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Suspend reality for a moment…one submarine sinking the entire British fleet? He’s then given a mission to sail to the Orkneys and meet up with a German spy there in hopes of sinking a good part (perhaps all) of the British fleet. As the movie opens he is completing a patrol with his crew but is hoping for a fine meal and some relaxation, he is confronted by shortages and rationing. Veidt is Captain Hardt, a veteran U-Boat commander during World War One. This bias grew as anti-Hitler sentiment grew in advance of what most saw as another war with “the Huns.” This can be seen in most pictures that the country produced, but Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (in their first collaboration) keep any outward bias for the most part fairly subdued. Unlike similar films (especially British ones) from the period, there only a slight anti-German bias baked in. Rather, The Spy in Black is a spy thriller which happens to have a submarine involved. I don’t know about you, but it tends to give the impression of something along the lines of Das Boot– meaning a core submarine movie. Let’s look again at that tagline at the start of this writing and what impression it gives the reader about the film. Though as now that war is countless wars ago, the term has fallen into a bit of disuse. Starring the now often overlooked Conrad Veidt, Spy speaks to a different war the War to End All Wars as they used to call it.
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Check out all the posts by clicking on the ad below- and also the site itself, which is a great resource for those into the silents. Note that this post is a part of the exciting Snoopathon hosted by Movies Silently. The premiere of The Spy in Black (released as U-Boat 29 in the States) probably falls into the latter, coming in August of 1939 literally weeks prior to the start of hostilities in World War Two. Some films come around at just the right time. The new darling of Cannes and Berlin, co-writer Ryusuke Hamaguchi ( Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy Drive My Car) turns his recurrent fascination with love triangles into tingling sexual and psychological tension.Women and children first…to die…in U-Boat attack! Suicide submarine crews ravage the high seas…in history’s most ruthless slaughter of innocents! – original release tagline Costumes and architecture radiate period charm, yet the film bristles with contemporary political relevance. The master of bloodcurdling chillers Cure and Creepy has crafted his scariest work yet, which deals with the existential horror of humans living under fascist tyranny in a morally complicit society. To turn the tide of war, his wife Satoko (Yu Aoi) must seduce, scheme, and even betray in order to outwit a ruthless secret police lieutenant (Masahiro Higashide) who adores her. During World War II, industrialist and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi) discovers a shocking state secret in the labs of Manchuria, a Japanese colony.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s gorgeous, riveting Venice Best Director winner is an espionage drama in the league of Hitchcock’s Notorious, a romance as glorious as David Lean’s wartime epics, and a metafilmic charade that hails cinema as salvation for modern civilization.