Farewell
2009 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 99 VOTES · DIR. Ditteke Mensink
Overview
Recently widowed from a man 50 years her senior and bored to tears with covering ladies fashion, Lady Grace leaped at the chance to be the only woman onboard one of the media sensations of the decade. At journey's end she returned to America a star, thanks to her good looks and gutsy charm. But her reports on the ship's travels for the front pages of the Hearst press empire only told part of the story. In her diary she recorded a far more intimate journey-her struggle to get over her secret affair with shipmate, mentor, and married man Karl von Wiegand. Combining spectacular archival footage of the journey across New York, Siberia, Tokyo, and the Pacific with narration drawn from Drummond's articles and her private journals, this sweeping black and white documentary stands as a vision of technological marvels and global hope in that narrow window between world wars when everything seemed possible except true love.
Dialogue Timeline — 719 lines
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00:02:06 New York, 4th of August.
00:04:34 The papers are full of the flight around the world.
00:07:03 We could crash in Siberia, far from help.
00:09:16 'of her flight around the world.
00:13:44 MORSE CODE BLEEPS
00:16:04 just back from Antarctica.
00:18:19 Karl and I make a division of tasks.
00:20:45 which brings us all out in greatest haste to see it.
00:22:56 makes sure the steward takes good care of me.
00:27:36 This great German achievement has restored their national pride.
00:30:13 I wake up early, sweaty
00:35:01 The traffic is chaotic
00:38:47 I haven't written a word, the paper is still blank.
00:42:24 Karklin storms into the wheelhouse, shouting at Eckener
00:45:13 of sparkling lights as, one by one
00:49:08 If you consider the distance we have travelled
00:53:26 Only because of the look in his eyes.
00:56:24 just like a temple.
00:59:59 Karl looks happier than he has done for ages.
01:03:04 Since that moment, radio contact has been broken.
01:07:20 RADIO MESSAGE: An airship, by all odds the Graf Zeppelin
01:11:00 I torment myself by waiting.
01:14:38 We explored countries where people live as prisoners
01:17:57 The police are trying to keep everything under control.