Controversial

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2000)

This film is apparently "completely fictional". Okay, but they got the idea from a true story which is this: In 1941 a British warship engaged and sank a German U-boat which as was hit, came to the surface (literally blown to the surface) and everyone on board jumped into the sea. The secret Enigma codes onboard the sub which enabled the Germans to speak in code across radios were meant to be destroyed by a preselected sailor, but in this case the sailor was more bothered about getting out alive. A British search party got on the sub and found the code sheets which had not come into contact with water (which would have disintegrated the special paper). And voila, the code was (almost) broken.