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BERLIN -- A big-budgeted TV event movie about the doomed flight of the Hindenburg is taking flight in Germany with an international cast that includes Stacy Keach, Greta Scacchi and Lauren Lee Smith ("CSI").

Based on a script by Philip LaZebnik ("Mulan") and directed by Philipp Kadelbach, the two-parter chronicles the doomed 1937 transatlantic voyage of the giant airship.

Smith stars as a U.S. congressman's daughter, who is involved with the Zeppelin's young German engineer (Maximilian Simonischek).

Berlin-based TeamWorx, RTL Television and EOS Entertainment are co-producing the Euros 10 million ($14.7 million) movie with financing from regional funders FFF Bayern and Filmstiftung NRW.

Heiner Lauterbach, Ulrich Noethen, Christiane Paul and Hannes Jaenicke also star.

"Hindenburg" is scheduled to air on RTL in early 2011.