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| Directed by | Jonathan Mostow |
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| Story by | Jonathan Mostow |
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| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Edited by | Wayne Wahrman |
| Music by | Richard Marvin |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
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| Budget | $62 million |
| Box office | $127 million |
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 submarine boarded by American submariners to capture her Enigma cipher machine.
Although the film was financially successful and received generally positive reviews from critics,[1][2] winning the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, the fictitious plot attracted substantial criticism. British sailors from HMS Bulldog captured the first naval Enigma machine from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941, seven months before the United States entered the war and three years before the US Navy captured U-505 and its Enigma machine.[3] Anger over the film’s inaccuracies reached the House of Commons, where the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, called the film an "affront" to British sailors.[4]
- ^ "U-571". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ "The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on September 24, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ Moseley, Ray (March 4, 1999), "Hollywood Insults British Intelligence: Captain's Son Says Film About Capture Of Nazi Encoding Device Is Distortion Of History", Chicago Tribune
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