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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.