Season 1 · Episode 1 of 2
On 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.
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
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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
