M/S Gustloff

M/S Gustloff

184 mins | Drama, War, History | March 2, 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.

M/S Gustloff

184 mins | Drama, War, History | March 2, 2008

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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers UFA Filmproduktion GmbH, ZDF
Original title Die Gustloff
Directors Jens Höhne, Falk Schwalbe, Marek Juráček, Gabriele Mattner, Joseph Vilsmaier
Writers Rainer Berg

Cast

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

Stefan Becker

as Fähnrich

Martin Bross

as Ältester Matrose

Christine Adler

as Führerin

Anja Knauer

as Marianne Erdmann

Maria Mägdefrau

as alte Frau

Nina Mölleken

as Flüchtlingskind

Thorsten Nindel

as Leutnant Lehmann

Tom Wlaschiha

as Bootsmann