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Year: 2010
Genre: Drama
Channel: BBC2
Series: 1
Episodes available: 2
Available from: 15 Jun 2022
Removed: 30 Jun 2023

On the September 12th, 1942 the Laconia was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-156 commanded by Werner Hartenstein, who then mounted an extradentary rescue operation to rescue the allied survivors.

Cast and Crew

Director: Uwe Janson
Cast: Andrew Buchan, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Thomas Kretschmann, Franka Potente, Jodi Balfour, Nicholas Burns, Jacob Matschenz, Ciarán McMenamin, Matthias Koeberlin, Frederick Lau, Ludovico Fremont, Lenny Wood, Ben Crompton, Jörg Malchow, Oskar Brown, Matthew Aubrey, Hermanus Pieters, Paul Hilton, Stefan Rudolf, Simon Verhoeven, Josef Du Plessis, Nikolai Kinski, Rebekah Nathan, Tom Fairfoot, Christian Serritiello, Brian Cox, Morven Christie, David Butler, Louise Barnes, Danny Keogh, James Gracie, Ian Van Der Heyden, Jannes Eiselen, Richard Wright-Firth, Grant Swanby, Darron Meyer, Nicholas Pauling, Paul Savage, Lawrence Joffe, Charlie Keegan, Justin Shaw, Marius Botha, Patrick Lyster
Writer: Alan Bleasdale

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