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The Danube is a river that runs through Central Europe, crossing through several countries including Austria, Budapest, Bulgaria, Germany, Romania and the Ukraine. It is the second longest international waterway in Europe after the Volga.

2001: A Space Odyssey
In Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1968 classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Johann Strauss's An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube) is played when Heywood R. Floyd is taking a shuttle to the moon. The same piece of music is also heard in the parody film 2001: A Space Travesty during Richard Dix's shuttle journey to the Vegan station on the moon.

Dracula
In Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the character of Elisabeta - wife of Prince Vlad III, commits suicide by leaping from the window of Castle Dracula into the river below. Though it is never identified as the Danube in the film, it is safe to assume that this is the river in question. The Danube is also referenced in the original novel, Dracula.

Suicide is the willful act of taking one's own life. In film, characters may commit suicide for any number of reasons ranging from terminal illness, depression, impending trauma, or even to prevent one's self from being turned into a zombie! Suicide is different from self sacrifice, which is where a character allows themselves to die in order to facilitate a greater good, whether that be protecting a loved one, saving a military unit, or defending the entire planet.