M/S Gustloff

Name: M/S Gustloff
Cast: Kai Wiesinger, Heiner Lauterbach, Michael Mendl, Francis Fulton-Smith, Karl Markovics

1h 30m1 Season

GermanEnded

1 · Harbor of Hope

2 · Escape over Baltic Sea

Crew and Cast

Joseph VilsmaierCreator

Rainer BergCreator

Kai WiesingerKapitän Hellmuth Kehding

Heiner LauterbachHarald Kehding

Michael MendlWilhelm Johannsen

Francis Fulton-SmithKorvettenkapitän Leonberg

Karl MarkovicsKorvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri

Valerie NiehausErika Galetschky

Detlev BuckOberfunkmaat Hagen Koch

Alexander HeldEscher

Nicolas Solar LozierHeinz Schön

Dana VávrováLilli Simoneit

Willi GerkKalli Simoneit

Anja KnauerMarianne

Ulrike KrienerErikas Chef

Thomas WlaschihaSterup

Thorsten NindelLeutnant Lehmann

Storyline

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.