Drama · War · Thriller
French (Les Maudits)
1947 · Directed by René Clément · 105 min
In the last days of the Second World War, a submarine slips out of Norway carrying Nazi officials, collaborators and their companions towards South America. A French doctor is forced aboard against his will. What follows is a tense, closed-room thriller made in the first years of peace.
Why it matters in cinema history
A key example of French cinema's move from wartime to postwar subjects, and an early model of the claustrophobic submarine thriller built on character rather than battle.
Watch with intention
Watch the submarine as a small society under pressure, where space, light and rank do the work of dialogue.
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