  3. Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 20, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. Munich, Review No. 345/1957