U-571 (film)
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| Directed by | Jonathan Mostow |
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Dino De Laurentiis Martha De Laurentiis |
| Screenplay by | Jonathan Mostow Sam Montgomery David Ayer |
| Story by | Jonathan Mostow |
| Starring |
Matthew McConaughey Bill Paxton Harvey Keitel Thomas Kretschmann Jon Bon Jovi |
| Music by | Richard Marvin |
| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Edited by | Wayne Wahrman |
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Universal Pictures Entertainment Film Distributors |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States France |
| Language | English German |
| Budget | $62 million |
| Box office | $127,666,415 |
U-571 is a 2000 war film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine.
The film was financially successful and generally well-received by critics in the United States and won an Academy Award for sound editing. The fictitious plot attracted substantial criticism; in reality, it was British personnel from HMS Bulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941), months before the United States had even entered the war. The anger over the inaccuracies even reached the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that the film was an "affront" to British sailors. The film was also criticized for German U-boat crews were portrayed in a negative light.
The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
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