M/S Gustloff
movie
Ship of No Return
Released March 02, 2008
Overview
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.
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
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Stefan Becker
as
Fähnrich
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Martin Bross
as
Ältester Matrose
Crew
Joseph Vilsmaier
as
Director
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Christian Heyne
as
Original Music Composer
Jörg Widmer
as
Director of Photography
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Heiner Niehues
as
Makeup Supervisor
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Edgar Konkoll
as
Painter
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Marcus Berndt
as
Property Master
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Joey Weber
as
Property Master
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Falk Schwalbe
as
Continuity
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Arndt Kühne
as
Set Dresser
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Olivia Vossenkuhl
as
Assistant Costume Designer
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Julia Brandes
as
Assistant Costume Designer
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Thomas Pilzecker
as
Painter