Baltic Storm (2003)A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned. Director:Reuben Leder |
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Baltic Storm (2003)A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned. Director:Reuben Leder |
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| Greta Scacchi | ... |
Julia Reuter
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| Jürgen Prochnow | ... | ||
| Donald Sutherland | ... |
Lou Aldryn
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| Dieter Laser | ... |
Gehrig
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Jürgen Schornagel | ... |
Jan Peters
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Barbara Schöne | ... |
Ingrid Peters
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Rein Oja | ... |
Captain Arvo Kallas
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| Herb Andress | ... |
Juri Roos
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Birgit Stein | ... |
Tiina Ronk
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| Thure Riefenstein | ... |
Mika Galt
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| Francis Fulton-Smith | ... |
Markus Dackel
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Jürgen Tarrach | ... |
Gregor Karpatitsch
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| Andreas Günther | ... |
Rock Weber
(as Andreas Guenther)
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Patrizia Moresco | ... |
Elke Groat
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Michael Schreiner | ... |
Dr. Sergei Raspoff
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During the night of 27th to 28th September 1994, the Swedish-Estonian ferry ESTONIA sank in the middle of the Baltic Sea. 852 people lost their lives, only 145 were saved. Until today this has remained the biggest shipping catastrophe in European waters since the end of World War II. JULIA REUTER, a journalist with a leading German television magazine in Berlin, is trying to get a scoop on military black market arms trafficking from Russia. Her investigations lead her to Tallinn in Estonia, where on the evening of September 27, 1994 she misses the ferry ESTONIA, by mere minutes. One of the vehicles on the ship is a truck loaded with high-tech weapons. ERIK WESTERMARK is a Swedish lawyer, who is coming from a sailing trip along the Estonian coast with his 10-year-old son. They were setting off for the return trip back home to Sweden, aboard the ESTONIA. But the ferry doesn't make her port of call. She sinks in the midst of the cold Baltic Sea. Erik Westermark is among the rescued. The ... Written by TOP STORY Filmproduction GmbH
In 1994, the passenger ferry "Estonia" sank in the waters of the North Sea on a journey from Tallin, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden. The disaster was quickly ruled to be the result of natural causes. However, a German journalist spent the next ten years investigating the tragedy, and came up with evidence that the ship was carrying arms and contraband from the remains of the former USSR to the black market in Stockholm. The movie chronicles this reporter's quest for the truth. Greta Scacchi brings heart and guts to her performance as the journalist, and Jurgen Prochnow delivers a poignant portrayal of a survivor of the tragedy united with the reporter as they search for answers. Donald Sutherland plays a mysterious puppeteer who perhaps has all the answers. The film is tense, emotional, beautifully shot -- a gripping political thriller.