MOVIE · 1939
U-Boat 29
ThrillerWar82 min
In 1917, a German U-boat heads for the Orkney Isles on a covert mission to cripple the British fleet. Conrad Veidt is Captain Hardt, sent ashore to make contact with a local intermediary and coordinate with a traitor inside the Royal Navy. The link is Valerie Hobson’s schoolmistress, a quiet civilian figure drawn into an operation built on coded meetings, false identities, and wartime suspicion. As the plan moves from submarine tactics to counter-espionage on land, the mission’s success rests on secrecy and on a fragile alliance that could fail from within.
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