U-571
U-571 is a 2000 submarine film directed by Jonathan Mostow from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Montgomery and David Ayer. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber and Matthew Settle. The film follows a World War II German U-boat boarded by American submariners to capture her Enigma cipher machine.
Plot
In May 1942, during the Battle of the Atlantic, after sinking a British merchant ship, German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer, with all of her engineers and mechanics killed in a flash fire. U-571 skipper Kapitänleutnant Günther Wassner makes a distress call that is intercepted by Allied intelligence.
More details
| author | David Ayer Jonathan Mostow Sam Montgomery |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Atlantic Ocean |
| director | Jonathan Mostow |
| editor | Wayne Wahrman |
| events | submarine warfare World War II |
| genre | action drama |
| keywords | battle of the atlantic bilge capture commanding officer depth charge destroyer disabled distress call enigma machine flood flying boat force german destroyer german world war ii destroyers kill land's end lieutenant lieutenant commander load morse code naval intelligence pby catalina report tap out u-boat us navy world war i wound |
| musicBy | Richard Marvin |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound |
| producer | Dino De Laurentiis Martha De Laurentiis |
| productionCompany | Canal+ Image Dino De Laurentiis Company |
| recordedAt | Russia San Francisco |
| theme | submarine war |