Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestWilhelm Gustloff leaves the harbor in Danzig with 10,000 refugees. In the cold water awaits a Soviet submarine.
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.
Kai Wiesinger
Kapitän Hellmuth Kehding
Heiner Lauterbach
Harald Kehding
Michael Mendl
Wilhelm Johannsen
Francis Fulton-Smith
Korvettenkapitän Leonberg
Karl Markovics
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
Valerie Niehaus
Erika Galetschky
Detlev Buck
Oberfunkmaat Hagen Koch
Alexander Held
Escher
Dana Vávrová
Lilli Simoneit
Willi Gerk
Kalli Simoneit
Anja Knauer
Marianne
Ulrike Kriener
Erikas Chef
Thorsten Nindel
Leutnant Lehmann
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