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.

Created by Joseph Vilsmaier, Rainer Berg

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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

Ulrike Kriener

Erikas Chef

Thomas Wlaschiha

Sterup

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