Movies and Films
This is the forum for Movie and Film discussions. Again, our topic is naval warfare in WWII for the most part.
Re: Der Alte's Character
Posted by:
Meg Rosenfeld
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Date: February 04, 2007 02:58AM
Hi, Barry,
I looked, and sure enough, not only is the commandant called Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, but the LI is identified as Fritz Grade! Well, that's who they were in real life, although it seems almost unscrupulous to identify them as such on the film website.
Careful, not to say obsessive, research will turn up the real names of the other crew members, some of whom reportedly found the movie very offensive (no-one asked whether or not they also read the book.)
Cheers!
Meg
I looked, and sure enough, not only is the commandant called Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, but the LI is identified as Fritz Grade! Well, that's who they were in real life, although it seems almost unscrupulous to identify them as such on the film website.
Careful, not to say obsessive, research will turn up the real names of the other crew members, some of whom reportedly found the movie very offensive (no-one asked whether or not they also read the book.)
Cheers!
Meg