A German NATO envoy must raise a ship he helped sink — full of dead children.
At the beginning of the 1960s, a German turns up on behalf of the NATO in the British village of Rocksmouth. NATO wants to establish a naval base in Rocksmouth, but first, the German envoy has to salvage an old ship wreck. In 1942, the "Princess of India" was supposed to bring children to safety in Canada but was sunk by a German submarine at departure. 58 people were killed, most of them children.
Cinematography
Fog-choked Baltic coast shot like a funeral.
Production
Haunting wreck footage, allegedly real salvage stock.
Director
Joachim Hasler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA's rare Cold War thriller sympathetic to NATO, made possible by the 'Princess of India' being a Nazi military target, not Allied.
Director Hasler later defected West in 1969; this film's ambiguous politics may explain why both sides tolerated him.
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