Miracle of Flight (1935 film)

{{Short description|1935 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Miracle of Flight

| image =File:Miracle of Flight (1935 film).jpg

| caption =

| director = Heinz Paul

| producer = Willy Clever
Conny Carstennsen
Willy Laschinsky

| based_on =

| writer = Peter Francke
Heinz Paul
Hans Rameau

| narrator =

| starring = Ernst Udet
Jürgen Ohlsen
Käthe Haack

| music = Giuseppe Becce

| cinematography = Hans Schneeberger
Heinz von Jaworsky
Franz Weihmayr

| editing = Paul May

| studio = Terra Film

| distributor = Terra Film

| released ={{Film date|1935|05|14|df=yes}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = Germany

| language = German

| budget =

| gross =

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Miracle of Flight (German: Wunder des Fliegens) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Ernst Udet, Jürgen Ohlsen and Käthe Haack.Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 p.167 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. It was in the tradition of mountain films and was backed by the Ministry of Aviation whose chief Hermann Göring briefly appears in the film.Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 p.167 Jürgen Ohlsen, who plays the aspiring aviator in the film, had previously starred in another Nazi propaganda film Hitler Youth Quex in 1933.

Synopsis

A boy whose aviator father was killed in the First World War, idolises the fighter pilot Ernst Udet. His ambitions to become a pilot himself are opposed by his mother because of the loss of her husband. While on a training flight the boy is stranded on a mountainside and a rescue mission is flown by Udet to rescue him. His mother's objections to his future career are eventually overcome.

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Bibliography

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  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1935. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
  • Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.