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.
based on novel or book
holocaust (shoah)
jew persecution
based on true story
antisemitism
based on memoir or autobiography
docudrama
hamburg, germany
havana, cuba
boat captain
eve of world war ii