Die Gustloff
Ship of No Return
Joseph Vilsmaier's 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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Screenplay
Cast
Kai Wiesinger
Hellmut Kehding
Valerie Niehaus
Erika Galetschky
Heiner Lauterbach
Harald Kehding
Dana Vávrová
Lilli Simoneit
Michael Mendl
Kapitän Johannsen
Karl Markovics
Korvettenkapitän Petri
Francis Fulton-Smith
Korvettenkapitän Leonberg
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Nicolas Solar Lozier
Heinz Schön
Detlev Buck
Hagen Koch
Ulrike Kriener
Berta Burkat
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Christian Heyne
Composer
Jörg Widmer
Cinematographer