ATLANTIS

The first feature film about the sinking of the Titanic, albeit with some not entirely justifiable inaccuracies… The plot centres on a first-class passenger, biologist Dr Friedrich von Kammacher, who during the journey meets the young dancer Ingigerd, a third-class passenger, with whom he falls in love at first sight. Thus begins the dear doctor’s “passing game”: by day he is always surrounded by his wife (also a first-class passenger), by night he sneaks off to meet the beautiful Ingigerd. When the ship hits “something” (we don’t know what), in the general panic, the two lose sight of each other. Von Kammacher finds her a few minutes later, unconscious, and carries her by weight to the deck where he puts her in a lifeboat and goes off to look for his wife, whom he does not find because she has fallen into the water and drowned. He then goes back and climbs into the lifeboat with Ingigerd. The lifeboat is lowered with only the two of them on board, and von Kammacher rows continuously to get away from the ship, which sinks so fast that the crew cannot lower any more lifeboats. The suction generated by the sinking ship pulls down almost all the passengers who were in the water, leaving only eight, who board von Kammacher and Ingigerd’s lifeboat. A passing freighter notices them and pulls them to safety. Cargo and survivors arrive in New York a few days later. Ingigerd is so upset that she can no longer dance, her career is ruined. Von Kammacher tries to console her by telling her that he loves her and wants a new life in New York with her…