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==Plot==
==Plot==
The film begins shortly before the outbreak of [[World War II]] with Jochen Marseille attending a [[Luftwaffe]] (Air Force) school in Berlin. His squadron is transferred to the [[Africa Corps]] in the [[North African Theater of Operations]]. Marseille quickly becomes the most successful fighter pilot. His unit loses more and more pilots to the [[Desert Air Force]], and Marseille begins to doubt the usefulness of his operations. He travels to Berlin to receive a high military decoration. He falls in love with a teacher, Brigitte, and the two go to Rome where Marseille is to receive a decoration from the Italian High command. The distraught Brigitte tries to persuade him to defect, but he returns to North Africa. During a reconnaissance flight over Egypt, his aircraft suffers an engine failure; Marseille bails out as the aircraft crashes, but his parachute does not open. His body is later found in the desert. Brigitte receives the news of his death.<ref name="Wübbe p387">Wübbe 2001, p. 387.</ref>
The film begins shortly before the outbreak of [[World War II]] with Jochen Marseille attending a [[Luftwaffe]] (Air Force) school in Berlin. His squadron is transferred to the [[Africa Corps]] in the [[North African Theater of Operations]]. Marseille quickly becomes the most successful fighter pilot. His unit loses more and more pilots to the [[Desert Air Force]], and Marseille begins to doubt the usefulness of his operations. He travels to Berlin to receive a high military decoration where he falls in love with a teacher, Brigitte. The couple go to Rome where Marseille is to receive a decoration from the Italian High command. The distraught Brigitte tries to persuade him to defect, but he returns to North Africa. During a flight over Egypt, his aircraft suffers an engine failure; Marseille bails out as the aircraft crashes, but his parachute does not open. His body is later found in the desert. Brigitte receives the news of his death.<ref name="Wübbe p387">Wübbe 2001, p. 387.</ref>


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 03:37, 18 November 2016

Der Stern von Afrika
The Star of Africa
Directed byAlfred Weidenmann
Written byHerbert Reinecker and Udo Wolter
StarringJoachim Hansen
Marianne Koch
CinematographyHelmut Ashley
Music byHans-Martin Majewski
Production
company
Release date
13 August 1957
Running time
99 min.
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Der Stern von Afrika (English: The Star of Africa) is a 1957 black-and-white German war film portraying the combat career of a World War II Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille. It stars Joachim Hansen and Marianne Koch and was directed by Alfred Weidenmann. The film was premièred on 13 August 1957 in Berlin and was successful at the German box office, although the critics predominantly gave it a poor rating.[1]

The media historian James Chapman described the film as a "whitewash" that presented an "acceptable face of wartime heroics" in West German films of that period. He film did not portray Marseille's Nazi convictions, instead presenting his a rebel in trouble with his superiors.[2]

Plot

The film begins shortly before the outbreak of World War II with Jochen Marseille attending a Luftwaffe (Air Force) school in Berlin. His squadron is transferred to the Africa Corps in the North African Theater of Operations. Marseille quickly becomes the most successful fighter pilot. His unit loses more and more pilots to the Desert Air Force, and Marseille begins to doubt the usefulness of his operations. He travels to Berlin to receive a high military decoration where he falls in love with a teacher, Brigitte. The couple go to Rome where Marseille is to receive a decoration from the Italian High command. The distraught Brigitte tries to persuade him to defect, but he returns to North Africa. During a flight over Egypt, his aircraft suffers an engine failure; Marseille bails out as the aircraft crashes, but his parachute does not open. His body is later found in the desert. Brigitte receives the news of his death.[3]

Cast

References

Citations
  1. ^ Tate 2008, p. 206.
  2. ^ James Chapman (2011): War and Film
  3. ^ Wübbe 2001, p. 387.
Bibliography
  • Tate, Robert (2008). Hans-Joachim Marseille: An Illustrated Tribute to the Luftwaffe's "Star of Africa" . Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7643-2940-1.
  • Wübbe, Walter (2001). Hauptmann Hans Joachim Marseille Ein Jagdfliegerschicksal in Daten, Bildern und Dokumenten (in German). Schnellbach, Germany: Verlag Siegfried Bublies. ISBN 3-926584-78-5.
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