The Sinking of the Laconia

The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

Drama War & Politics

Franka Potente

(Hilda Smith)

Ken Duken

(Werner Hartenstein)

Jacob Matschenz

(Mannesmann)

Stefan Rudolf

(Remmert)

Matthias Koeberlin

(Rostau)

Frederick Lau

(Fiedler)

Andrew Buchan

(Thomas Mortimer)

Lindsay Duncan

(Elisabeth Fullwood)

Thomas Kretschmann

(Karl Dönitz)

Jodi Balfour

(Sarah Fullwood)

Nikolai Kinski

(Walter Drexler)

Nicholas Burns

(Benjamin Coutts)

Brian Cox

(Captain Sharp)

Morven Christie

(Laura Ferguson)

Ben Crompton

(Harry Townes)

Ciarán McMenamin

(Declan McDermott)

David Butler

(George Steel)

Paul Hilton

(Henry Bates)

Lenny Wood

(Billy Hardacre)

Matthew Aubrey

(William Williams)

Ludovico Fremont

(Di Giovanni)

Louise Barnes

(Mary Bates)

Josef du Plessis

(Anthony Bates)

Rebekah Nathan

(Charlotte Bates)

Richard Firth

(Quartermaster)

Tom Fairfoot

(Wireless Operator, RMS Laconia)

Lawrence Joffe

(Rudzinski)

Jörg Malkow

(Weber)

Hermanus Pieters

(Dengler)

Danny Keogh

(Captain Hathaway)

James Alexander

(Lieutenant Lincoln)

Ian Van Der Heyden

(Lieutenant Jackson)

Jannes Eiselen

(Captain Richardson)

Grant Swanby

(Colonel Ronin)

Darron Meyer

(Harrower)

Nicholas Pauling

(Perlman)

Charlie Keegan

(Ches)

Justin Shaw

(Chuck Bannister)

Marius Botha

(Coleman)

Simon Verhoeven

(Harro Schacht)

Paul Savage

(Customs Officer)