The Sailor’s Song

Movie

The Sailor’s Song

History

Drama

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.

Date: 11/09/1958

Rating: 6.5

Cast: Günther Simon, Raimund Schelcher, Ulrich Thein, Horst Kube, Hilmar Thate, Ekkehard Schall, Wolf von Beneckendorff, Eduard von Winterstein, Werner Wieland, Jochen Thomas, Sabine Thalbach, Horst Schönemann, Rolf Römer, Hans Wolf Rentzow, Elfriede Née, Peter Kiwitt, Wolfgang Langhoff, Stefan Lisewski, Rita Gödikmeier, Vladimir Gulyaev, Hans Finohr, Adolf Peter Hoffmann, Wolfgang Brunecker, Walter E. Fuß, Werner Lierck, Fred Düren, Willi Neuenhahn, Kurt Wenkhaus, Monika Lennartz, Kay Sikor, Manfred Müller, Karl Brenk, Kurt Steingraf, Senta Bonacker, Max Klingberg, Siegfried Weiß, Yuri Mikhajlov, Christoph Beyertt, Heinz Kögel, Helmut Schreiber, Günther Grabbert, Johannes Wieke, Dom de Beern, Horst Lommatzsch, Karl Heinz Oppel, Gabriele Hoffmann, Werner Senftleben, Peter A. Stiege, Hans-Hartmut Krüger, Klaus Gendries, Theresia Wider, Karin Buchali, Horst Buder, Jean Brahn, Paul Funk, Hans Feldner, Karl Sturm, Nico Turoff, Rolf Ripperger, Georg Helge, Fred Ludwig, Fred Delmare, Klaus Bamberg, Reinhard Michalke, Peter Dommisch, Alexander Papendiek, Kurt Rackelmann, Erich Fritze, Maria Besendahl, Carola Braunbock, Liselott Baumgarten, Fritz Mohr

Günther Simon