With a running time of 35 minutes, In Nacht und Eis was three times longer than the average film of 1912. The Berlin Fire Department provided water to use for the sinking scenes.

The Café Parisien scenes were filmed in the vessel's Winter Garden. The film was produced by Continental-Kunstfilm of Berlin, and while most of its footage was shot in a glasshouse studio in the rear courtyard of the offices at 123 Chausseestrasse, some footage was shot in Hamburg, and some was possibly done aboard the German ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, then docked at Hamburg. The captain swims to the lifeboat but when he is offered a spot, he instead swims away and goes underwater to drown. Some survivors make it to a lifeboat, where they are pulled in. The radio room floods, and finally the operators and captain jump ship and Titanic sinks. Fire blows out of the funnels during the sinking and then the boilers explode. The radio operators (who take up most of the sinking part of the film) send out an SOS. Women and children are loaded, while the men are held back. The crew ready the lifeboats, despite the fact that there are not enough of them. On 14 April, Titanic strikes an iceberg, throwing the diners in the Café Parisien to the side. The lives of the passengers on board the ill-fated ocean liner are depicted.

The film starts out with the passengers boarding at Southampton. The filming began in May 1912, and the film premiered in August 1912. In Nacht und Eis (English: 'In Night and Ice'), also called Der Untergang der Titanic ('The Sinking of the Titanic') and Shipwrecked in Icebergs in the US, is a 1912 German adventure-disaster drama film about the sinking of RMS Titanic.

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