SINOPSIS
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 ...
- Greta ScacchiJulia Reuter
- Jürgen ProchnowErik Westermark
- Donald SutherlandLou Aldryn
- Dieter LaserGehrig
- Jürgen SchornagelHerr Ecker
- Barbara SchöneIngrid Peters
- Rein OjaCaptain Arvo Kallas
- Herb AndressJuri Roos
- Birgit SteinTiina Ronk
- Thure RiefensteinMika Galt
- Francis Fulton-SmithMarkus Dackel
- Jürgen TarrachGregor Karpatitsch
- Andreas GuentherRock Weber
- Patrizia MorescoElke Groat
- Michael SchreinerDr. Sergei Raspoff
- Jens NeuhausIvo Varres
- Detlef BotheVictor Renko
- Wolf-Dietrich BergCaptain Valme
- Suzanne von BorsodyMs. Sundwall
- Axel MilbergOvaska
- Sissi PerlingerRoos' Secretary
- Yoshij GrimmMax Westermark
- Cort Kibler-MelbyDanny Reuter
- Peter Gilbert CottonGuy Reuter
- Gitte HænningLou Aldryn's wife