One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.
Pierfrancesco Favino
as Salvatore Todaro
Massimiliano Rossi
as Vittorio Marcon
Johan Heldenbergh
as Georges Vogels
Silvia D'Amico
as Rina Todaro
Arturo Muselli
as Danilo Stiepovich
Giuseppe Brunetti
as Gigino Magnifico
Gianluca Di Gennaro
as Vincenzo Stumpo
Johannes Wirix
as Jacques Reclercq
Pietro Angelini
as Ivano Leandri
Mario Russo
as Salvatore Minniti
Cecilia Bertozzi
as Anna
Paolo Bonacelli
as Betti
