The Sailor’s Song
125 mins
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Ekkehard Schall
Eberhard Schuckert
Wolf von Beneckendorff
Von Resten
Werner Wieland
Noske
Hans Wolf Rentzow
Fliegermaat Krüger
Elfriede Née
Berta König
Rita Gödikmeier
Anna
Hans Finohr
Schröder
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Gollwitz
Wolfgang Brunecker
Deck Officer
Walter E. Fuß
Anton
Willi Neuenhahn
Brox
Kurt Wenkhaus
Prince Heinrich
Kay Sikor
Adjutant
Manfred Müller
Fähnrich
Kurt Steingraf
von Scheer
Senta Bonacker
Business owner
Max Klingberg
Sergeant
Siegfried Weiß
Hauptmann
Yuri Mikhajlov
Kommissar
Heinz Kögel
Captain
Dom de Beern
Reichpietsch
Horst Lommatzsch
Captain
Gabriele Hoffmann
Easy girl
Peter A. Stiege
officer
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
officer
Theresia Wider
Officer's bride
Karin Buchali
Officer's bride
Jean Brahn
soldier
Paul Funk
soldier
Hans Feldner
soldier
Rolf Ripperger
sailor
Georg Helge
sailor
Fred Ludwig
sailor
Klaus Bamberg
sailor
Alexander Papendiek
sailor
Erich Fritze
superintendent
Carola Braunbock
lady
Fritz Mohr
Worker
Lena Neumann
Editor
Paul Wiens
Writer
Wilhelm Neef
Music
Karl Georg Egel
Writer
Rosemarie Wandelt
Costume Design
Gerhard Helwig
Art Direction
Elli-Charlotte Löffler
Costume Design
Johanna Lindner
Sound
Kurt Eppers
Sound
Otto Merz
Director of Photography