Director Wolfgang Petersen with Jürgen Prochnow and Herbert Grönemeyer

A U-boot mission during WWII, mostly set in the submarine itself. Gripping, tense and claustrophobic, it sort of does what it says on the tin. I found no hidden depths as I did, for example, in Deep End – apart, of course, from the eternal puzzle of the madness of war. All that discipline, ingenuity, courage and brutality in the pursuit of death. Why?