His sympathy for the countess soon evolves into love, though both realize it is a hopeless passion. The doctor conceals having a heart condition. Her sense of doom is contrasted with the doctor's initial determination to fight the forces of oppression, embodied by his insistence that the people in steerage be treated like human beings rather than cargo. She is being transported to a Spanish prison on the Canary Island of Tenerife. Schumann, takes a special interest in La Condesa, a countess from Cuba who has an opiate addiction which he reluctantly accommodates with prescriptions. Many passengers bound for Nazi Germany are happy, some are apprehensive, while others downplay the significance of fascist politics. They are all being deported back to Spain by the order of the Cuban dictator, Gerardo Machado. Most of the scenes unfold on the First Class deck or among the upper middle-class passengers, but the ship is carrying 600 displaced workers, far more than the ship is certified to carry and they're assigned to squalid conditions in steerage. The action of the film takes place almost entirely on board a passenger ship in 1933, between Veracruz Mexico and Bremerhaven, Germany. if you look closely enough, you may even find yourself on board.' I'm a fool and you'll meet more fools as we go along. It won for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1966, including for Best Picture, Best Actor for Oskar Werner, Best Actress for Simone Signoret, and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Dunn. Ship of Fools, which was based on Katherine Anne Porter's 1962 novel of the same name, was highly regarded, with reviewers praising the cast's performance but also noted the movie's overlong (for 1965) runtime. It also marked Christiane Schmidtmer's first U.S. It stars a prominent ensemble cast of 11 stars - Vivien Leigh (in her final film role), Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Jose Greco, Michael Dunn, Charles Korvin and Heinz Ruehmann. Ship of Fools is a 1965 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, set on board an ocean liner bound for Germany from Mexico in 1933. $3,500,000 (rentals) Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America

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