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A star-studded cast feature in this big-screen dramatisation of a tragic true life story. In May 1937, 137 Jewish refugees are permitted to leave Nazi Germany on the luxury liner S.S. St Louis, bound for Cuba. However, unbeknownst to the ship's captain, Gustav Schroeder (Max Von Sydow), Goebbels has already arranged with the president of Cuba that the passengers' landing permits are to be treated as invalid, forcing them to return to Germany - and certain death. Faye Dunaway, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles and James Mason star.