M/S Gustloff
tv show

2 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired February 03, 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
Kapitän Hellmuth Kehding

Heiner Lauterbach
as
Harald Kehding

Michael Mendl
as
Wilhelm Johannsen

Francis Fulton-Smith
as
Korvettenkapitän Leonberg

Karl Markovics
as
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri

Valerie Niehaus
as
Erika Galetschky

Detlev Buck
as
Oberfunkmaat Hagen Koch

Alexander Held
as
Escher
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Nicolas Solar Lozier
as
Heinz Schön

Dana Vávrová
as
Lilli Simoneit

Willi Gerk
as
Kalli Simoneit

Anja Knauer
as
Marianne
Crew
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