Morituri DVD 1965 / Directed by Bernhard Wicki / Starring: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard

UPC 5999546334739

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD (Black & White)

Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: Hungarian

Runtime: 118 minutes

English Summary:

Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about the Allied sabotage during World War II of a German merchant ship carrying rubber, a critical product during the war. The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Martin Benrath, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard and Wally Cox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki. The filming occurred almost exclusively on an old German freighter.

Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is a German pacifist during World War II, living in India as a Swiss national. He is blackmailed by English Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) and the Allies into going along with a plan to use his engineering knowledge to disable the scuttling charges on a German merchant ship carrying rubber from Japan. The Allies hope to bomb the ship and recover its cargo, as rubber is in short supply and essential for both sides' war effort. They provide Crain with fake documentation and a cover story that he is a high-ranking SS officer needing to sail to Germany.

On board the ship, Crain finds the captain (Yul Brynner) to be a patriotic German whose humanistic inclinations are hostile to Nazi principles. The first officer, Kruse (Martin Benrath), is a fanatical Party member who keeps a close eye on the captain. Crain convinces Kruse that he too is suspicious of the captain's loyalties. Several of the crew are in effect prisoners because of their political views, however they are pressed into service because of labor shortages. In time, after one of them tries to kill him, Crain enlists them in a plan to have the Allies take the ship.

Hungarian Summary:

"Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!", azaz "Üdv, Caesar, a halálba menők köszöntenek!" - ezek voltak az ókorban a kilátástalan harci feladatra induló katonák utolsó szavai. A küldetés most hasonlóan reménytelen. A célpont: egy, a második világháborús Japánból Németországba tartó hajó. A kulcsfontosságú rakomány a háború folytatásához nélkülözhetetlen alapanyag, a gumi. A brit hírszerzés emberének a döntő pillanatban meg kell akadályoznia a hajó felrobbanását.

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