Autumn 1941. The crew of the U 96 celebrates its last day on land in La Rochelle, France. The exuberance of the men is nothing more than the fear of the next mission, which could be the last. War correspondent Lieutenant Werner does not understand the apparent cheerfulness, as he does not yet know the pitiless harshness of the war in a cramped submarine.

• Wolfgang Petersen
• Dean Riesner
• Lothar-Günther Buchheim

• Edwige Pierre
• Jürgen Prochnow
• Herbert Grönemeyer