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The Damned

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Nazis board a submarine and flee for South America to avoid their fate in Europe.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 05/05/2016
Clment conjures up some good suspense sequences as the doctor hatches a plan to escape in an inflatable dinghy, though what really powers the story is the director's icy contempt for his ship of fools. Go to Full Review
Keith Phipps The Dissolve 08/21/2013
3.5/5
What makes the film is the atmosphere of claustrophobia and dread that Clment creates. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand 11/18/2023
... one of the strangest and darkest submarine movies ever made. Go to Full Review
Virginia Graham The Spectator 11/07/2016
The characters are well drawn, notably M. Paul Bernard as the collaborationist, and there is a magnificent bit of acting by Dalio, which is well worth a hearing. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 10/16/2013
B+
Exciting WW II thriller. Go to Full Review
J.C. Maçek III PopMatters 09/18/2013
7/10
This poignancy may not translate to modern audiences whose ideas of postwar France revolves around a completely different war and a completely new France. Go to Full Review
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laurent b 12/29/2021 One of the greatest war movies I've ever seen. Suspense, characters, plot, and a in-depth reflection on the human condition. Absolute Must see !!! See more paul d @PaulusLoZebra 11/30/2020 This is a clever story and a remarkable movie. How did René Clément manage to get, in 1946, only a year after the war, access to U-boats and a multinational crew for all the time it took to make this film? It is very realistic. It's all here: a mysterious voyage, odd civilian passengers, the natural claustrophobia of a submarine, treachery, villains, victims, love, duty, and of course evil Nazis and normal Germans fighting the war. See more 04/09/2016 A gauche but functional WWII tale elevated by the collective works of a talented ensemble cast. See more 04/08/2016 Claustrophobic French melodrama; tautly written and well-acted. See more 10/08/2013 Les Maudits (1947) This post-war french movie is very interesting, especially seeing German characters speaking french (no doubt with a German accent). I never saw René Clément's movie, "Is Paris Burning?" (1966) but this movie makes me want to see it. This one is about a bunch of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, towards the end of the war, getting on board a U-Boat bound for South America. One of the passengers gets hurt during a depth charge attack, so they sneak into France and kidnap a doctor. The doctor knows that he's dead meat as soon as they reach their destination and tries to do anything he can to survive including making friends with who he can. We also get a glimpse of some people who were staunch supporters of the wrong side for whatever reasons crammed inside the claustrophobic confines of this submarine. See more 10/07/2013 What makes the film is the atmosphere of claustrophobia and dread that Clément creates. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Nazis board a submarine and flee for South America to avoid their fate in Europe.
Director
René Clément
Producer
André Paulvé, Michel Safra
Screenwriter
René Clément, Henri Jeanson, Jacques Rémy
Production Co
Spéva Films
Genre
Adventure
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 5, 2016
Runtime
1h 45m
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