Starring Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke, Heinz Welzel
Directed by Herbert Maisch, Hans Bertram
Print: Black and White
Genre: Action, Drama
Oberwerkmeister Bonicke has to quit the air force after suffering an injury. After a quarrel between two men leads to a challenge to one of them to make a dangerous flying maneuver, which results in an emergency landing, an order is considered, which would ground both men permanently. Bonicke, however, takes pains to ensure that they'll be able to fly again. This, however, turns out to be no blessing, when they are forced to once again make an emergency landing in the North Sea. Bonicke takes an old plane, a Fokker Dr I with the registration number D III 88 and takes off to find the men. He's successful in doing so and leads a ship to their rescue, but is killed in the process of doing so.
Starring Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke, Heinz Welzel
Directed by Herbert Maisch, Hans Bertram
Print: Black and White
Genre: Action, Drama
Oberwerkmeister Bonicke has to quit the air force after suffering an injury. After a quarrel between two men leads to a challenge to one of them to make a dangerous flying maneuver, which results in an emergency landing, an order is considered, which would ground both men permanently. Bonicke, however, takes pains to ensure that they'll be able to fly again. This, however, turns out to be no blessing, when they are forced to once again make an emergency landing in the North Sea. Bonicke takes an old plane, a Fokker Dr I with the registration number D III 88 and takes off to find the men. He's successful in doing so and leads a ship to their rescue, but is killed in the process of doing so.
