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The Sinking of the Laconiachevron_right
S01E01: Episode 1On the 12th September 1942 the Laconia - a cruise ship turned troop ship - was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-156 commanded by Werner Hartenstein. She carried a motley crew of women, children, wounded soldiers and Italian Prisoners of War. Having sunk the ship, Hartenstein should have left them to their uncertain fate in the water, but instead he made the incredible decision to save as many lives as he could. A true story of unexpected gallantry and humanity in the fog of war.
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Air Date:
Jan 06, 2011
Runtime:
90 minutes
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Casts:
Franka Potente, Ken Duken, Jacob Matschenz, Stefan Rudolf, Matthias Koeberlin, Frederick Lau, Andrew Buchan, Lindsay Duncan, Thomas Kretschmann, Jodi Balfour, Nikolai Kinski, Nicholas Burns, Brian Cox, Morven Christie, Ben Crompton, Ciarán McMenamin, David Butler, Paul Hilton, Lenny Wood, Matthew Aubrey, Ludovico Fremont, Louise Barnes, Josef du Plessis, Rebekah Nathan, Richard Firth, Tom Fairfoot, Lawrence Joffe, Jörg Malkow, Hermanus Pieters, Danny Keogh, James Alexander, Ian Van Der Heyden, Jannes Eiselen, Grant Swanby, Darron Meyer, Nicholas Pauling, Charlie Keegan, Justin Shaw, Marius Botha, Simon Verhoeven, Paul Savage
