Drama History War
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
Tom Wlaschiha
Bootsmann
Karl Markovics
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
Valerie Niehaus
Erika Galetschky
Detlev Buck
Hagen Koch
Dana Vávrová
Lilli Simoneit
Alexander Held
Ortsgruppenleiter Escher
Ulrike Kriener
Erikas Vorgesetzte
Thorsten Nindel
Leutnant Lehmann
Heiner Lauterbach
Harald Kehding
Kai Wiesinger
Hellmut Kehding
Michael Mendl
Kapitän Wilhelm Johannsen
Francis Fulton-Smith
Korvettenkapitän Leonberg
Anja Knauer
Marianne Erdmann
Maria Mägdefrau
alte Frau
Christine Adler
Führerin
Stefan Becker
Fähnrich
Martin Bross
Ältester Matrose
Nina Mölleken
Flüchtlingskind
Sandra Banthorpe

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