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
After an attack on a British merchant ship in May 1942, during the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer. With all of her engineers and machinists killed in a flash fire, the sub's commander Kapitänleutnant Günther Wassner transmits a distress call.
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| 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 | abandon battle of the atlantic bilge capture commanding officer depth charge destroyer disabled distress call enigma machine explosives expert flood flying boat force german destroyer german world war ii destroyers kill land's end lieutenant lieutenant commander morse code naval intelligence pby catalina report rescue 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 |