It is also revealed that Stan was tortured and his wife and baby child were murdered by a Gestapo officer named Kirchbaum (Martin Semmelrogge) after it was revealed that he had hidden a Jewish family in his home, fueling his hatred for the Nazis. The untrained group successfully fight off other attacks from the Kriegsmarine as well as other incidents, including the flooding of the onboard toilet. The group successfully evade capture, while the group is joined by a French-speaking Congolese worker named Jenga (Rudy Mukendi) who was left behind during the loading of the cargo by his employer when the attack unfolded. In the argument Jäger accidentally kills Maes, leaving Stan in charge. However, before their training is complete and while the cargo is loaded into the U-boat, German warships near their location to recapture the U-boat, forcing Maes to demand an immediate departure for the US. A captured German U-boat commander named Kapitänleutnant Franz Jäger ( Thure Riefenstein) is tasked with training the group of resistance fighters for three weeks to operate the U-boat in return for his freedom so he could see his son again. The group arrives to learn that they will operate the U-boat to bring a cargo of Uranium-235 to New York City to be used in the secret Manhattan Project, which will end up creating the nuclear bomb. Kapitein Maes (Vic De Wachter) of the Belgian headquarters in London, instructs them to travel to the Belgian Congo, where a captured German U-boat lies waiting for them. In German-occupied Belgium in 1943, a group of Flemish resistance fighters under the command of Stan ( Koen De Bouw) and known for their brutal and bloody attacks on Nazi forces, are tasked with completing a secret mission for the Allies which could help end the war. The film is loosely based on true events. Torpedo (Also known as ' U-235') is a 2019 Belgian action & war film directed by Sven Huybrechts and starring Koen De Bouw.
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