The Commander
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- Runtime
- 120 mins
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.
Cast
- Pierfrancesco Favino
- Massimiliano Rossi
- Johan Heldenbergh
- Silvia D'Amico
- Arturo Muselli
- Giuseppe Brunetti
- Gianluca Di Gennaro
- Johannes Wirix
- Pietro Angelini
- Mario Russo
- Cecilia Bertozzi
- Paolo Bonacelli
- Luca Chikovani
- Lucas Tavernier
- Giulio Greco
- Arianna di Claudio
- Giuseppe Lo Piccolo
- Alessandro Bandini
- Giustiniano Alpi
- Giacomo Bottoni
- Olivier Langhendries
- Andrea Ferrara
Director
- Edoardo De Angelis
Producers
- Francesca Cima
- Paolo Del Brocco
- Carlotta Calori
- Viola Prestieri
- Pierpaolo Verga
- Nicola Giuliano
- Attilio De Razza
- Edoardo De Angelis
Screenwriter
- Edoardo De Angelis
- Sandro Veronesi
