Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 150 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- submarine
- war correspondent
- atlantic ocean
- gibraltar
- world war ii
- duty
- suicide mission
- drinking
- sailor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jürgen Prochnow
Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
Herbert Grönemeyer
Lieutenant Werner
Klaus Wennemann
Chief Engineer
Hubertus Bengsch
First Watch Officer
- Martin Semmelrogge — Second Watch Officer
- Bernd Tauber — Kriechbaum
- Erwin Leder — Johann 'Das Gespenst'
- Martin May — Ullmann
- Heinz Hoenig — Hinrich
- Uwe Ochsenknecht — Chief Bosun
- Claude-Oliver Rudolph — Ario
- Jan Fedder — Pilgrim
- Rita Cadillac — Monique
- Ralf Richter — Frenssen
- Joachim Bernhard — Preacher
- Directed
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Written
- Wolfgang Petersen, Dean Riesner
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 2,620 ratings
- Studio
- Radiant Film, Bavaria Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
