''Scapa Flow'' is a 1930

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directed by

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and starring

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Claire Rommer Claire Rommer (born Klara Romberger; 7 December 1904 – 19 August 1996) was a German stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' The Queen of Whitechapel '' (1922) * '' The Anthem of Love'' (1922) * '' Der Herzog von Aleria'' (1923) * ...

and Claus Clausen. It is set around the

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and the

Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow On 21 June 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet was Scuttling, scuttled by its sailors while held off the harbour of the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of ...

at the close of the

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. In

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the scuttling of the fleet in defiance of the victorious

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had come to be seen as a popular patriotic act. The inclusion of the mutiny, however, was more controversial as it highlighted the political divisions which continued to exist. The film was praised by the right wing press, and comparisons were made to the Russian film ''

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''. The film was partly inspired by the 1918 play ''Seeschalt'' by

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.Kester p.175

Cast

* Claus Clausen *

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References

Bibliography

* Kester, Bernadette. ''Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933)''. Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

External links

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