The Commander
About The Commander
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbo…
The Commander is a 2023 history war film directed by Edoardo De Angelis. Released in October 2023, it runs 120 minutes.
Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Salvatore Todaro, Massimiliano Rossi as Vittorio Marcon, Johan Heldenbergh as Georges Vogels, and Silvia D'Amico as Rina Todaro. Written by Edoardo De Angelis and Sandro Veronesi.
Shelv files it under submarine, navy, world war ii, and 1940s.
1941, Operation Petticoat, and Eye of the Needle make useful companions to The Commander. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 241 TMDB voters.