Release Date
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Original Release
March 2, 2008
3h 4m
M/S Gustloff (2008)
â 5.9184 min
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.
Director
Joseph Vilsmaier
Department: Directing
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Cast
Kai Wiesinger
Hellmut Kehding
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Valerie Niehaus
Erika Galetschky
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Heiner Lauterbach
Harald Kehding
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Dana VĂĄvrovĂĄ
Lilli Simoneit
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Detlev Buck
Hagen Koch
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Michael Mendl
KapitÀn Wilhelm Johannsen
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Francis Fulton-Smith
KorvettenkapitÀn Leonberg
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Karl Markovics
KorvettenkapitÀn Wilhelm Petri
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Alexander Held
Ortsgruppenleiter Escher
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Ulrike Kriener
Erikas Vorgesetzte
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Genres
DramaHistoryWar
Production Companies
UFA Filmproduktion GmbH
ZDF
