
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.

as Kapitän Hellmuth Kehding

as Harald Kehding

as Wilhelm Johannsen

as Korvettenkapitän Leonberg

as Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri

as Erika Galetschky

as Oberfunkmaat Hagen Koch

as Escher

as Heinz Schön

as Lilli Simoneit

as Kalli Simoneit

as Marianne

as Erikas Chef

as Sterup

as Leutnant Lehmann