The Sinking of the Laconia (2011)

Directors

Uwe Janson

Cast

Andrew Buchan, Brian Cox, Franka Potente, Frederick Lau, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Ludovico Fremont, Matthias Koeberlin, Morven Christie, Thomas Kretschmann

The story

thumb|left|150px|Badge of the 1921 Cunard liner Laconia In September 1942, 650 nautical miles west of Africa, the German U-boat sinks the British troopship Laconia en route from Cape Town to the United Kingdom. Realising there are Italian POWs and civilians amongst the shipwrecked facing certain death without rescue, U-boat Commander Werner Hartenstein (Duken) defies the orders of the German Naval High Command by surfacing and ordering his men to save as many survivors as possible. U-156 crams 200 people on board the surfaced submarine, takes another 200 in tow in four lifeboats, and assists the remaining shipwrecked surrounding the…

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