The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
Franka Potente
Hilda Smith
Ken Duken
Werner Hartenstein
Jacob Matschenz
Mannesmann
Stefan Rudolf
Remmert
Matthias Koeberlin
Rostau
Frederick Lau
Fiedler
Andrew Buchan
Thomas Mortimer
Lindsay Duncan
Elisabeth Fullwood
Thomas Kretschmann
Karl Dönitz
Jodi Balfour
Sarah Fullwood
Status
Ended
Original Language
EN
Network
BBC Two
Production
Talkback Thames, Two Oceans Production, teamWorx
Peter McGinn
January 25, 2022
I didn’t find this two-part series to be compelling viewing, and in fact it barely held my attention enough to allow me to finish watching it. I was not offended by the layered character study presented here of a German U-Boat captain who is allowed a thoughtful and human response to learning of the number of civilians on the ship he has sunk, including women and children. It does seemed out of ba...
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