Gallipoli Submarine

original title:
Gallipoli Submarine
other titles:
(Entscheidung vor Gallipoli - Die Höllenfahrt der AE2)
country / year of production:
Australia / 2008
original length:
51 min. , color
premiere:
24 April 2008
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Steve Westh
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producer:
Andrew Ogilvie , Crispin Sadler
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plot synopsis:
The documentary deals with the true story of an Australian submarine sunk at the beginning of World War I. As the Allies planed to open a new front-line at the Turkish panisula Gallipoli they tried to break through Bosporus. At that time, the Alliens aimed at a weakening of the Central Powers. Not least, they puposed to drive a wedge between Turkey and it`s conferderates.
Discovered in 1998 submarine AE2 depicts a great canche for scientists to find out more about what has happened in 1915.
Thus, this discovery also takes the salvage of AE2 to it's subject.
keywords:
submarine , mines , navy , post-war era
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
Vecihi Basarin. Beneath the Dardanelles. The Australian Submarine at Gallipoli.
Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2008.
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