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Morituri(Movie, 1965)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
MorituriRating: 3.5/5 (with 3030 votes)
Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 American war thriller film directed by Bernhard Wicki and starring Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin and Trevor Howard. The cinematography was by Conrad L. Hall, and the film musical score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Based on a 1958 novel of the same title by German writer Werner Jörg Lüddecke, the film centers on a German pacificist (Brando) blackmailed by the Allied into sabotaging a Nazi-controlled merchant ship, whose captain is having his own second thoughts about the war effort. The title of the film is from the Latin phrase, Morituri te salutant ("We who are about to die, salute you”), attributed to Roman gladiators. Wicki's first English-language film, Moritiuri received generally positive reviews but was a commercial flop. It was nominated for two Oscars in ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Morituri

Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-And-White

About Morituri

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

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Morituri ≣ 1965 ≣ Trailer(Trailer, 3:03)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Tokyo
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/17/1965 (World premiere: 08/24/1965)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"谍舰"
"Kennwort Morituri"
"Saboteur - Code Name Morituri"

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Other movies with this title: Morituri (DE, 1948), Morituri (VE, 1984), Morituri (2007), Morituri (2015)

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