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Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell (1979)
Directed by Christa Mühl
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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Dieter Mann | Swetlana Schönfeld | Walfriede Schmitt | Ekkehard Schall | Jutta Hoffmann | Kurt Böwe | Jaecki Schwarz | Helga Göring | Manja Göring | Horst Rehberg | Wolfgang Heinz | Peter Aust | Petra Barthel | Hans Klering | Horst Hiemer | Wolfgang Lohse | Willi Neuenhahn | Berndt Renné | Hans Joachim Preil | Rolf Ludwig | Monica Bielenstein | Margitta Lüder-Preil | Annemone Haase | Werner Dissel | Horst Giese | Jochen Diestelmann | Karl-Heinz Danowski | Klaus Ebeling | Lutz Riemann | Gerd Staiger | Peter Tepper