Hostages of the 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…
Cast
Tim Bergmann
Bogislav von Bonin
Isabelle Barth
Ingeborg Schroeder
Torsten Münchow
Garibaldi
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
Gerhard Wittmann
Stiller
Anastasia C. Zander
Sybille-Maria Schröder
Caroline Heberling
Jutta Goerdeler
Ricardo Angelini
Enrico Salvatore
Rainer Frank
Wichard von Alvesleben
Georg Laberger
SS-Soldat
Storyline
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…
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