Orzel submarine

Movie
German title	Orzel submarine
Original title	Orzeł
Country of production	Poland
original language	Polish
Publishing year	1958
length	104 minutes
Rod
Director	Leonard Buczkowski
script	Leonard Buczkowski Janusz Meissner
production	Film studio Lodz
music	Waldemar Kazanecki
camera	Seweryn Kruszyński
cut	Krystyna Batory
occupation
Aleksander Sewruk - sea captain Kozlowski Wieńczysław Gliński - Lieutenant Captain Grabiński Jan Machulski - First Lieutenant Pilecki Roland Głowacki - First Lieutenant Roland Andrzej Herder - Lieutenant Morawski Zbigniew Filus - Boatswain Wacław Pierzchała Czesław Piaskowski - Boatswain Serafin Henryk Bąk - boatswain Wiktorczyk Tadeusz Gwiazdowski - Boatswain Bryt Ignacy Machowski - Boatswain Mirta Bronisław Pawlik - mate Rokosz Jerzy Nowak - mate Sznuk Józef Łodyński - Mate Baczek Stanisław Bareja - ship's cook Henryk Boukołowski - sailor Marian Nowicki - Polish naval attaché in Tallinn Kazimierz Wilamowski - Estonian admiral Stanisław Milski - Estonian port commander Ryszard Filipski - Estonian customs officer Zygmunt Huebner - Commander of the German warship

Submarine Orzel ( Polish Orzeł - Adler) is a true-fact war film by Polish director Leonard Buczkowski from 1958 .

action

The Baltic Sea in September 1939: The Polish submarine Orzeł runs into the port of the Estonian capital Reval and is interned there by the Estonian authorities under German pressure. Important items of equipment, much of the ammunition, maps and the flag are confiscated. The crew tried all sorts of tricks to thwart the dismantling. Lieutenant Grabiński plans to flee across the Baltic Sea, which is dominated by the overwhelming and omnipresent enemy. The lonely Polish submarine can escape ...

Historical background

The real original of the film is the story of the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł .

The Orzeł ran out at the beginning of the war to patrol the Polish coast, but had to go to Reval two weeks later to drop the sick commander Henryk Kłoczkowski (in the film: Captain Kozlowski ).

Due to Soviet and German pressure, Estonia seized the boat, but under the command of First Officer Jan Grudziński (in the film: Kapitänleutnant Grabiński ) the crew managed to break free and break through to Great Britain.

The Orzeł was stationed on a Scottish base, carried out several enemy voyages and sank the German troop carrier Rio de Janeiro on April 8, 1940 . The submarine was probably lost in May 1940 as a result of a mine hit.

In the film was Orzełs structurally identical sister ship ORP Sęp used as a backdrop.

Others

The film appeared in several languages ​​under different titles:

• Polish: Orzeł
• German: Unterseeboot Orzel (first broadcast: February 24, 1975 on TV of the GDR 2 )
• English: The Eagle
• Swedish: Örnen
• Italian: Orzel il sommergibile fantasma

Web links

• Submarine Orzel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Orzel submarine at cable one
• Orzel submarine in the Lexicon of International Films