Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1959)

Original title

Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen

Directed by

Frank Wisbar

Genre

disaster film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells the story of the sinking of a ship carrying German soldiers and civilian evacuees during World War Two. It focuses on the disaster and the people involved.

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What happens

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (German: Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen) is a 1960 German war drama film, directed by Frank Wisbar. It dramatizes the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which was sunk while carrying German servicemen and around 6,000 civilian evacuees. Heinz Schön presents the combined death toll as 9,343. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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