兴登堡号：终极飞行 Hindenburg: The Last Flight

故事根据上世纪30年代的真实事件改编，兴登堡号飞艇被称作那个时代「世界上最大的航空器」。1937年，在第二次世界大战爆发前夕，纳粹德国引以为傲的兴登堡号飞艇飞上了蓝天，但是很快便神秘坠毁。这次事故造成35名乘客和1名地面人员死亡，是二战之前最大的一次空难事故。目前科学家对这次事故有三种解释，该剧倾向于「爆炸说」。

Maximilian Simonichek扮演年轻的飞艇设计师Merten Kroger，齐柏林飞艇兴登堡号是他心血的结晶。然而他疯狂地爱上了一个富有的交际花，这超越阶级和等级的爱情注定以悲剧收场。Stacy Keach扮演富有的美国石油大亨Edward van Zandt。Lauren Lee Smith扮演Edward的女儿Jennifer van Zandt。Edward van Zandt为了财富不惜动用一切手段，导致兴登堡号飞艇及其乘客和船员陷入绝境。

详细剧情描述

Frankfurt, May 1937. The Hindenburg, the world’s largest airship, is getting ready to fly to New York. A vehicle of staggering dimensions, it is the pride of Nazi Germany. But it has one serious flaw: due to an American embargo preventing the sale of helium to Germany, the Hindenburg is filled with highly combustible hydrogen gas instead. To Merten Kröger, an engineer who helped design the Hindenburg, the ship is a stick of dynamite waiting for a spark.

The young man of great charm but modest means has fallen in love with the wealthy Jennifer van Zandt, the daughter of an American industrialist who wants to sell helium to the Germans. Just before the ship takes off, Merten learns how far the industrialist will go: he has had a bomb placed on the airship. What van Zandt didn’t know is that his wife and daughter would be on board. Merten sneaks aboard the airship without a minute to spare.

The young couple is reunited, and despite the great difference in class and social status between them, Jennifer, too, avows her love for Merten. He tells her of the bomb hidden somewhere on the airship. But there is little time for explanations, since Merten must flee: he is being sought for a murder he says he did not commit. Jennifer is confused – is Merten lying to her? On the run from the crew, Merten overhears Jennifer’s mother telling someone to reset the bomb, as the Hindenburg is expected to land in Lakehurst, near New York, several hours behind schedule. Before he can find out whom she was talking to, he is caught and brutally beaten.

Once proof is found that Merten did not commit the murder and that he is telling the truth about the bomb, the crew begins a race-against-time search to find it – a search for the needle in a haystack. Jennifer is shocked to learn that her mother was in on the conspiracy. Unfortunately, Mrs. van Zandt also doesn’t know the location of the explosives. And when the only person on board who knows where the dynamite has been hidden plunges into the sea to his death, it looks like nothing can save the Hindenburg anymore. Awaited by festive crowds, photographers and radio reporters, the airship majestically approaches Lakehurst…