U 9 ​​Weddigen

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Movie
Original title U 9 ​​Weddigen
Country of production German Empire
original language German
Publishing year 1927
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Heinz Paul
script Willy Rath
production Hanns Otto for Johannisthaler film companies
camera Willy Goldberger
occupation

U 9 ​​Weddigen is a German silent film war drama from 1927 by Heinz Paul about the German submarine warfare in the First World War. Carl de Vogt as U 9- Kaleu Otto Weddigen and Ernst Hofmann and Gerd Briese as brothers play the main roles.

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Gerhard and Fritz von Dietrichsen are two brothers and both serve in the German Navy. When England became an enemy of the Germans in 1914, Fritz became a watch officer on the U 9 of submarine captain Otto Weddigen, while Gerhard was assigned to a torpedo boat as first officer. With the sinking of three large British battlecruisers, the Cressy, the Hogue and the Aboukir, the U 9 can quickly achieve its first major successes against the British. Gerhard is allowed to take a special leave for a short time and returns to Berlin. There he wants to ask his cousin Hilde, the daughter of his uncle, with whom he once grew up, for her hand. But he gets a nasty surprise. Even before the war broke out, Hilde gave in to Percy, Gerhard's English stepbrother from his mother's second marriage. A short time later, Fritz was assigned by the U 9 to the U 31, which was defeated in the battle on the Dogger Bank together with other German ships.

Gerhard, who has meanwhile also been ordered back to a ship, can contact Gerhard by means of a telephone buoy floating on the surface of the sea. Gerhard hears the last words of the dying brother, then the contact breaks off. In the meantime, Hilde has broken off her engagement to Percy, the Englishman who has become a German enemy, and is doing her patriotic service as a nurse. Percy fights on the English side and is wounded. His former fiancée, the nurse Hilde, looks after him generously. When Captain Weddigen is entrusted with a new assignment on the U 29, Gerhard immediately reports as his officer on watch. This time the great submarine hero of the First World War is less lucky: an enemy armored cruiser rams his submersible off Heligoland in March 1915 , and Weddigen sinks with the crew on the seabed. The Kaleu heroically walks off his boat one last time. He and his men are at home with their families with their final thoughts.

Production notes

U 9 ​​Weddigen , subtitle: A heroic fate from bygone days , was created in March and April 1927 in the Jofa studios, was censored on May 5, 1927 and was premiered on the same day. Due to its strong patriotic and nationalistic sentiments, the film was released for the youth. The film was 2,448 meters long, divided into six acts. The film received the rating "popular education".

Karl Machus designed the film structures, Franz Schroedter the ship models. Hermann Grund took over the production management.

The technical advice was provided by Kapitänleutnant a. D. Hermann Rohne, who had commanded the boat SM UC 20 in the Mediterranean during the war .

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