Hostages of the SS
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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…
Status: Released
Released Date: 2015-04-07
Runtime: 0 mins
Director: Christian Frey, Carsten Gutschmidt
Spoken language: Français, Deutsch
Genres: Drama, History, War
Original title: Hostages of the SS
Production Companies: Beetz Brothers Film Production, ZDF, ORF, nordmedia
Production Countries: Germany
Cast
Tim Bergmann
Isabelle Barth
Torsten Münchow
Martin Thaler
Marc Benjamin
Uwe Bohm
Henriette Schmidt
Xenia Benevolenskaya
Tomas Spencer
Gerhard Wittmann
Anastasia C. Zander
Caroline Heberling
Ricardo Angelini
Rainer Frank
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