
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'

Lieutenant Werner

Chief Engineer

First Watch Officer

Second Watch Officer

Kriechbaum

Johann 'Das Gespenst'

Ullmann

Hinrich
In many ways, this reminded me of "Aces High" (1976). An example of young, barely pubescent, men sent to a war that would test their mettle to the extreme as they lived each day, perilously, as it came. This time, these young men are encased in a few hundred tons of creaking metal submarine and are tasked with harrying the Allied convoys travelling to and from the UK as World War II continued. The crew are led by an unorthodox captain (Jürgen Prochnow) and with the combination of underwater claustrophobia and paranoia now coupled with far more effective protection tactics from their enemy, the...
Status Released
Original LanguageGerman
Budget$14,000,000.00
Revenue $85,000,000.00