''Die Männer der Emden'' ("The Men of the ''Emden''", English title: ''Odyssey of Heroes'') is a 2012 German war

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directed and co-written by p. 267 Elm, Michael. ''Der Erste Weltkrieg im filmischen Gedächtnis: Kulturelles Trauma und Transnationale Erinnerung in Europa und dem Nahen Osten'', De Gruyter (20 Sept. 2021) that is an account of members of the crew of SMS ''Emden'' making their way back to

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after the

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(1914). The film was shot in

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and Germany and appeared as both a

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and a

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The film begins at the Imperial German naval station at the

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. Two officers of SMS ''Emden'' have a romantic rivalry with Maria von Plettenberg, who lives with her father, mother and sister in

Tsingtau Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to Ger ...

. When war is declared the ''Emden'' has a variety of successful naval engagements in the

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and Indian oceans. Soon after a raiding party is sent ashore to destroy a British wireless installation in the

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, ''Emden'' engages HMAS ''Sydney'' but the vessel is sunk with many of the crew captured. Rather than surrender, the shore party seizes the

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'' Ayesha'' and decides to sail back to the Kiautschou Bay concession to fight again. The Ayesha; a topsail schooner was owned by Clunies-Ross of Cocos Keeling Islands. Mücke and his men had sailed from Direction Island. When the crew arrives in the neutral

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they hear that the concession has been captured by the Japanese. With their fates unknown to each other, the men of ''Emden'' and the von Plettenberg family make their way back to Germany.

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