here is, what really happened.

Rating: 1/10 (17 February 2002)

I had great expectations before watching this movie, but when I came out of the cinema, I was totally shocked, how BAD a film can be.
In addition to this opinion of mine, I want to tell, what really happened to U-571: Commander of U-571 was Kptlt. Möhlmann, who had obtained the Knights Cross. Therefore, he was in no way, like this cold, naive and dumb Captain in the movie. U-571 went on 11 patrols and was destroyed by depth-charges on 28 of January by an Allied-Aircraft.
I think the film refers to U-570, which was captured by the allies, but in U-570, all documents an the enigma machine had been destroyed, when the boat was taken over.
In reality, the enigma was captured from U-110.
One last thing about the torpedo: In 1941 the Germans mainly used the TI, TII. They were armed with 250kg of TNT. Never ever could there be such an explosion. The destroyer would had to be full with TNT or something alike to cause such a fireball.
So much for some historical background information.