The read
It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
9 audience votes
Key crew
- André FeldhausOriginal Music Composer
- Ben von GrafensteinDirector
- Susanne BeckWriter
- Thomas EiflerWriter
Cast
- Ulrich NoethenCaptain Gustav Schröder
- Britta HammelsteinMartha Stern
- Johannes KienastOfficer Klaus Ostermeyer
- Florian PanznerOtto Hendrich
- Golo EulerWalter Stern
- Attila BorlanKarl Pollock
- Virgílio CasteloDr. Josef Joseph
- Luís EsparteiroRobert Hoffmann
- Elgar do RosárioLeo Stern
- Gabriela BarrosElise Loewe
- Pedro LacerdaDr. Max Loewe
- João CraveiroMale German Customs Officer
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookholocaust (shoah)jew persecutionbased on true storyantisemitismbased on memoir or autobiographydocudramahamburg, germanyhavana, cubaboat captaineve of world war ii