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Le voyage des damnés

Original title: Voyage of the Damned
  • 1976
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  • 2h 35m
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6.4/10
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Le voyage des damnés (1976)
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
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The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

  • Director
    • Stuart Rosenberg
  • Writers
    • Steve Shagan
    • David Butler
    • Gordon Thomas
  • Stars
    • Faye Dunaway
    • Oskar Werner
    • Lee Grant
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Stuart Rosenberg
    • Writers
      • Steve Shagan
      • David Butler
      • Gordon Thomas
    • Stars
      • Faye Dunaway
      • Oskar Werner
      • Lee Grant
    • 46User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
    • 31Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 3 Oscars
      • 1 win & 10 nominations total

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    Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway
    • Denise Kreisler
    Oskar Werner
    Oskar Werner
    • Professor Egon Kreisler
    Lee Grant
    Lee Grant
    • Lili Rosen
    Sam Wanamaker
    Sam Wanamaker
    • Carl Rosen
    Lynne Frederick
    Lynne Frederick
    • Anna Rosen
    David de Keyser
    David de Keyser
    • Joseph Joseph
    • (as David De Keyser)
    Della McDermott
    • Julia Strauss
    Genevieve West
    • Sarah Strauss
    Luther Adler
    Luther Adler
    • Professor Weiler
    Wendy Hiller
    Wendy Hiller
    • Rebecca Weiler
    Julie Harris
    Julie Harris
    • Alice Fienchild
    Nehemiah Persoff
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    • Mr. Hauser
    Maria Schell
    Maria Schell
    • Mrs. Hauser
    Paul Koslo
    Paul Koslo
    • Aaron Pozner
    Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce
    • Joseph Manasse
    Brian Gilbert
    Brian Gilbert
    • Laurenz Schulman
    Georgina Hale
    Georgina Hale
    • Lotte Schulman
    Adele Strong
    • Mrs. Schulman
    • Director
      • Stuart Rosenberg
    • Writers
      • Steve Shagan
      • David Butler
      • Gordon Thomas
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    robert-temple-1

    An amazing and harrowing tale

    This is a really remarkable film of great importance. It concerns the voyage of an ocean liner from Hamburg in Germany to Cuba, loaded with Jews who have bought their way out of the Nazi nightmare by paying money to Heinrich Himmler. The voyage across the Atlantic is long and slow, with much drama taking place on the way. But when the ship reaches Cuba, the Jews are not allowed to disembark after all, and the whole voyage turns out to have been a 'set-up', a cover for a military cargo arrangement. The film has an all-star cast of prominent film actors of the 1970s. There are so many of them it almost seems as if the whole of Hollywood tried to squeeze into the cast list. The stars include Faye Dunaway, Orson Welles, James Mason, Max von Sydow as the ship's captain, Jose Ferrer, Julie Harris, Oscar Werner in his last film, Maria Schell, Wendy Hiller (who is marvellous, as always), Sam Wanamaker, Ben Gazzara, and the list goes on. Some of these stars appear only fleetingly, between decks as it were, and others have real parts. Some like Orson Welles and Fernando Rey are even on land, and not at sea at all. (After all various diplomats in capital cities have to be seen debating whether to save the Jews or not, or the story would have no context.) Some of the younger stars of the day such as Katharine Ross, Lynne Frederick, and Malcolm McDowell are now largely forgotten as 'names', but were 'big' then. In his first feature film role, Jonathan Pryce is spectacular. Supporting actors like Lee Grant, Victor Spinetti and Luther Adler were familiar then but few now remember them at all, despite the many roles they played on countless occasions, so that everyone at least knew their faces. The film was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and was based on a best-selling novel, which in turn was based upon the notorious real events which actually happened and were an international scandal. The name of the ship was the S.S. St. Louis, and there were 937 Jewish passengers aboard. I cannot reveal the ending of the film or the fate of these passengers, but the historical remarks under 'Trivia' in the IMDb entry add information which partially corrects details of the facts as portrayed in the film.
    6whpratt1

    Sad Picture

    This is a very down to earth film about German Jews who were kicked out of Hamburg, Germany and were placed on a ship called the S/S St. Louis headed to Havana, Cuba. This ship carried 937 passengers, some children and Jewish people with all kinds of backgrounds, even prisoners from concentration camps who were teachers. The Nazi movement was showing great Anti-Semitism during the Year 1939 before World War II started. Faye Dunaway, (Denise Kreisler) gave an outstanding performance as a very pretty, rich, sexy wife of Dr. Egan Kreisler, (Oskar Werner). There is a young man who works on the ship and is a German and he falls in love with a very pretty Jewish girl and they become very close together and had to make some horrible decisions. Great film which tells the true story of what happened to most of the people who were on board this horrible cruise of Nazi Germany.
    7lastliberal

    Shame on US

    Despite the fact that this film had three Oscar nominations, and several Golden Globe nominations with one win (Katharine Ross), and a boatload of stars, it is not worth watching so much for it's quality (marginal) but for the story of how we knew what was happening to the Jews before World War II and did little to stop it.

    This is the story of 937 Jews that were put on a boat to Havana with useless documents, as the German government had no intention of letting them off the ship. They were denied entry into Cuba, and the US also denied them entry before they finally were saved by a social service agency and allowed to land in Belgium. Of course, that would prove ultimately fatal for two-thirds of them as the war started just two months later.

    Why would Germany do this? Simple. By sending a ship of Jews to the America's and having them turned away, they negated any right the US would have to complain when they started exterminating Jews. Clever of them, and our government fell right into their trap. Our support for Israel is not so much that we love the Jews, but a massive guilt for our participation in their extermination.

    There were some great performances in this otherwise mediocre film: Lee Grant and Katherine Ross; some good performances: Ben Gazzara, Faye Dunaway; and the film debut of Jonathan Pryce (POTC 1. 2. & 3, Tomorrow Never Dies).

    Check it out.
    6moonspinner55

    Title tells all; occasionally interesting and compassionate

    Nazi atrocities hang over the heads of some 937 Jewish refugees who are allowed to board the S.S. St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana in 1939, but corrupt Cuban dignitaries (and apathetic other countries) manage to find unjust legalities which prevent the ocean-liner from docking. Dramatized true account with a star-studded cast filling the roles of the passengers (professors, lawyers, teachers, one rabbi, a Nazi spy, at least two children, a Christian ship's captain, and Faye Dunaway, looking wonderfully turned-out as the wife of a frustrated doctor). With anti-Semitism making a wave through Havana, nobody there is anxious to take on the Jews (they are looked on as charity cases), but the personalities in these excursions are static at best, with Ben Gazzara playing a globe-trotting businessman attempting to bargain on behalf of the voyagers (he seems to come from a different film altogether). Produced (or, one may say, packaged) by '70s tycoon Sir Lew Grade, the proceedings verge on the edge of disaster-movie clichés (with the appearance and the pacing of a television mini-series). The material warrants attention, but the melodrama inherent in the situation continually falters--gummed up with ungainly issues, overdrawn hysteria (Sam Wanamaker's suicide attempt), flagrant sentiment (Katharine Ross' Havana prostitute), and thuggish violence (it's bad enough that the two male teachers--scrawny and with their heads shaved--have been through hell, this narrative gives them more of the same, which is about as entertaining as watching victims at a firing squad). Dunaway, coolly regal and ice-pack gorgeous, approaches her part like visiting royalty, and gives the film a little goose. **1/2 from ****
    7lee_eisenberg

    a fateful trip aboard a ship

    Usually, it seems like whenever a movie has a giant cast, then that's the movie's only strength. "Voyage of the Damned" did have more to it than simply its cast. Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Orson Welles, Max Von Sydow, Jonathan Pryce, Malcolm McDowell, Lee Grant, James Mason, and a bunch of other big names star in this true story of a ship that left Nazi Germany bound for Cuba. The passengers were German Jews who believed that they were on their way to freedom in Cuba, but realized when they arrived that there was never any plan to set them free.

    Maybe the cast does overshadow the plot, but it's still worth seeing. The movie is out of print, so you might have trouble finding it. Portland's Movie Madness has a copy, in case you ever come to Portland.

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    • Trivia
      The film was shot mostly in England. After losing a huge amount of money from its American release, the film was released in Britain about a year later. It was also cut from 155 minutes to 137 minutes. Janet Suzman's role was cut out completely, though her name was still prominently displayed in the opening credits.
    • Goofs
      A 1970s red London bus drives past the German Army HQ in late 1930s Hamburg.
    • Quotes

      Captain Schroeder: I neither approved nor knew of it and assure you it shall not happen again. I frankly admit there appears to have been a lapse of good taste.

    • Crazy credits
      "This film is based upon a true incident. Some of the names, occupations and experiences of those involved have been altered to protect the privacy of the survivors and their families."
    • Alternate versions
      A version running a length of 182 minutes, released in 1980 on a double-cassette Magnetic Video, was released in 1980. The current video version, from Artisan/Live runs 158 minutes (even though the video cover says 137 minutes).
    • Connections
      Featured in Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Horst Wessel Song
      (uncredited)

      Written by Horst Wessel

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    • Release date
      • March 2, 1977 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El viaje de los condenados
    • Filming locations
      • St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel London, Euston Road, London, Greater London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Associated General Films
      • Robert Fryer Production
      • ITC Entertainment
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      • $7,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 35 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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