M/S Gustloff

• 5.917 Drama
• 2008-03-02
• 184 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Kai Wiesinger (Hellmut Kehding) Valerie Niehaus (Erika Galetschky) Heiner Lauterbach (Harald Kehding) Dana Vávrová (Lilli Simoneit) Detlev Buck (Hagen Koch) Michael Mendl (Kapitän Wilhelm Johannsen) Francis Fulton-Smith (Korvettenkapitän Leonberg) Karl Markovics (Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri) Alexander Held (Ortsgruppenleiter Escher) Ulrike Kriener (Erikas Vorgesetzte)

Director:

Joseph Vilsmaier

Writer:

Rainer Berg