Movies: The Dream of Being Unsinkable

A film about home set at sea, narrated by Charly Hübner.

In *VOM TRAUM, UNSINKBAR ZU SEIN*, Rostock-based director Tom Fröhlich embarks on a maritime journey back to his roots. At the height of its glory, the GDR’s deep-sea fishing fleet comprised over 100 vessels—the largest ever to sail under the German flag. For four decades, the major shipping company did not lose a single ship at sea. Today, only a few of these steel colossi remain.
Tom Fröhlich has tracked down four of them: off the coast of Greenland, in a Spanish port, at a Danish scrapyard, and in the Port of Hamburg. They are the last witnesses to a vanished working world—and at the same time, living places where people still work, live, and remember. Narrated by Charly Hübner and featuring shanties by the “Luv und Lee” choir