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Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
drama, melodrama, military
1965
USA
Stanley Kramer
149 min.
Vivien Lee, Simone Signora, Jose Ferrer
The place and time of action are tightly limited. Heroes are passengers of the ship - people of different nationalities, representatives of different strata of society, and the team of the giant liner "Vera". One of the passengers is a philosophizing dwarf Glocken, gives Lainer a new name “Ship of Fools”. They have to jointly make a flight from the port of Verakrus (Mexico) to Bremerhafen. They are “doomed to a joint journey”, which will last several weeks. Alien to each other, people appear to be a kind of symbol of the human community, burdened by vices and base passions, which, ultimately, according to Porter, and made Hitler’s power to power.
