
M/S Gustloff
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.
Release Date: 2008-03-02
Drama
History
War
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Casts

Kai Wiesinger
as Hellmut Kehding

Valerie Niehaus
as Erika Galetschky

Heiner Lauterbach
as Harald Kehding

Dana Vávrová
as Lilli Simoneit

Detlev Buck
as Hagen Koch

Michael Mendl
as Kapitän Wilhelm Johannsen

Francis Fulton-Smith
as Korvettenkapitän Leonberg

Karl Markovics
as Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri

Alexander Held
as Ortsgruppenleiter Escher

Ulrike Kriener
as Erikas Vorgesetzte