M/S Gustloff (2008)
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
Cast
- Kai Wiesinger — Kapitän Hellmuth Kehding
- Heiner Lauterbach — Harald Kehding
- Michael Mendl — Wilhelm Johannsen
- Francis Fulton-Smith — Korvettenkapitän Leonberg
- Karl Markovics — Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
- Valerie Niehaus — Erika Galetschky
- Detlev Buck — Oberfunkmaat Hagen Koch
- Alexander Held — Escher
- Nicolas Solar Lozier — Heinz Schön
- Dana Vávrová — Lilli Simoneit
- Willi Gerk — Kalli Simoneit
- Anja Knauer — Marianne
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