The Commander

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.

• Release date
• October 31, 2023
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• War, History, Drama
• Director
• Edoardo De Angelis

Cast

Pierfrancesco Favino Salvatore Todaro Massimiliano Rossi Vittorio Marcon Johan Heldenbergh Georges Vogels Silvia D'Amico Rina Todaro Arturo Muselli Danilo Stiepovich Giuseppe Brunetti Gigino Magnifico Gianluca Di Gennaro Vincenzo Stumpo Johannes Wirix Jacques Reclercq