
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.

as Captain Gustav Schröder

as Martha Stern

as Officer Klaus Ostermeyer

as Otto Hendrich

as Walter Stern

as Karl Pollock

as Dr. Josef Joseph

as Robert Hoffmann

as Leo Stern

as Elise Loewe

as Dr. Max Loewe

as Male German Customs Officer

as Female German Customs Officer

as Fat Boy

as Steward

as Radio Operator

as Ignaz Karliner

as Cuban Officer

as Self

as Self

as Self

as Self