Frozen Flashes

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Just found out about this fascinating movie; it was made while Pynchon 
was working on GR.
Anybody seen it?
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Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKqqOAlnEjg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Flashes_%28film%29

/*Die gefrorenen Blitze*/ (/Frozen Lightning/; English-language title: 
*Frozen Flashes*; French-language title: *Et l'Angleterre sera 
détruite*, /England Would Be Destroyed/) is a two-part 1967 East-German 
film. The plot revolves around the history of the resistance movement in 
Peenemünde <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde> during the 
Second World War and its attempt to sabotage the V-2 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2> program.


      Part 1: Target Peenemünde

on 5 November 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives the Oslo 
Report <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Report>, but the Military 
Intelligence doubts its veracity. The German research in Peenemünde goes 
undisturbed from the British. In spite of this, various resistance 
groups gather information about the site and attempt to hinder the 
missiles' development, taking great risks.


      Part 2: Password Paperclip

After an Allied bombing wreaks great damage in Peenemünde, the local 
resistance manages to smuggle V-2 parts to Britain, where they would be 
analyzed by the Allies' technical intelligence. The Allies decide that 
the genius of the rockets' creator must be exploited by them. As the end 
of the war looms near, Peenemünde is abandoned. In Los Alamos 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos,_New_Mexico>, a new, deadlier 
weapon is being developed.

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The article about the director János Veiczi adds that the movie was 
expensive (5.1 million marks) and that the audience was not so 
enthusiastic about its semi-documentary style.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Veiczi

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