The Shadow of Herostratus (2009)

Chronicle of 1937 - Germany, technical personnel prepare the airship "

Hindenburg"

for flight, they move it along the airfield with the help of cables, a Nazi swastika is visible on the airship, a top view of a huge airship on the field, in the frame, a hangar, an airfield, cars with passengers on the field, a steam locomotive is moving, a railway station, a platform, a train is standing, passengers are walking, a line of passengers to the airship, various shots with the airship in the hangar.

Portrait of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg.

Chronicle of 1933 - Germany, a parade, the transfer of power to Hitler, in the frame Hitler, German officers, commanders, residents, Hitler and Hindenburg are riding in a car.

Photograph - Hitler with Hindenburg in a car.

Chronicle of 1933-1936 - design bureau, engineers, draftsmen work at drawing boards, workers at the plant produce metal parts, blanks, etc., the metal frame of the airship is assembled, in the frame - a round frame of the airship (top view), different plans of the airship under construction in the hangar, builders workers work, the hull and interior are being finished, structures are assembled, etc.

Photographs from the airship museum in Friedrichshafen (Germany) - recreated cabins, halls and other rooms of the Hindenburg.

The image of the airship on postage stamps.

Chronicle of 1937 - the Hindenburg is taken out of the hangar, the airship rises into the air.

In the photo - the director of the Zeppelin company Ernst Lehmann and crew members.

Chronicle of 1937 - various shots of the airship in the air, enthusiastic spectators applauding and waving below, the crew of the Hindenburg in the cockpit, controlling the flight, view of the airship from below, view of the earth from above, various shots of the airship in the air, passengers of the Hindenburg looking out the windows on the observation deck, the airship in the air (shot from an airplane).

Chronicle of 1937 - the interior of the Hindenburg, the wardroom, the hall, the restaurant, passengers at tables, guests being served by waiters, a close-up of the restaurant menu, various shots of the restaurant and bar on the airship.

The photograph shows the chef and pastry chef of the restaurant.

Chronicle of 1937 - cooks working in the restaurant kitchen, passengers looking out the windows on the observation deck, sitting in the hall at tables.

The photographs show a grand piano in the restaurant hall, musicians playing, a singer singing.

Game insert in black and white - airship passengers in their cabins, a woman combing her hair in front of a mirror, etc.

Chronicle of 1937 - men in a special smoking room on an airship, passengers on the observation deck, watching the flight through binoculars, standing near the windows, a man leaning out of the window, passengers looking out the windows, a view of the sea, icebergs, ice (shot from the airship), the airship flying over the ship, etc.

Game insert in black and white - a thunderstorm, lightning in the sky, raindrops, etc.

Chronicle of 1937 - the Hindenburg in the air, passengers in the cabin looking at their watches, preparing to land, the airship flying over New York, in the frame Manhattan, skyscrapers, New York streets, traffic, houses, various shots with the airship in the sky above the city.

Chronicle of 1937 - Lakehurst Air Force Base in the suburbs of New York, people are waiting for the arrival of the airship, reporters, photographers are in the frame, various shots with the airship in the sky above the city, a view of the landing field, the airship descending, a special mast for mooring, etc., people in the window of the airship, people on the field watch the airship descend, various shots with the airship coming in for a landing, cables are visible, etc.

Photographs - people on the field, watching the landing.

Chronicle of 1937 - explosion on the Hindenburg, sparks, fire, conflagration, various shots with the burning airship, the Hindenburg falls to the ground, people run across the field, burning remains of the airship, etc.

Photograph - rescuers take out a burnt man.

Chronicle of 1937 - burning remains of an airship, people rushing around the field, thick dark smoke rising into the sky, cars in the frame, firefighters putting out the fire, surviving passengers walking across the field, various shots of extinguishing the fire, the burnt airship, a stretcher with a victim of the fire being carried into an ambulance.

In the photo - the director of the Zeppelin company Ernst Lehmann and crew members.

In the photos - the captain of the Hindenburg Max Pruss after the disaster with a burnt face and hands.

NF photos - a board with chalk written on it the names of those who survived and died in the disaster.

Chronicle of 1937 - a panorama of the burnt remains of the airship after the fire, a top view of the crash site.

In the frame - newspaper headlines about the Hindenburg disaster.

Chronicle of 1937 - a wounded man on a stretcher is loaded into a car, in the frame - a document (an official letter from Hitler to the White House), the German delegation to the USA, in the frame - coffins with those killed in the disaster, members of the delegation walk past the coffins, raise their hands in a Nazi salute, lay flowers, etc., the coffins are lifted, loaded onto a ship, the ship sails from the port to the USA. Chronicle of 1937 - a panorama of the burnt remains of an airship, a metal frame.

The photographs - the metal frame of the burnt airship, newspaper headlines about the causes of the disaster.

Chronicle of 1937 - "Hindenburg" in the sky over the city.

In the frame - a newspaper headline about the causes of the disaster.

In the photograph - the airship before the disaster, a swastika is visible on the hull.

Chronicle of 1937 - a congress of the Nazi party, Hitler and his comrades walk past people raising their hands in a Nazi salute.

Filming from an airplane - flying over the crash site, in the frame - charred fragments of the airship, a metal frame, etc.

Chronicle of 1937 - a commission investigating the disaster, a press conference, in the frame reporters, etc.

Chronicle of 1937 - the crash site, people in uniform inspect the area, in the frame - wreckage of the airship, charred parts, various parts of the hull, a metal frame, etc.

In the frame - an official document, a conclusion after the inspection and investigation (in English).

A newspaper article with pictures about a possible bomb explosion on board.

A page of an official document from the investigation.

Chronicle of 1937 - an airship in the sky.

In the photographs - American farmers.

Chronicle of 1937 - drummers with drums, Nazi Germany, flags with swastikas, Hitler walking past a line of soldiers, various speeches by Hitler from the stands.

In the photographs - the burning Hindenburg airship.

Group photo - Heinrich Himmler in the center.

In the photo - Heinrich Müller.

Fragment from the film "Hindenburg" (1975).

Chronicle of 1937 - an airship in the sky, the ocean shore, waves, etc., gas cylinders, vials with reagents, close-up - a hand with a piece of paper, close-up - a match is lit, an experiment - paper is set on fire on a tripod.

Chronicle of 1937 - a recreation of the cause of the ignition and the fire on the Hindenburg, a burning airship, a newspaper spread with a headline about the disaster.

Stills from a German newsreel from 1937-1939 - a parade, military formation, the Minister of Aviation of the Third Reich G. Goering walking in front of the formation, faces of German citizens, Goering giving a speech, planes in a hangar.

A chronicle from the 1970s - an airship museum in Germany, the central entrance, a library, shelves with books, a printing house, printing presses in operation.

A photograph - people reading a newspaper.

A chronicle from the 1970s - a man takes a book from a shelf in the library, sits down at the table.

Close-up - an envelope with stamps.

A chronicle from the 30s - hands typing on a typewriter, footage of a burning airship.

The picture shows the Temple of Artemis in Ancient Greece.

The photograph shows the ruins of an ancient Greek temple.

Stills from their feature film.

A chronicle - a typewriter, close-up - hands putting a sheet of paper in a suitcase.

There is a yellow mailbox on the wall of the house.

Large - envelope with stamps.

Stills from a feature film.

Chronicle of the 1970s - journalist Klaus Riche studies materials on the Hindenburg disaster in the library, looks at maps, passenger lists, makes notes.

Large - covers of Remarque's books in German.

Photograph of Remarque.

On the screen - different spellings of the name "Remarque".

In the photograph - the writer Remarque.

Old drawings - a dragon biting its tail, an alchemists' laboratory, a symbol of the philosopher's stone.

Engraving by artist A. Durer "Melancholia".

On the screen - the name "Rehburg" turns into the name "Gruber".

Fragments from the feature film "Hindenburg" (1975).

A newspaper article about the Hindenburg disaster with photographs.

Chronicle 1936-1937 - gears and mechanisms are working, workers are pulling the airship on cables, the airship is rising into the air, people are waving their hands on the ground below, passengers are on board the airship, in the restaurant, on the observation deck, etc., the shadow of the airship is on the ground.