Die Gustloff
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Elaborately produced two-part TV movie about the tragic torpedo attack by the Red Army on the German refugee ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" in 1945: From the perspective of (fictional) Captain Kehding, Joseph Vilsmaier′s film tells the story how the ship started its journey in Gotenhafen with 10.000 passengers on board. After a disagreement between the ship′s captains, the ship′s navigation lights were activated on January 30, 1945, after a suspicious radio signal had warned them of oncoming traffic – a fatal decision because soon after the "Gustloff" was hit by three torpedoes from a Soviet submarine. The ship capsized, and 9000 people, among them countless children, died in the catastrophe.
Credits
| Director: | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| Screenplay: | Rainer Berg |
| Director of photography: | Jörg Widmer |
| Editing: | Dirk Grau |
| Music: | Christian Heyne |
| Cast: | |
| Kai Wiesinger | Kapitän Hellmut Kehding |
| Valerie Niehaus | Erika Galetschky |
| Heiner Lauterbach | Harald Kehding |
| Dana Vávrová | Lilly Simoneit |
| Michael Mendl | Kapitän Johannsen |
| Karl Markovics | Korvettenkapitän Petri |
| Francis Fulton-Smith | Korvettenkapitän Leonberg |
| Detlev Buck | Hagen Koch |
| Willi Gerk | Kalli Simoneit |
| Anja Knauer | Marianne Erdmann |
| Production company: | UFA-Fernsehproduktion GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg) |
| Producer: | Norbert Sauer |
All Credits
| Director: | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| Assistant director: | Marek Juráček |
| Script supervisor: | Gabriele Mattner |
| Screenplay: | Rainer Berg |
| Director of photography: | Jörg Widmer |
| Assistant camera: | Jakob von Lenthe, Andrea Theis |
| 2nd Camera unit: | Helmfried Kober |
| Optical effects: | Christoph Hierl |
| Lighting design: | Reinhold Maul |
| Key grip: | Olaf Hübner |
| Set design: | Lothar Holler (Szenenbild), Joris Hamann (Art Director) |
| Property master: | Marcus Berndt |
| Stand-by props: | Wolfgang Stadler |
| Costume design: | Natascha Curtius-Noss |
| Make-up artist: | Heiner Niehues, Christine Krebs |
| Editing: | Dirk Grau |
| Sound: | Eric Rueff |
| Sound assistant: | Matthias Pamperin |
| Music: | Christian Heyne |
| Cast: | |
| Kai Wiesinger | Kapitän Hellmut Kehding |
| Valerie Niehaus | Erika Galetschky |
| Heiner Lauterbach | Harald Kehding |
| Dana Vávrová | Lilly Simoneit |
| Michael Mendl | Kapitän Johannsen |
| Karl Markovics | Korvettenkapitän Petri |
| Francis Fulton-Smith | Korvettenkapitän Leonberg |
| Detlev Buck | Hagen Koch |
| Willi Gerk | Kalli Simoneit |
| Anja Knauer | Marianne Erdmann |
| Production company: | UFA-Fernsehproduktion GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg) |
| in co-production with: | ZDF Enterprises GmbH (Köln) |
| Commissioned by: | Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz) |
| Producer: | Norbert Sauer |
| Producer (TV): | Klaus Bassiner, Elke Müller |
| Producer: | Cornelia Wecker |
| Line producer: | Michael Wintzer |
| Unit production manager: | Frank Mähr |
| Location manager: | Henning Falk |
| Shoot: | : Stralsund, Leipzig, Berlin, Köln, Malta, Hamburg, Peenemünde |
| Funding: | Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBBB) (Potsdam), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) (Leipzig) |
| Length: | 185 min |
| Format: | 16:9 |
| Picture/Sound: | Farbe + s/w, Dolby |
| Screening: | TV-Erstsendung (DE): 02.03.2008, ZDF [1. Teil]; TV-Erstsendung (DE): 03.03.2008, ZDF [2. Teil] |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Die Gustloff |
| Arbeitstitel (DE) Hafen der Hoffnung - Die letzte Fahrt der Wilhelm Gustloff |
| Untertitel (DE) 1. Teil: Hafen der Hoffnung |
| Untertitel (DE) 2. Teil: Flucht über die Ostsee |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 185 min |
| Format: | 16:9 |
| Picture/Sound: | Farbe + s/w, Dolby |
| Screening: | TV-Erstsendung (DE): 02.03.2008, ZDF [1. Teil]; TV-Erstsendung (DE): 03.03.2008, ZDF [2. Teil] |
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