Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.
Ulrich Noethen
as Captain Gustav Schröder
Britta Hammelstein
as Martha Stern
Johannes Kienast
as Officer Klaus Ostermeyer
Florian Panzner
as Otto Hendrich
Golo Euler
as Walter Stern
Attila Borlan
as Karl Pollock
Virgílio Castelo
as Dr. Josef Joseph
Luís Esparteiro
as Robert Hoffmann
Elgar do Rosário
as Leo Stern
Gabriela Barros
as Elise Loewe
Pedro Lacerda
as Dr. Max Loewe
João Craveiro
as Male German Customs Officer
