Port of Freedom

Port of Freedom (1944)

Große Freiheit Nr. 7

Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care of his ex-girlfriend Gisa. Taking Gisa to Hamburg to live with him, Hannes quickly falls in love with her, but soon has to face Gisa's affection for another man, Willem.

Date of release
1944-12-15
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Helmut Käutner

Casting

Interesting facts

Great Freedom No. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit, a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St. Pauli red light district.

Production

Due to the threat of Allied bombing raids to Hamburg Harbour and to the Ufa studios in Berlin's Neubabelsberg and Tempelhof when it was made in 1943 (May to November), most of the movie was shot in Prague's Barrandov Studios by Helmut Käutner, as the first Agfa colorfilm by Terra. Portions were filmed aboard the four-masted barque Padua. For a scene with a boat trip in Hamburg harbour warships had to be covered up.

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