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Tirpitz (Above us the waves)

Operation Tirpitz (1955)

action puts us in 1943. The staff of the Royal Navy , determined to eliminate the threat to British maritime traffic the presence of the powerful German battleship Tirpitz on a fjord on the Norwegian coast, decided to organize an undercover operation aimed to destroy the enemy ship. To do this, choose to use the submarines dwarfs Mark I, an experimental weapon to be used for the first time in this dangerous mission.

Operation Tirpitz is produced British from the 50 that reconstructs the events surrounding the so-called Operation Source, a daring underwater raid on the Norwegian coast dwarfs with the aim of destroying the battleship Tirpitz, the mighty battleship Bismarck twin. The story of the film was based on the book entitled Above us the Waves (whose translation would be " Above us, the waves "), written by Charles Warren , one of the participants in the real mission. Eliminating Tirpitz, hidden since 1942 in the safe haven of their almost impenetrable Norwegian base is became a real obsession for the British Admiralty, determined to destroy all the dangerous coast German ship. When air strikes were unsuccessful, the pilot decided to use the pocket submarines to infiltrate the heavily guarded refuge fjord where the Tirpitz , launching from submarines mother a short distance from the coast six mini-submarines of the class X. It must be said that Operation Source resulted in some success but not insignificant, and that despite all the mini-submarines were lost, the bursting of two explosive charges under the waterline of the Tirpitz knocked out the German battleship , for a long period of six months, until finally, in November 1944 the RAF finally destroyed using special pumps 5-ton Tallboy.

Naturally, the film pays tribute to the brave crew of the British dwarf submarines were able to successfully attack the Tirpitz . The production, which had historical and technical advice to the commander of submarines Donald Fraser, which resulted in the realism of the underwater scenes, quite successful for the time. Likewise, the material used was equal to the original that was used in the II GM, so the degree of realism that the film conveys is very high. Moreover, the film features the typical elements of the subgenus submarine, with moments of tension, depth charges, and a race against the clock to attack the enemy ship. Not that the film offers nothing particularly new, the truth is that in the first third of footage is somewhat slow, but overall is a title that provides a significant dose of underwater action, in addition to faithfully reconstruct the historical facts recreating.

Ultimately, Operation Tirpitz is a typical British production with traditional taste, without film boasting too, but that will no doubt please fans of naval issues and the history of World War II.

Rating: 5.5 / 10