The German commander, Admiral Günther Lütjens, therefore decided to return to a port in occupied France so that the Bismarck could be repaired. In the ensuing exchange of fire the Hood was sunk, with the loss of all but three of her crew, and the Prince of Wales and the Bismarck were both damaged. The two ships were intercepted in the Denmark Strait, between Greenland and Iceland, by the British warships HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales. In May 1941 the mighty German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by the cruiser Prinz Eugen, left her home port in the Baltic on a mission to attack British convoys in the North Atlantic.
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Nevertheless, Sink the Bismarck is eminently watchable and a fine addition to any war movie collection, if you bear in mind the above caveat. In fact, an accurate depiction of Lutjens would have, in my opinion, added interest to the plot. (Lutjens protected Jews under his command, and members of his family were in trouble for their anti-Nazi views.) This is at complete odds with his depiction in Sink the Bismarck, which I find inexcusable, given that the above information was certainly available to the production. Lutjens was a naval hero from World War I, who served out of duty and dedication, not Nazi conviction. This was most certainly not the historical Lutjens, who was by no means a Nazi fanatic. In the film, he is stereotyped as the typical Nazi - a Hitler sycophant, careerist and wild-eyed fanatic.
This otherwise fine film is marred, however, by the false depiction of one of the major characters, Admiral Lutjens, commander of the Bismarck. The details are meticulous, the casting first-rate (except for a hokey voice-impersonation of Churchill), and the battle sequences marked by accuracy and fine special effects.
The British have made war and historical movies with an unrivaled consistency of quality, and Sink the Bismarck is no exception.
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