M/S Gustloff (2008)
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.
- First aired
- 2008-02-03
- Seasons
- 1 (2 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Joseph Vilsmaier, Rainer Berg
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
- Nicolas Solar Lozier as Heinz Schön
- Dana Vávrová as Lilli Simoneit
- Willi Gerk as Kalli Simoneit
- Anja Knauer as Marianne