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Overview
The "Astoria", an English luxury liner, collides with a freighter shortly before the end of its voyage and threatens to sink. Captain Mitchell, successful and envied, sets in motion an expensive rescue operation. He manages to avert a catastrophe and bring the passengers and the ship to safety. But the shipowner considers the operation excessive, calls Mitchell a coward and fires him. His career seems to be over. When his friends and his fiancée also make fun of him, he devises a cunning plan of revenge.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 23, 1979
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
- Production
- DEFA,Fernsehen der DDR,DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
- Cast
- Kurt Böwe,Gerd Staiger,Werner Dissel,Petra Barthel,Hans Klering,Margitta Lüder-Preil,Horst Giese,Helga Göring,Swetlana Schönfeld,Klaus Ebelingand 21 more
- Director
- Christa Mühl
- Cinematography
- Peter Brand
- Music
- Wolfram Heicking
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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