Pierfrancesco Favino stars in writer-director Edoardo De Angelis’ Venice opener, a true story of an Italian submarine captain who defied orders so he could save lives.
. He wears an asphyxiating back brace that looks painful. He speaks in a convincing Venetian accent. He does yoga. He barks orders to his haggard crew, including that they all eat gnocchi. He shoots heroin at one point. But most of all, he bravely and boldly saves two dozen Belgian sailors from drowning at sea, which makes his character, Salvatore Todaro, a veritable war hero.
That last part is heard loud and clear, many times over, in director Edoardo De Angelis’ thundering tribute to a man who defied fascist orders and extended a hand to his fellow seafarers, despite the fact they may have been supplying the Allies with weapons. Why he does this seems less important in this handsomely made, if awfully deliberate, maritime drama than the fact that he simply did it — and more importantly, that he was Italian.
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