Voyage of the Damned – Orson Welles DVD

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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.

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In 1939, Germany’s Hamburg-America Line announced a voyage from Germany to Cuba. 937 people, the vast majority being Jews, signed up for the opportunity to escape Nazi Germany. Unbeknownst to the passengers, the visas they purchased were from a corrupt Cuban director of immigration, and they were invalid. Upon arrival in Havana, only 28 people were allowed to disembark, while the rest remained on board for weeks as they sailed to Florida, and eventually Canada, searching for safe haven. Sadly the ship returned to Antwerp after more than a month at sea. Forced back under Nazi rule as the low countries fell, it is estimated that approximately 250 of the refugees died in the extermination camps in occupied Poland.

 

REGION ALL PAL DVD DOES NOT PLAY IN UNITED STATES / CANADA

 

This item is a manufactured-on-demand release. Using recordable CDs & DVDs, the label who owns the rights to these MOD releases, custom burns discs for each order sold. Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these  MOD discs.

 

 

Additional information

Former Rental

No

Format

MOD DVD

Release Year

1976

Region Code

DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Special Features

Manufactured on Demand, PAL

Genre

Drama, War

Actor

Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant

Movie/TV Title

Voyage of the Damned