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Ikarus, the Flying Man

★ 5/10 · 2 votes 1918 1h 35m Released

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Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.

Cast

Ernst Hofmann Günther Ellinghaus Esther Carena Clemence de Montignon Gustav Botz Günther's Father Olga Engl Günther's Mother Heinz Sarnow Baron d'Aubigny E Edith Sorel Cousin Erika