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In Enemy Hands is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 1 january 2004 with Til Schweiger

In Enemy Hands (2005)

In Enemy Hands
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Released in USA 1 january 2004
Length 1h34
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller,    Action
Rating59% 2.9981752.9981752.9981752.9981752.998175

In Enemy Hands aka "U-Boat", is a World War II submarine film released in 2004, starring William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Scott Caan and Lauren Holly.

Synopsis

Macy stars as the COB (chief of the boat) on a fictitious US Navy submarine, the USS Swordfish (although there were two actual submarines named USS Swordfish that served the US Navy during and after World War II, neither are represented by the sub in this film). While on patrol in the North Atlantic, the ship is ambushed by two German U-boats. Swordfish destroys one of them, but is critically damaged by a torpedo fired from the second one, the fictitious U-boat U-429 (again, there was a real WWII German submarine U-429, not actually represented in the film). Eight members of the American crew escape and are held prisoner on board U-429. However, the American executive officer had previously contracted meningitis and given it to his captain, who brought it aboard the U-429. Within days, over half the German crew, as well as some of the Americans, contract the disease and die. Although the Germans and Americans begin to work together to keep the boat operational, not all the U-boat crew is willing to go along with this arrangement. Also, another U-boat and an American destroyer (the fictional USS Logan, not related to the actual attack transport of that name) threaten to overwhelm their tentative truce.

Actors

Til Schweiger

(Jonas Herdt)Thomas Kretschmann

(Ludwig Cremer)William H. Macy

(Nathan Travers)Lauren Holly

(Rachel Travers)Jeremy Sisto

(Jason Abers)
And :
Scott Caan
Ian Somerhalder
Sam Huntington
Clark Gregg
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