Knowing him for his work in the Thriller genre,I decided to take a look at Harald Reinl's credits to see what else he had done. Discovering that I had a War flick which I had been unaware was by Reinl, I got set to see U47 dive.
View on the film:
Clearly working on a far lower budget then the one he would later have for his run of Krimi movies, director Harald Reinl & his regular cinematographer Ernst W. Kalinke find space in the middle of poor stock footage for U47's attacks to drill a tense atmosphere into the submarine, with grinding, scarping sounds being played in the background,as Reinl tightly holds the camera into each corner, capturing the on-edge confinement of the crew.
Playing fast and lose with the reality of this "True Story", (the real Captain Prien was not a member of the German Resistance) the screenplay by Reinl's regular scriptwriter J. Joachim Bartsch (joined here by Udo Wolter) presents U47's sinking of British warships in a flat manner,lacking any hint of the on-edge action mood the film is trying to build, with the lone sparks coming from the writers diving into the casual bickering of the crew on the U47.
View on the film:
Clearly working on a far lower budget then the one he would later have for his run of Krimi movies, director Harald Reinl & his regular cinematographer Ernst W. Kalinke find space in the middle of poor stock footage for U47's attacks to drill a tense atmosphere into the submarine, with grinding, scarping sounds being played in the background,as Reinl tightly holds the camera into each corner, capturing the on-edge confinement of the crew.
Playing fast and lose with the reality of this "True Story", (the real Captain Prien was not a member of the German Resistance) the screenplay by Reinl's regular scriptwriter J. Joachim Bartsch (joined here by Udo Wolter) presents U47's sinking of British warships in a flat manner,lacking any hint of the on-edge action mood the film is trying to build, with the lone sparks coming from the writers diving into the casual bickering of the crew on the U47.