49th Parallel
Michael Powell / GB, 1941 / 123 min.
This Oscar winning British propaganda film in which the crew of a stranded U-boat make a perilous journey across Canada on route to the neutral USA was Pressburger’s attempt to beat Goebbels at his own game. His incensed, humane script completely destroys Nazi ideology.
For their third collaboration Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were commissioned to make a propaganda film by the British Ministry of Information. With 49th Parallel (1941, The Invaders in the USA) they attempted to influence public opinion in what until then had been a neutral America to support the country’s participation in World War II. As Pressburger later stated: "Goebbels considered himself an expert on propaganda, but I thought I’d show him a thing or two".
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Director
Michael Powell
Production year
1941
Country
GB
Original title
49th Parallel
Length
123 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger enjoyed huge success with films such as The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Eye presents the first-ever extensive retrospective of Powell & Pressburger’s work in the Netherlands.
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