One of our main ambitions when realizing Titanic of the Sky was to give world-wide audiences an immediate, emotional access to the "Hindenburg's" tragic end and what it really meant in its time - to the survivors, to the families of the victims and to the shocked international public. How did it feel to be on board the "Hindenburg" as one of the "chosen few" rich enough to afford the world's most prestigious passage? How did it feel when the luxurious sky cruise turned into a flaming inferno - all of a sudden, without warning?

A central element in the film is the moving testimony of the last surviving passenger of the Hindenburg's last voyage - an international premiere: Werner Doehner was eight years old when he lost his family in the crash. To this day, he has not forgotten a single detail of the entire journey and its horrible end. Still, he has never before spoken in public about his horrific experience.

We were very honored when Mr. Doehner agreed to work with us along with Werner Franz, who was the Hindenburg's 13-year-old cabin boy, and other survivors of the disaster who tell us how they narrowly escaped death.

The trip to Lakehurst with Mr. Doehner and Mr. Franz was a moving experience. It was the first time they had met after the disaster, and their first opportunity to speak out. On the Hindenburg, the child of wealthy parents and the cabin boy who struggled hard to get by were worlds apart. A one-way ticket for the Hindenburg cost 20 times the cabin boys' monthly salary. Today, they are connected by the terrible memory they share and the tragedy that changed their lives forever.

Along with our eye witnesses' amazingly detailed memory, we were able to include another international first: When the Doehner family boarded the Hindenburg, his father took his 8mm camera with him. Miraculously, his film survived the crash almost undamaged - an amazing discovery and a genuine historic treasure.

This never-before-seen, original footage of the trip features side-by-side with professionally re-enacted scenes. The new sequences recreate the lavish atmosphere on board and help understand the shock when, out of the blue, the luxurious dream turned into the worst nightmare imaginable. They follow the Doehner family before and during the trip and are inspired by the re-discovered Doehner reel as well as authentic press photographs of the Hindenburg's last journey.

They were shot by director Christian Schidlowski with a cast of twenty professional actors and a crew of eleven inside a complete, full-scale reproduction of the Hindenburg's interior. The set included the luxurious lounge and panoramic gallery as well as the passengers' cabins. Additional scenes were filmed in several scenic villages near Friedrichshafen, birthplace of the Zeppelin.

Other highlights of this production include single-frame colorization of authentic historic material of the crash and high-end computer animations created by leading studios in London and Germany based on the original construction plans. The digitally created sequences visualize the causes of the crash and give fly-through impressions of the Hindenburg's build, the rarely-photographed crew quarters and the gigantic proportions of the airship.

Titanic of the Sky met with exceptional success on Travel Channel US, Discovery International and ZDF. When it premiered in a prime-time-slot, it drew one of ZDF's best audience ratings in the whole year with viewers aged 14 to 49.