Ship of Fools

Year: 1965

Runtime: 149 mins

Language: English

Director: Stanley Kramer

DramaRomanceMoving relationship storiesDisastrous voyages and heroic survivalPowerful poetic and passionate drama

A diverse group of passengers—including an explorer, a mistress, a vagrant, a loafer, an artist and a tramp—share a table with the captain aboard a ship bound for Europe in the 1930s. The German crew, led by Dr. Schumann, who falls for the mysterious La Condesa, observes this social microcosm. Young American Jenny travels with her lover David and is both fascinated and bewildered by the eclectic fellow travelers.

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