
Plot
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.
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Cast

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

Stefan Becker
Fähnrich

Martin Bross
Ältester Matrose

Christine Adler
Führerin

Anja Knauer
Marianne Erdmann

Maria Mägdefrau
alte Frau

Nina Mölleken
Flüchtlingskind

Thorsten Nindel
Leutnant Lehmann

Tom Wlaschiha
Bootsmann