Directed by:
Etienne PérierScreenplay:
Arthur RoweCinematography:
Alan HumeComposer:
Roy BuddCast:
Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten, Marius Goring, Anton Diffring, Andrew Keir, Alexandra Stewart, Rupert Davies, Kai Remlov, John Baskcomb (more)Plots(1)
A colossal silver airship looms out of the clouds above the English Channel, then is swallowed in a silent mist. This is Germany's Zeppelin, the most feared air weapon of World War I. Michael York stars as Lt. Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a German-born Scot asked by the British to infiltrate a German zeppelin works. Although he knows he'll be branded as a traitor and mistrusted, he agrees. In what seems like luck, Richter-Douglas is invited aboard a zeppelin trial run, but that luck turns ominous once airborne. A German commandant initiates a daring raid over England - and Richter-Douglas finds that his knowledge of the Scottish countryside is the key to the mission's success. (official distributor synopsis)
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If you can bear the boring beginning and the not very expressive Michael York, you will be in for a decent adventure spectacle, which culminates in the end with very skilfully filmed actions on the ground and in the air. I rate Zeppelin as a slightly above-average film that has little to do with history, and I suspect it is even better in its original version and uncut image (which unfortunately retains its generously wide format on TV only during the opening and closing credits).
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