Hostages of the SS backdrop

Hostages of the SS 2015 Directed by Christian Frey , Carsten Gutschmidt Wir Geiseln der SS

April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…

Country Germany
Production Country Germany
Language German
Spoken Languages French , German
Gneres Drama , History , War
Production Companies ZDF , ORF , Beetz Brothers Film Production , nordmedia
Release Date 7 April 2015
Cast
Tim Bergmann Bogislav von Bonin
Isabelle Barth Ingeborg Schroeder
Martin Thaler Kurt von Schuschnigg
Marc Benjamin Jimmy James
Uwe Bohm Bader
Henriette Schmidt Fey von Hassel
Xenia Benevolenskaya Benigna Goerdeler
Tomas Spencer Fey von Hassel
Anastasia C. Zander Sybille-Maria Schröder
Caroline Heberling Jutta Goerdeler
Ricardo Angelini Enrico Salvatore
Rainer Frank Wichard von Alvesleben
Georg Laberger SS-Soldat
Sina Reiß Isa Vermehren
Philipp M. Franck Hans-Dieter Schröder
Martin Liema Hermann
Tom Kreß SS Scherge Nowak
Markus Langer Scherge Walter