The Eagle (1959 film)

  • Aleksander Sewruk - Captain Kozlowski
  • Wieńczysław Gliński - Lieutenant Grabiński
  • January Machulski - Lieutenant Pilecki
  • Roland Glowacki - Lieutenant Roland
  • Andrzej Herder - Lieutenant Morawski
  • Zbigniew Filus - Boatswain Waclaw Pierzchała
  • Czesław Piaskowski - Boatswain Serafin
  • Henryk Bąk - Boatswain Wiktorczyk
  • Tadeusz Gwiazdowski - Boatswain Bryt
  • Ignacy Machowski - Boatswain Mirta
  • Bronisław Pawlik - Maat Rokosz
  • Jerzy Nowak - Maat Sznuk
  • Józef Lodynski - Maat 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 officers
  • Zygmunt Hübner - Commander of the German warship

Submarine Orzel (Polish Orzel - Adler ) is a based on true facts war film by Polish director Leonard Buczkowski from the year 1958.

Action

The Baltic Sea in September 1939: The Polish submarine Orzel runs in the harbor of the Estonian capital Tallinn and was interned there on German printing out by the Estonian authorities. Important equipment, much of the ammunition, the map and the flag will be confiscated. The crew tried lots of tricks to thwart the disassembly. Lieutenant Grabiński plans an escape across the dominated by the all-powerful and omnipresent enemy Baltic Sea. The lonely Polish submarine can escape ...

Historical Background

The actual presentation of the film is the story of the Polish submarine ORP Orzel.

The Orzel ran at the beginning of the war to patrol off the Polish coast, but had only two weeks later go to Reval to the diseased Commander Henryk Kłoczkowski: discontinued ( in the film Captain Kozlowski ).

Due to Soviet and German pressure continued Estonia the boat stops, its crew under the command of the first officer in January Grudziński ( in the movie: Lieutenant Grabiński ) but could liberate and break through to the UK.

The Orzel was stationed on a Scottish basis, conducted several patrols and sank on April 8, 1940 German troop transport Rio de Janeiro. The submarine was in May 1940 probably lost as a result of a mine hit.

In the film Orzełs Modelled on her sister ship ORP Sęp was used as a backdrop.

Others

The film was released in several languages ​​under various titles:

  • Polish: Orzel
  • German: Submarine Orzel ( Original Air Date: February 24, 1975 on television of the GDR 2)
  • English: The Eagle
  • Swedish: Örnen
  • Italian: Orzel il fantasma sommergibile
1958 in film Screenplay Janusz Meissner Film score Jan Machulski MS Rio de Janeiro (1914)
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