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[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

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[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Sombre music]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

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[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Music continues; Mechanical rumbling, hissing]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud; Music fades]

[Whirring]

Captain, you might want to take a look at this.

It seems like they're changing course.

[Muffled blows]

- [Kawa] You won. - [He chuckles]

How about a cigarette?

[Pablo] Action stations. Prepare tubes one and three.

[Shrill whistling]

[Alarm blares]

[Pablo] Torpedo depth, four metres. Angle on the bow, zero degrees.

Timed salvo every two seconds.

[Seaman] Prepare tubes one and three for firing.

Torpedo depth, four metres. Angle on the bow, zero degrees.

Timed salvo every two seconds.

[Szubert] Prepare tubes one and three for firing.

Torpedo depth, four metres. Angle on the bow, zero degrees.

Timed salvo every two seconds.

[Tense music]

[Rumbling]

[Bell rings]

[Seaman] Tubes one and three are prepped.

[Pablo] Wait at the ready.

[Grudziński] Ascend to periscope depth.

[Pablo] Surfacing, trim plus five.

[Muffled rumbling]

- [Pablo, on radio] Boat on the surface! - Open up the air intake.

[Pablo] Blow ballast tanks, turn on the blowers.

[Low rumbling, hissing]

Diesel suction shafts are open.

- Diesel engines start. - Diesel engines start.

[Trzonek] Diesels ready for starting.

- Both ahead on two. - [Trzonek] Both ahead on two.

[EOT rings; Intense mechanical rattling]

[Rattling continue, muffled]

Do you hear that?

The charge of 5,000 mechanical horses.

[Low metallic groaning]

[Pocket-watch whirs]

- [Pablo] Fast dive, 25 metres. - [Alarm blares, bell rings]

- [Seaman] Down. - [Grudziński] Close the hatches.

[Alarm blares]

[Pablo] Close bulkhead hatches.

[Hatch thuds; Muffled, aqueous hum]

[Low metallic groaning]

What's that?

Shh!

[Bokser] What, you didn't practice on the other sub?

[Mechanical whirring]

[Olejnik] 20 metres.

[Whirring continues]

[Rapid ticking]

[Creaking, rattling]

- [Olejnik] 25 metres. - [Grudziński] Level her off.

- [Boatswain's Mate] Heading 90. - [Grudziński] Hold 100.

[Creaking]

[Clack]

A hundred.

- [He exhales] - Mm.

That took 45 seconds.

Not bad.

It could be two to three seconds better.

[Jones] "Our escort has returned to base.

"They wish us successful...hunting."

Please, uh, thank them on behalf of the captain.

[Keys clack]

[Jones] "On behalf of Captain Jan Grudziński..."

And on behalf of...

- [Jones] "..and on behalf of..." - ..all those aboard.

- [Jones] "..all those aboard..." - ..the ship for the Polish Republic...

[Jones] "..the ship for the Polish Republic..."

- ..Orzeł. - "..Orzeł."

- [Kotecki] Great job. - [He chuckles]

Thank you.

[Gloomy music]

[Music continues]

[Lighter clicks]

[Music continues]

[Knock at door]

[Grudziński] Come in.

Sir, we've reached the northern part of the patrol area.

We've also received our new orders. We are to go to Den Helder and wait.

[Music fades]

Sit down.

[Door closes]

I don't understand.

We were supposed to go to Skagerrak and wait for a German convoy.

Now I see why they rushed me out of the cinema. Barely had time to pack.

What'd you see?

Krysia took me to see Gone with the Wind.

Dreadfully boring.

You look like you have more to say.

The Germans have moved their entire fleet to Kiel.

The battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau,

and plenty of escort ships.

We'll get them sooner or later...

but it'll be closer from Den Helder.

We have to seize this opportunity.

[Mechanical whirring]

[Mokrski] We'll only surface at night...

to recharge the batteries.

[Sopoćko] When I learnt that I was serving on the Orzeł, I knew I was in trouble.

- [Mokrski] Eryk... - [Door opens]

[Door thuds]

I've got new orders.

Change the course.

"Destination: Netherlands." What's the mission?

Plot it out.

[Papers rustle]

[Wind roars]

[Low mechanical rumbling, whirring]

Have you seen a Dornier 24, the German flying boat?

No, not yet.

You'll get the chance soon enough. It's a beauty. Looks like a dragonfly.

Hey. But that plane can't catch us on the water, right?

Yes, but only if we're below 20 metres.

[Mellow music plays]

[Pablo, on radio] Change of watch in 30 minutes.

[Door thuds]

She's a wonderful ship.

That's right. A miracle of technology.

How you doing, mate?

Warrant Officer Aleksander Kamecki, here to serve.

Officer Cadet Eryk Sopoćko.

- Fresh meat, right? - Fresh as they come.

This machine tells us what we're breathing.

A carbon dioxide reader.

1.5 to 1.8 is good.

2 to 2.5, we're in a daze. Above that, apathy.

And death.

Plus chlorine and hydrogen from the batteries.

That's right.

[Mokrski clears throat]

Thanks for that.

[Fordyce Green] Coming down. We're coming.

Let's go! Right away!

[Seaman] Coming down.

- Ready to dive. - [Bell rings]

[Alarm blares]

[Ruminative music]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Knock at door]

[Door open, music fades]

[Klops] Midshipman Klops, reporting.

The door.

Remember back in Jastarnia, when you said you would step aside?

That you wouldn't get in my way?

I might have said that.

You know I'm serious about her.

Well, so am I. What a shame.

[Announcer, on radio] The Wehrmacht has reached the English Channel,

cutting off the British and French forces in the north.

The only retreat still remaining to England

- is through the port of Dunkirk. - Dunkirk?

[Announcer] Allied ships have been attacked by German planes.

The destroyer Wessex has been sunk, and the Polish destroyer Burza damaged.

[Wind roars]

[Rattling, rumbling]

Okay, I'm ready.

[Metallic groaning]

[Klops] Place your bets.

- I'll go ten seconds. - Czopp, ten.

Eight, let's see it.

- [Kawa] Szal says eight. - Three seconds!

- Huh?! - [Kawa] Foterek, three.

- [Szubert] I give him five seconds. - [Kawa] Szubert's got five.

- I'll take a guess at 12. - [All exclaim]

- [Seaman] Twelve! - [Klops] I'll say 13 seconds.

That's my lucky number anyway.

- Short enough to win. - [Kawa] Klops, 13.

- Aye, aye. - Ready. Just hold on!

Okay, now!

[Wind roars, thunder cracks]

[Lively yelling]

- [Klops whoops] - Wait, wait, hold on.

[Lively yelling]

- [Lively yelling] - [Seaman] Stop!

- [Klops] How long was it? - [Kawa] Five seconds. Six tops.

Shit, I've lasted way longer than 15 seconds in bigger storms than this.

Just six seconds.

Six. That means one onion a second, then.

[Pokrywka] You lost, you chop the onions.

[Klops groans, seamen laugh]

[Gloomy music]

[Rumbling, rattling]

[Deep creaking]

[Metallic groaning]

[Intense rattling]

[He groans]

[Klops] Foterek, this will help.

[Seamen groan, splutter]

[Seaman] This is a bad one.

- Oh, God, this is... - [Intense creaking]

[Foterek] Here.

[Gagging, spluttering]

[Klops] Hey, fellas, who wants an orange?

[Groaning]

[Gloomy music]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, reverberant creaking]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, reverberant creaking]

[Mellow music plays]

Yeah, here.

Let's get some fresh air.

Barley soup today and tomorrow?

Watch it with that! Don't touch the lid!

Get out of here! What's your problem?

I'm just trying to bring in a little joy here.

[Indistinct chatter]

[Pablo, on radio] Change of watch in 30 minutes.

Bon appétit.

[Muffled knock at door]

[Muffled] Come in.

[Świebodzki] Lunch, Chief.

Fish and potatoes, and jelly for dessert.

[Distinct] It's a secret recipe

entrusted to me by your dear mom, Captain.

Thank you.

[Szubert] You make a loop, and then pull the stitch underneath.

This is for my little Ela. She's two months old today.

[Kamecki] On October 2nd, my Boguś will turn one.

[Szubert] Ah, so you haven't seen him yet?

[Pablo] Have a good watch.

[Szubert] Hey, take a look at this.

[Spluttering cough]

[Foterek] Guys!

[All, unaccompanied] ♪ The wind

♪ Today, it roars, and the rain feels like tears

♪ Oh, there's

♪ No-one that can be sure where the storm will go... ♪

[Spritzer hisses]

[Muffled] ♪ Boys, our time is now

♪ We can hear the ocean's call

[Distinct] ♪ Waves are crashing and colliding

♪ And we're not scared

♪ There's some boys without

♪ Fear. ♪

[Laughter, whooping]

- [Foterek] Bravo, gentlemen! - [Applause]

Poor Fordyce doesn't know our songs.

Have you heard that one before? On your old sub?

Uh, no, sorry.

Pity, you cannot sing with us.

I can try and sing one of my own.

- Yeah, come on. - What?

- What did he say? - Stand up.

He's going to sing one of his own.

[All exclaim]

♪ Doon on the seabed

♪ Far fae the shore

♪ There lies a pebble

♪ I cast long a'fore

♪ And I made a wish

♪ As it lay in my hand

♪ Bring this lad homeward

♪ For he dreams of land

♪ Rock me to sleep

♪ My lover, my lover

♪ Rock me to sleep

♪ In the arms of the tide

♪ Our lady fair

♪ Well, she shines down from up above

♪ And she'll soon bring me back to your side

♪ Your side

♪ 'Cause my heart's wi' you

♪ No' the tide. ♪

[Gloomy music]

[Music continues; Metallic groaning, creaking]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music fades]

[Periscope whirs]

[Grudziński] No signal.

Not a living soul.

[Mokrski] May I?

[Sosnowski sniffs]

Den Helder.

A nice town.

[Pablo] Gdynia is nicer.

[Kotecki] Bearing 30 degrees.

[Low, reverberant rumbling]

[Faint brass-driven music, obscured by rumbling]

[Grudziński] It's a wedding.

[Low, reverberant rumbling]

- [Pablo] Marek? - Let me look.

[Pablo] He looks like my son.

[Water sloshes, muffled]

Let me have a look.

[Grudziński] We wait.

[Fordyce Green groans]

[He plays downbeat melody]

[He sniffles]

[Szubert] Tails, you take it.

[Mokrski] A memento from my grandfather, an 1863 insurgent.

[Soft ticking]

It's great for when you're sleeping.

If ticking doesn't bother you.

[Low rumbling, creaking]

[Announcer, on radio] On April the 30th, Major Henryk Dobrzański, alias "Hubal,"

was killed in action near the village of Anielin in central Poland.

He was the commander of the last Polish army unit

still in active combat against the German occupiers.

This piece is dedicated to all the brave Poles

as they continue their struggle.

[Sombre music plays, distorted]

Leslie.

Leslie!

Listen.

[Jones] Chopin.

Yeah.

Chopin.

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music fades]

Message for you.

Read it.

[Jones] "Captain of the Second Fleet to the commander of the Eagle.

"Leave Sector A3 after sunset and go to Sector A1."

[Gloomy music]

- [He exhales] - An order is in order.

[Music continues]

[Grudziński] We're departing. Dive 25 metres.

[Music continues]

[Low, muffled rumbling]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music continues; Cavernous, rumbling hum]

[Music fades gradually]

[Clicking; Deep, burbling hum]

Captain Jan...

it sounds like they're hunting someone.

Strange.

I think I hear weeping.

Crying?

Yes.

[Obscured, distorted shrieking]

People...

..screaming.

[Obscured, distorted shrieking]

It's only steel making that noise.

[Faint, muffled screams]

No...

..that's not steel.

[Obscured, distorted shrieking]

[Muffled clanging, creaking]

[Obscured, distorted shrieking]

Prepare to surface to periscope depth.

- Prepare to surface to periscope depth. - [Bell rings]

[Uneasy music]

[Muffled, aqueous hum]

- [Olejnik] Periscope depth. - [Periscope whirs]

[Mokrski] Yes, sir. Scope up.

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Periscope whirs]

[Muffled bubbling, sloshing]

They must have hit a mine.

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

Survivors. Take her to the surface.

[Grudziński] Stop.

Withdraw that order.

- Jan... - I hear screws, 30 degrees starboard.

- How fast? - Range about 1,200 metres.

[Music continues]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Music continues]

[Muffled creaking]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

Bearing 30 degrees.

[Slow ticking]

Range 1,000 metres.

[Tense music]

[Music continues; Soft ticking]

[Mokrski] They'll be here in 90 seconds.

Prepare for a crash dive.

- [Alarm blares] - Trim minus five. Secure the boat.

- Trim minus five. - Lower scope.

Lower periscope.

We need to get 45 metres below their keel.

Depth, 35 metres. Full ahead on boat.

- [Trzonek] Both ahead five. - Depth at 35 metres.

[Buzzer]

[Creaking]

[Olejnik] 20 metres.

Now at 25 metres.

[Creaking continues]

- [Olejnik] 30 metres. - [Grudziński] Trim zero, level her off.

[Creaking intensifies]

[Uneasy music]

Bearings at 90 degrees.

90 degrees.

Second bearing, 60 degrees.

They're coming here.

Bearing 90 degrees.

90 degrees.

I can hear a third. A big one.

[Music continues; Soft ticking]

[Mokrski] Heading to starboard.

They're coming. Brace yourself.

[Music continues]

They'll be right above us.

[Muffled creaking]

[Music continues]

[Collision; Deep rumbling, clattering]

[Rumbling, clattering subside; Low creaking]

[Deep, reverberant rumbling]

[Clattering]

[Rumbling, clattering subside]

[Deep rumbling, rattling]

[Muffled burbling, sloshing]

- [Samotus] They got us. - [Grudziński] Quiet.

[Low creaking]

[Muffled, reverberant rattling]

[Clicking]

[Whispering] All quiet.

They're quiet.

Now they're sweeping.

Turn off the fans.

[Whirring]

[Click; Whirring stops]

[Muffled, cavernous rumbling]

[Collision; Deep rumbling, clattering]

[Rumbling, clattering continue]

[Rumbling, clattering continue]

[Deep metallic groaning]

[Groaning subsides]

[Deep, aqueous rumbling]

Captain Jan...

..the E-boat's going away.

The cutters are still here.

[Uneasy music]

They're waiting.

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music fades]

[Mokrski] Only the cutters are left.

We'll blow them away. Let's surface.

[Samotus] We're going to run out of air.

We'll suffocate.

I'd rather be up there and die fighting...

..than suffocate here.

Captain...

..let's go up.

Yes, let's fight.

If we are to die, let us die now.

- [Muffled rumbling] - [Trzonek] No time to lose.

[Reverberant creaking]

[Grudziński] It's night-time. We have a chance to sneak away.

There's always time to die.

After we surface, shoot at the searchlights.

Then the second team, on my mark, will put up the smokescreen.

In the meantime, air the boat.

Gunners will provide cover with the Lewis guns.

I'd like to volunteer.

I'm the best shot in the fleet.

Get Sosnowski.

- You're taking charge. - Aye, aye.

Ascend to periscope depth.

Blow ballast tanks. Trim plus five.

[Tense music]

[Mechanical hissing]

[Music continues]

[Grudziński, muffled] Periscope up.

Periscope up.

[Low rumbling]

[Grudziński] Close. About 200 to 300 metres.

I can't see the other one.

[Music continues]

[Reverberant creaking]

[Grudziński] Battle stations.

[Pablo] Battle stations.

[Music continues]

[Reverberant creaking]

[Music continues, wind roars]

Both electrics, ahead one.

Shoot on my command. Shoot on my command!

[Music, roaring wind continue]

[Wind howls ferociously]

[Music continues]

[Rifle cocks]

[Music continues]

[Horn blares]

They've spotted us! Smokescreen now!

[Smokescreen hisses; Rapid gunfire]

- [Grudziński] Fire! - [Trzonek] Fire!

- Fire! - [Trzonek] Open fire!

Both diesels, ahead on five! Electrics, stop!

Electrics, stop. Both diesels, ahead five.

Electrics, stop. Both diesels, ahead five!

[Intense mechanical whirring]

[Gunfire echoes]

[Gunfire continues]

[Trzonek] Got her!

[Muffled hum]

Oh, shit.

E-boat incoming!

Let's ram them!

We need to dive!

[Gunfire intensifies]

[Pained groan]

Mokrski! Crash dive!

Crash dive. Both diesels, stop.

- [Bell rings] - Diesels, stop!

Secure the boat. Fill. the negative tank.

Flood the fin! Hatches, close!

All hands below deck! All hands below deck!

All hands below deck! Get down!

[Muffled gunfire]

Here.

[Metallic groaning]

[Pained groan]

[Sharp grunt]

[Muffled gunfire]

Where's Jan?!

[Pained groan]

[Trzonek] Captain!

[Gloomy music]

Hurry, Cadet, help me!

[Pained groan]

[Trzonek] Careful!

[Pablo] Both electrics, full speed ahead.

[Hatch clunks; Tense music, deep creaking]

[Pablo] Rudder, 30 degrees starboard.

- [Trzonek] Jan. - [Sosnowski] Sit down.

[Trzonek] Medic to the control room now.

[Pablo] Depth?

[Kapuściński] 30 metres.

[Trzonek] It'll be okay.

[Kapuściński] 25 metres.

[Reverberant rumbling, rattling]

[Collision; Clattering, rattling]

Explosions at 20 metres. Report sea depth.

We're diving too fast.

[Metallic creaking, grinding]

[Explosive boom]

We have to fix the puncture!

A wedge, damn it! The rivets are coming out!

[Rumbling]

Give it to him!

- [Klops] A wedge! - There!

[Pained groan]

[Seamen clamour, muffled; Intense rattling]

[Seaman] Plug the leak!

There! It's failing! The wedge didn't hold!

The rivet came out!

[Pablo] We're still diving too fast!

35 metres. Sea depth is 50 metres.

[Clamouring, groaning]

[Strained groaning]

[Explosive boom; Metallic creaking, grinding]

[Cavernous rumbling]

[Low creaking, rumbling]

- [Pained groan] - [Kapuściński] 40 metres.

- [Trzonek] We're slowing. - [Kapuściński] 41 metres.

42 metres.

[Creaking, rumbling continue]

[Gloomy music]

[Music continues]

[Low rumble; Music deepens]

[Music fades, water trickles]

[Szubert] There's been a puncture A valve on the starboard bow has gone.

[Grudziński] Damage report on tightness of the boat.

[Pablo] Damage report on tightness of the boat.

[Kawa] Number three is tight.

[Torbus] Diesel, tight.

[Klops] Torpedo room, tight.

[Pablo] The boat's tight.

[He groans, winces]

Where are they?

[Kotecki] They're still here, pretending to have left.

Captain?

Are you going to be okay?

[Torbus] There's an oil leak in the diesels.

I'll go.

[Mechanical hum]

[He grunts, strains]

[Crackling]

[Flames roar]

- Fire! - Foterek!

- Fire blanket! - Aye, aye!

The extinguisher!

[Pained yelling]

Torbus, the extinguisher!

[Pained yelling continues]

[Tense music]

[Muffled yelling]

[Muffled groaning]

[Muffled groaning]

[Gloomy music; Flames crackle]

[Foterek] The medic, where is he?!

Get me the medic!

[Trzonek] Are you all right?

[Music continues, water drips]

[Music fades]

[Low creaking]

[Horn blares in distance]

[Pablo] Report CO2 levels.

Measuring the levels of CO2 in the mess hall.

Above...2%.

How much in here?

About 1.8%.

Should we turn on the fans?

Too noisy.

[Sniffling]

[Seamen cough, splutter]

[Wheezing]

- [Clang] - [Szal] Lolek.

- [Clang] - Calm down. Lolek, stop it.

- Come here, Fritz. - Lolek, quiet!

- Come here, Fritz! - Shh, shh.

Lolek, shh, shh, shh.

Lolek, shh, shh.

Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

[Kamecki] Leave him alone.

Let go. You're choking him!

[Straining]

Janek, leave him. Let go!

[Muffled arguing, clamouring]

[Pablo] Silence onboard.

[Muffled spluttering]

[Uneasy music]

[Grudziński] Maybe we can fool them.

[He groans]

We take everything we can...

load them into the torpedo tubes and fire away.

[He blows]

[Rumbling]

[Mokrski] Come on, move it.

[Weak cough]

[Music continues]

[Muffled clunk]

[Muffled creaking, squeaking]

[Mokrski] Tube two is ready for firing.

[Sharp clang resonates]

[Music continues; Intense thudding]

[Muffled banging]

[Frenzied yelling]

Come on, you bastards.

[Ferocious yelling]

[Shrill clanging; Yelling continues, muffled]

Silence onboard.

[Muffled, aqueous hum]

[Muffled] First bearing, 40 degrees.

Second bearing, 170. Distant third bearing...

at 90 degrees.

They're closing in.

[Unnerving music]

[Music continues]

- Fire tube two. - [Sharp hissing]

[Muffled sloshing; Music continues]

[Muffled explosion]

[Muffled explosion]

[Explosive booming, rumbling]

[Deep metallic groaning]

Both electrics, ahead on five.

[Sosnowski] Both electrics, ahead on five.

- Rudder, 30 degrees... - Rudder, 30 degrees starboard.

- Trim, minus two. - Trim, minus two.

[Explosive booming, rumbling]

[Sosnowski] We're being pulled down.

[Deep creaking, rumbling]

[Ominous music]

[Music continues; Intense creaking, rumbling]

[Grudziński] Electrics, stop.

[Trzonek] Electrics, stop.

[Creaking, rumbling subside]

They've gone.

The shitheads.

[Pablo] Did they fall for it?

[Kotecki] I'm not sure.

One might have stayed behind.

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Metallic groaning]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Tense music]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

- Let's find out. - [Music fades]

[Kotecki] Silence.

Nothing. Silence.

No bearing.

- [He exhales] - I want both electrics ahead on two.

[Trzonek] Electrics, both ahead two.

[Intense whirring, rattling]

- Electrics, stop. - Electrics, stop.

[Whirring, rattling subside]

We've stopped.

How much air is left?

Four out of eight cylinders full.

Blow midship ballast tanks to starboard. Half the air.

Blow midship ballast tanks starboard.

[Intense hissing, rattling]

- Blow midship ballast tanks to port. - [Hissing, rattling subside]

We'll try to rock her.

[Samotus] Blow midship ballast tanks port.

[Intense hissing, rattling]

- There's no movement. - [Hissing, rattling subside]

Blow all the tanks. Release all the air.

All of the air?

[Grudziński] All of it.

[Intense hissing, rattling]

[Hissing, rattling subside]

Right electric, ahead two.

Left, back two.

We could lose the screw.

- [Pablo] The batteries are dying. - That's an order.

Right electric, ahead two.

Left back, two.

[Rattling]

[Intense whirring, rattling]

- Electrics, stop. - [Trzonek] Electrics, stop.

[Whirring, rattling subside]

Go see what's going on.

[Spluttering]

Chlorine and hydrogen levels are increasing.

We're all gonna suffocate.

[All splutter]

Get your breathing apparatus.

Evacuate. Everyone to the torpedo deck.

Close the bulkhead hatch.

[Spluttering continues]

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

We have to get down below deck. Chlorine levels are increasing.

I'll go down to bridge the batteries.

With what? Your hand?

Staszek, give me the wrench.

[Wrench scrapes]

[Straining]

[Wrench clunks]

You're staying.

I'll go.

It's my job and my duty.

Sir, I'd like to volunteer.

No, not you.

- We may still need a navigator. - So, what, you'll go?

- Stop it. - Captain, we can't lose you either.

[Pablo] Stop.

We need volunteers to repair the battery.

It'll be dangerous.

[Rattling]

[Klops] Midshipman Klops. Count me in.

[Czopp] Able Seaman Paweł Czopp, volunteering!

[Torbus] Petty Officer Torbus, volunteering.

So, who will you take?

Midshipman Klops.

We know each other well.

[Intense hissing]

[Hissing subsides ]

[Muffled, resonant thud; Gloomy music]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Crackling]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Rattling]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Crackling]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Tense music]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Laboured breathing]

[Sosnowski] Klops!

[He groans]

[Laboured breathing]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Strained groaning]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[He splutters]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[He retches]

[Gloomy music]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Banging]

- [Groaning] - [Klops, muffled] Oh, my God.

[Muffled speech]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

[Uneasy music]

[Music continues]

[Music builds]

[Music stops, resonates]

[He groans, door thuds]

[Exhausted breathing]

Left electric, ahead three.

[Trzonek] Left electric, ahead three.

[Intense rumbling, rattling]

- [Grudziński] Electric, stop. - [Trzonek] Left, stop.

[Rumbling, rattling subside]

[Muffled, cavernous hum]

Right electric, back three.

Right electric, back three.

[Intense rumbling, rattling]

- [Grudziński] Electric, stop. - [Trzonek] Right, stop.

[Rumbling, rattling subside]

[Muffled sloshing; Reverberant, cavernous hum]

[Muffled creaking]

[Grudziński] Now what?

[Muffled, aqueous hum]

[Reverberant trickling, tapping]

[Low electrical hum]

[Hum softens]

[Metallic scraping, groaning]

[Scraping, groaning subside]

[Raspy, laboured breathing]

She's shuffling...

from the back.

[Reverberant trickling, tapping]

[Low rumbling]

[Rumbling intensifies; Metallic creaking]

[Clunk]

[Rumbling subsides, creaking continues]

[Pablo] Jan, look.

- [Olejnik] 40 metres. - We're going up.

[Rumbling, creaking]

- Bow trim, minus four. - [Trzonek] Bow, minus four.

- Aft trims, minus three. - [Trzonek] Aft, minus three.

[Grudziński] Half-fill midship ballast tanks.

[Olejnik] 35 metres.

[Grudziński] Open the vents.

[Grudziński] 30 metres.

[Grudziński] Fill midship ballasts.

Open the vents.

[Bubbling]

[Olejnik] 25 metres.

Close all the vents...

and close the ballast flap.

[Samotus] Close the vents. Close the ballast flap.

[Stirring music]

[Pablo] We can't surface, you hear me? It's daytime.

[Olejnik] 20 metres.

Come on. Let's go out.

We can't.

Prepare to surface.

[Music continues]

[Pablo] Surface battle stations.

Gunners in position.

Don life jackets.

[Music continues]

[Music builds, swells gradually]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Music fades, wind rushes softly]

It smells strange.

- Fresh air. - [He splutters, wheezes]

Breathe in slowly, so you don't pass out.

[He breathes slowly]

Well?

It's great.

My head's spinning.

[Pokrywka] Fill your lungs with as much as you want.

There's enough for everyone.

Prepare for a crash dive. It's time to go.

Prepare for a crash drive. Let's go.

[Lighter clicks]

Thank you.

Get below deck.

Send up the next five.

[Muffled spluttering]

[He splutters]

[Klops] Jurek.

That night, when she kissed me...

..it was just to make you jealous.

[He splutters]

[Klops] I'll make sure she gets this.

[Announce, on radio] Participating in the partition of Poland

together with the Third Reich,

the Soviet Union is deporting tens of thousands of Poles to Siberia.

The deportees are transported in cattle cars,

with each one loaded with over 50 people.

The terror of the occupying forces is intensifying.

In Łódź, in the J Babiński psychiatric hospital,

the Nazis murdered 500 patients,

also 499 patients in Warta, near Sieradz.

145 villagers were executed in Firlej, near Radom.

The villages of Gałki, Hucisko and Skłoby were burnt to the ground.

[Radio off]

What's it mean?

Nothing.

[Jones] Captain...

..I've just received an order from HQ.

Read it.

[Jones clears throat]

[Jones] "Captain of the Second Fleet,

"at 10:02 hours on the 2nd of June,

"head with all speed at 9am on the 3rd of June

"to the point with coordinates 57 degrees, 00 minutes North,

"04 degrees, 00 minutes East

"to relieve HMS Trident.

"Stay in the sector until June 6th, 10pm.

"During this time, passage to the north is expected of a large German convoy

"which includes the battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.

"Watch out for a strong escort and air force presence.

"Surface only at night."

[Mokrski] Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.

We must be lucky.

A piece of cake. A simple task.

Straight into the lion's mouth.

An order is in order.

And we execute orders.

Skagerrak is a stone's throw from the Baltic Sea.

Maybe it would be good to go home. I've got family to see.

It's already worked once, right?

Then sink the entire Kriegsmarine and go home across the Baltic sea.

Anything else?

Push back the invaders, beat the Nazis.

Not enough of them around.

- [Mokrski] We could take on a few more. - All right.

[Samotus] The ship isn't fit for that.

[Trzonek] That is a fact...

Captain.

[Grudziński] Let's move.

Report battery status.

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

We can stay submerged for up to three hours, tops.

Gas levels are normal, but the batteries need diesel.

Bearing 30 degrees. Both electrics, ahead two.

[Mokrski] 30 degrees through a minefield?

- [Pablo] Bearing 30 degrees. - Both electrics, ahead two.

[Pablo] A one-way mission.

[Grudziński] Otherwise, we won't catch up.

[Tense music]

He just has...

no instinct for survival.

My king.

Join the party in the mess.

Come on.

Have a good watch, then.

- Aye, aye. - [He chuckles]

Gentlemen...

we've been away from home now for over nine months.

To mark this fact, we've received a gift from high command

in the form of two German battleships and some small escorts.

It's our job to intercept them and put them in their place.

And in a few days, we'll return home in glory.

[Music continues]

[Low metallic groaning]

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Gloomy music]

[Tense music]

[Music continues]

[Rustling]

[Music continues]

[Deep metallic groaning]

[Deep, intense creaking]

[Cavernous rumble resonates]

[Music continues]

[Deep metallic groaning]

[Groaning intensifies; Rumbling, grinding]

- Rudder, five degrees starboard. - Rudder, five degrees starboard.

[Deep metallic groaning]

[Music continues]

[Dull clang]

[Intense scraping, groaning]

[Scraping, groaning subside]

[Music continues]

[Clatter]

[Music continues]

[Deep metallic groaning]

- Rudder, two degrees to port. - Rudder, two degrees to port.

[Groaning continues]

- And a touch starboard. - And a touch starboard.

[Groaning intensifies]

[Groaning subsides]

[Music continues]

[Muffled rumbling, creaking]

[Rumbling, creaking subside]

[Music continues]

[Music fades gradually]

[Grudziński] We've made it through.

[Relieved chuckling]

[Grudziński] Ascend to periscope depth.

We're through it.

[He grunts]

[Grunting intensifies]

[He yells ecstatically]

- Hey, hey, hey! - Cut it out. Cut it out, come on!

[Kawa] Torpedo shots.

Here's to the captain.

Here.

[Foterek] Don't be so greedy, guys. The mummy should have a drink first.

Give it to me.

[Cavernous, aqueous hum]

[Slow ticking]

[Ticking quickens]

[Ticking stops]

Oh, I've got a plane at 3:00.

- Plane at 3:00. - [Pablo] Whoa, wait a minute.

I think we have a good plane.

- It might be one of ours. - [Grudziński] Crash dive.

[Engine hums]

[Deep metallic groaning]

[Explosive boom]

[Trzonek] Close the hatch! Close the hatch!

Closing hatch.

[Explosive boom]

[Intense metallic groaning]

[Creaking, rattling]

Hatch!

Close it!

Close the hatch!

[Muffled spluttering]

We're being pulled down. The stern's taking on water.

What about Piasecki?

- In the tower with Fordyce and Pokrywka. - Surface.

Emergency surfacing.

[Metallic groaning]

- The planes won't respond! - Blow the ballasts! Blow the ballasts!

Come back to the controls!

[Muffled bubbling]

[Unnerving music]

[Music builds gradually]

- [Music continues] - It's empty!

The hatch!

Open the god-damn hatch!

Cut the diesels.

We're done here.

[Music continues]

But they still have a chance.

[Music continues]

[Music continues]

[Mokrski] Damage report on tightness of the boat.

[He blows]

All stations, report your damage.

Engine room, report.

Szonak, Roszak, come in.

[Music continues]

[Shaky breathing]

[Music continues; Muffled bubbling]

[Deep metallic groaning]

[Eerie music]

[Music continues]

[Low metallic groaning]

[Music continues]

Forgive me.

Please, forgive me.

[Music continues]

[Music continues; Muffed bubbling]

[Music fades]

[Trickling]

[Low metallic creaking]

[Deep metallic creaking]

[Creaking subsides]

[Shaky, laboured breathing]

Hey.

I can hear them.

Lots of them.

[Shaky, laboured breathing]

[Stirring music]

[Muffled, distorted breathing]

Battleships.

The Gneisenau.

The Scharnhorst.

The whole Reich is closing in.

[Music builds]

Captain, we have them.

We should ascend and take a look through the periscope.

[Olejnik] The rudders are damaged.

Twist them.

[Muffled] Go on, take us up.

[Music continues]

Take us up, damn it.

[Strained groaning]

[He breathes heavily, groans]

[Rattling; Groaning continues]

[He strains, grunts]

[Music continues]

Now, level her off.

[Music continues]

She's levelled off, sir.

[Mokrski] Gneisenau, bearing 50 degrees.

Scharnhorst, bearing 100 degrees.

[Olejnik] Course 50.

Both electrics, ahead on two.

[Mokrski] Flood torpedo tubes...

..one, three and four.

[Music continues]

Target course...

zero degrees.

In turn, torpedoes one, three and four.

Prepare to fire...

torpedoes one, three and four.

[Music continues]

Fire.

All torpedo tubes, fire.

[Music swells, soars]

[Music continues]

[Muffled, resonant thud]

Do you hear that?

[He breathes shakily]

We got her.

We got her.

[Music continues]

[Low metallic groaning]

[Deep clatter reverberates]

[Intense metallic groaning]

[Groaning continues]

[Groaning builds; Intense rumbling]

[Groaning, rumbling subside; Chasmic, reverberant hum]

[Sombre music]