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Although the film is 3½ hours long, in German, with English subtitles, it absolutely held me in suspense from the moment the U-boat sailed until the end. This version of tld"Das Boot rd" feels very realistic. Each time the dive alarm sounds, the crew races to the fore, and the camera follows the scrambling young men through cramped openings, ducking under swinging lights and charging past falling gear. This is one film that is worth seeing in a theater with digital sound, because the sound greatly enhances the realism. There is a sense of actually being with the crew deep beneath the surface of the water, because the sound of the hull's creaking and the pings of the sonar are all around you. When the depth charges explode, you may even be fooled into thinking that the theater is shaking!
For adults who are interested in the war film genre and willing to endure foul language, this film is well worth seeing. It is expertly crafted (the original 1981 version was nominated for numerous Academy Awards) and provides an opportunity to experience something of what it was like to serve on a submarine in World War II. For Americans, rld"Das Bootbrd" will make you thankful that we are at peace… at present.
Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 adaptation of Lothar G. Buchheim’s novel is a depiction of a German U-boat crew’s progress during the Second World War and is, in my opinion, the finest war film ever made. Like Clint Eastwood’s Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) or Joseph Vilsmaier’s Stalingrad (1993), it’s refreshing to see the war from the perspective of someone other than the Americans. There is no glorifying in any of the films mentioned and with Das Boot the Germans are portrayed simply as soldiers doing their respective duties, no matter how impossible the odds are against them. The film’s tagline gives an idea of what’s to come:- “Hitler sent out 40,000 men aboard German U-Boats during World War 2. Less than 10,000 returned.”
Das Boot ( The Boat , German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt]) is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. It is an adaption of the 1973 German novel Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Set during World War II, the film tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country. The screenplay used an amalgamation of exploits from the real U-96, a Type VIIC-class U-boat commanded by Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, one of Germany's top U-boat tonnage aces during the war.
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