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
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
Stefan Becker
as Fähnrich
Martin Bross
as Ältester Matrose
