Die Gustloff

2008    3h 4m
5.859%
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.
Directed By
Joseph Vilsmaier
Written By
Rainer Berg
Studio
UFA Filmproduktion GmbH, ZDF

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Cast of Die Gustloff
  • Kai WiesingerHellmut Kehding
  • Valerie NiehausErika Galetschky
  • Heiner LauterbachHarald Kehding
  • Dana VávrováLilli Simoneit
  • Detlev BuckHagen Koch
  • Michael MendlKapitän Wilhelm Johannsen
  • Francis Fulton-SmithKorvettenkapitän Leonberg
  • Karl MarkovicsKorvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
  • Alexander HeldOrtsgruppenleiter Escher
  • Ulrike KrienerErikas Vorgesetzte
  • Stefan BeckerFähnrich
  • Martin BrossÄltester Matrose
  • Christine AdlerFührerin
  • Anja KnauerMarianne Erdmann
  • Maria Mägdefraualte Frau
  • Nina MöllekenFlüchtlingskind
  • Thorsten NindelLeutnant Lehmann
  • Tom WlaschihaBootsmann

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