Miracle of Flight (German: Wunder des Fliegens) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Ernst Udet, Jürgen Ohlsen and Käthe Haack. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. It in the tradition of mountain films and was backed by the Ministry of Aviation whose chief Hermann Göring briefly appears in the film. Jürgen Ohlsen, who plays the aspiring aviator in the film, had previously starred in another Nazi propaganda film Hitler Youth Quex in 1933.
Synopsis
A boy whose aviator father was killed in the First World War, idolises the fighter pilot Ernst Udet. His ambitions to become a pilot himself are opposed by his mother because of her loss her husband. While on a training flight the boy is stranded on a mountainside and a rescue mission is flown by Udet to rescue him. Eventually his mother's objections are overcome to his future career.
Cast
Ernst Udet as Flieger Udet
Jürgen Ohlsen as Heinz Muthesius
Käthe Haack as Mutter Muthesius
Hermann Göring as Cameo
Cornelius Booth
Leonie Duval
Elfriede Sandner
References
Bibliography
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