Franz Xavier Stannebein, a young boy at the turn of the 20th century, wants to do nothing more than fly. He carries this dream through his years at an orphanage and into adulthood as a merchant in Spain. He eventually invests everything he has into building his own version of an airship. He later meets some industrialists in Germany who want to support his idea, and they ask him to build an airfield in Spain. When he sees the Nazis use the field during the Spanish Civil War, however, he feels betrayed and goes to Germany to protest. There he is thrown into an insane asylum in Leipzig. After WWII, his grandson and other survivors of the family searches for him, only to find the empty asylum... Based on the novel Das Luft-Schiff. Biografische Nachlasse zu den Fantasien meines Grossvaters (1974) by Fritz Rudolf Fries. The non-camera animation in the film was created by internationally known director Lutz Dammbeck.
The Airship
March 17, 1983
1
ratings
0
reviews
0
video reviews
Jörg Gudzuhn
Stannebein
Hermann Beyer
Kießling
Kurt Böwe
Psychologe
Gudrun Ritter
Polonia
Elisa Montés
N/A
Katrin Knappe
N/A
Johanna Schall
N/A
György Lencz
N/A
Jürgen Holtz
N/A
Arno Wyzniewski
N/A
Friedo Solter
N/A
Victor Deiß
N/A
Ute Lubosch
N/A
Franziska Ritter
N/A
Jana Simon
N/A
Rainer Simon
Director
Rainer Simon
Writer
Fritz Rudolf Fries
Writer
Friedrich Goldmann
Music
Karl-Ernst Sasse
Music
Roland Dressel
Cinematography
Helga Gentz
Editor