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Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, with an all-star cast featuring Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, and Malcolm McDowell.

Voyage of the Damned
Film poster by Richard Amsel
Directed by	Stuart Rosenberg
Screenplay by	Steve Shagan David Butler
Based on	Voyage of the Damned 1974 book by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
Produced by	Robert Fryer William Hill
Starring	Faye Dunaway Max von Sydow Oskar Werner Malcolm McDowell Orson Welles James Mason Lee Grant Katharine Ross Luther Adler Michael Constantine Denholm Elliott José Ferrer Lynne Frederick Helmut Griem Julie Harris Wendy Hiller Paul Koslo Nehemiah Persoff Fernando Rey Leonard Rossiter Maria Schell Victor Spinetti Janet Suzman Sam Wanamaker Ben Gazzara
Cinematography	Billy Williams
Edited by	Tom Priestley
Music by	Lalo Schifrin
Production company	ITC Entertainment
Distributed by	Rank Film Distributors (United Kingdom) AVCO Embassy Pictures (United States)
Release dates	19 December 1976 (1976-12-19) (Premiere) 22 December 1976 (1976-12-22) (Los Angeles and New York City) [1]
Running time	155 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$7.3 million[2][3]

The story was inspired by actual events concerning the fate of the ocean liner St. Louis carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939. It was based on a 1974 nonfiction book of the same title written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts.[4] The screenplay was written by Steve Shagan and David Butler. The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and released by Rank Film Distributors in the UK and Avco Embassy Pictures in the US.

Plot

Based on historic events, this dramatic film concerns the 1939 voyage of the German-flagged MS St. Louis, which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, ostensibly bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising antisemitism in Germany, realised this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers, who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in propaganda, and that it had never been intended that they disembark in Cuba. Rather, they were to be set up as pariahs, to set an example before the world. As a Nazi official states in the film, when the whole world has refused to accept the Jews as refugees, no country can blame Germany for their fate.

The Cuban government refuses entry to the passengers, and the liner heads to the United States. As it waits off the Florida coast, the passengers learn that the United States also has rejected them, leaving the captain no choice but to return to Europe. The captain tells a confidante that he has received a letter signed by 200 passengers saying they will join hands and jump into the sea rather than return to Germany. He states his intention to run the liner aground on a reef off the southern coast of England, to allow the passengers to be rescued and reach safety there.

Shortly before the film's end, it is revealed that the governments of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have each agreed to accept a share of the passengers as refugees. As they cheer and clap at the news, footnotes disclose the fates of some of the main characters, suggesting that more than 600 of the 937 passengers, who did not resettle in Britain but in the other European nations, ultimately were deported and were murdered in Nazi concentration camps.

Cast

Production

The book was published in 1974. The Los Angeles Times called it "a human document of rare and discerning power".[5] The book was a best seller, and the authors earned an estimated £500,000 from it.[6]

Rights to the book were acquired in 1974.[2] It was originally envisioned as an ABC Movie of the Week but its budget of $7.3 million was too expensive.[2]

The film was the first feature of Associated General Films.[2]

Dunaway was paid $500,000 plus a percentage of the profits.[7]

The movie was filmed on board the chartered Italian ocean liner Irpinia,[8] which was fitted with two false funnels in order to resemble St. Louis.[9][1] It was also shot on location in Barcelona, Spain (standing in for Cuba),[1][2] St. Pancras Chambers in London, and at the EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.[10]

Actual death toll

The true death toll is uncertain. The 1974 book that was the basis of the film estimated a much lower number of deaths.[4] By using statistical analysis of survival rates for Jews in various Nazi-occupied countries, Thomas and Morgan-Witts estimated the fate of the 621 St. Louis passengers who were not given refuge in Cuba or the United Kingdom (one died during the voyage): 44 (20%) of the 224 refugees that settled in France likely were murdered in the Holocaust, 62 (29%) Holocaust murders amongst the 214 that reached Belgium, and 121 (67%) Holocaust murders amongst the 181 that settled in the Netherlands, for a total of 227 (37%) of the refugees that came under occupation were likely murdered by the Nazis.[11][12] In 1998, Scott Miller and Sarah Ogilvie of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum traced the survivors from the voyage, concluding that a total of 254 refugees or 40.9 percent were murdered by the Nazis.[13]

Release

The film opened on 22 December 1976 in four theatres in New York and Los Angeles.[2]

Box office

According to Lew Grade who helped finance the film, the movie "should have done better" at the box office.[14] He wrote in his memoirs "I thought it was one of the most moving and important films I'd seen in a long time. I just couldn't understand why it didn't become a success" adding that "strangely enough, it did outstanding business in Japan."[15]

Alternate version

The complete, uncut version of the film was 182 minutes long. It was released only once, on the Magnetic Video label in 1980.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and nominations

Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
Academy Awards[16]	Best Supporting Actress	Lee Grant	Nominated
	Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium	David Butler and Steve Shagan	Nominated
	Best Original Score	Lalo Schifrin	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[17]	Best Motion Picture – Drama		Nominated
	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Oskar Werner	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	Lee Grant	Nominated
		Katharine Ross	Won
	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture	David Butler and Steve Shagan	Nominated
	Best Original Score – Motion Picture	Lalo Schifrin	Nominated
Japan Academy Film Prize	Outstanding Foreign Language Film		Nominated

Soundtrack

Voyage of the Damned
Soundtrack album by Lalo Schifrin
Released	1977
Recorded	12 and 13 April 1977 Wembley, England
Genre	Film score
Label	Entr'Acte ERS 6508-ST
Producer	John Lasher
Lalo Schifrin chronology
Towering Toccata (1976) Voyage of the Damned (1977) Rollercoaster (1977)

The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin and the soundtrack album was released on the Entr'Acte label in 1977.[18]

Track listing

Personnel

• Lalo Schifrin - arranger, conductor
• London Studio Orchestra

See also

• Jewish refugees
• Ship of Fools

References

External links

• Voyage of the Damned at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Voyage of the Damned at IMDb
• Voyage of the Damned at Rotten Tomatoes
• Voyage of the Damned at the TCM Movie Database

На других языках

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[de] Reise der Verdammten

Reise der Verdammten ist der Titel eines 1976 produzierten Filmdramas, dessen Handlung die Irrfahrt der St. Louis rekonstruiert, eine historisch verbürgte Episode kurz vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Als Vorlage diente das Buch Voyage of the Damned von Gordon Thomas und Max Morgan-Witts.

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- [en] Voyage of the Damned

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[es] Voyage of the Damned (película de 1976)

Voyage of the Damned (titulada El viaje de los malditos en España y Argentina y El viaje de los condenados en México y Colombia) es un largometraje británico estrenado el 22 de diciembre de 1976 (en México se estrenó el 6 de octubre de 1977). Narra una historia basada en hechos reales, el viaje emprendido por un transatlántico con un pasaje de judíos alemanes desde el puerto de Hamburgo al puerto de La Habana, Cuba, todo ello como una maniobra encubierta de propaganda y espionaje del partido nacionalsocialista alemán (NSDAP).

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[it] La nave dei dannati

La nave dei dannati (Voyage of the Damned) è un film del 1976, diretto da Stuart Rosenberg.

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[ru] Путешествие проклятых

«Путешествие проклятых» (англ. Voyage of the Damned) — кинофильм, драма режиссёра Стюарта Розенберга. Фильм снят по одноимённой книге Гордона Томаса и Макса Морган-Уиттса (1974) и основан на реальных событиях, связанных с путешествием немецких еврейских беженцев на лайнере Сент-Луис в 1939 году.

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