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A fictional version of the S-33 is depicted as being part of the Atlantic fleet in 1942 in the 2000 film "U-571", starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton and Jon Bon Jovi.
In the story the S-33 (disgusied as a German U-Boat) is sent to recover an Enigma machine from a damaged German U-Boat (the title's eponymous and equally fictionalized version of the German submarine U-571). During the course of the story this S-33 is sunk by another German submarine who arrives to help the U-571.
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