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M/S Gustloff
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 and cast
- Joseph Vilsmaier Director
- 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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