TV series
Hostages of the SS
2015, German, on ARTE.
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…
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 2
- Episode length
- 52 min
- Status
- Ended in 2015
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Latest episode
S1 E2: Episode 2
Aired 7 April 2015
Seasons 1
Cast & crew
- Tim BergmannBogislav von Bonin · 2 ep
- Isabelle BarthIngeborg Schroeder · 2 ep
- Torsten MünchowGaribaldi · 2 ep
- Martin ThalerKurt von Schuschnigg · 2 ep
- Marc BenjaminJimmy James · 2 ep
- Uwe BohmBader · 2 ep
- Henriette SchmidtFey von Hassel · 2 ep
- Xenia BenevolenskayaBenigna Goerdeler · 2 ep
- Tomas SpencerFey von Hassel · 2 ep
- Gerhard WittmannStiller · 2 ep
- Anastasia C. ZanderSybille-Maria Schröder · 2 ep
- Caroline HeberlingJutta Goerdeler · 2 ep
Details
- First aired
- 7 April 2015
- Last aired
- 7 April 2015
- Network
- ARTE
- Original title
- Wir Geiseln der SS
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Type
- Miniseries
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Hostages of the SS has 1 season and 2 episodes, about 52 minutes each.
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