The next three weeks are spent enduring a relentless North Atlantic gale. After days of boredom, the crew is excited by another U-boat's spotting of an enemy convoy, but they are soon spotted by a British destroyer and bombarded with depth charges. One Nazi officer, 1-WO (the first officer), is disliked by the others due to his pro-Nazi beliefs and meticulous grooming habits that hogs up the one bathroom that the entire crew has to share. The new men, including Werner, are mocked by the rest of the crew, who share a tight bond. As time passes, he observes ideological differences between the new crew members and the hardened veterans, particularly the captain, who is embittered and cynical about the war.
The next morning, U-96 sails out of the harbour of La Rochelle, and Werner is given a tour of the boat.
Thomsen, another captain, gives a crude drunken speech to celebrate his Ritterkreuz award, in which he mocks Adolf Hitler. He is driven by her captain and chief engineer to a raucous French bordello, where he meets some of the crew. Lieutenant Werner is a war correspondent on the German submarine U-96 in October 1941. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and DGA Award. Das Boot received positive reviews, and was nominated for six Academy Awards two of these ( Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) went to Petersen himself. Columbia Pictures issued both German-language and English-dubbed versions in the United States theatrically through their Triumph Classics label, earning $11 million. Produced on a DM32 million budget (about $18.5 million, equivalent to €34 million 2021), the high production cost ranks it among the most expensive films in German cinema, but it was a commercial success, grossing nearly $85 million worldwide (equivalent to $220 million in 2020). One of Petersen's goals was to guide the audience through "a journey to the edge of the mind" (the film's German tagline Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes), showing "what war is all about". During production, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real U-96 during Buchheim's 1941 patrol and one of Germany's top U-boat "tonnage aces" during the war, and Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on U-219, served as consultants. Several American directors were considered three years earlier, before the film was shelved. 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.ĭevelopment began in 1979. Also, several different home video versions, as well as a director's cut (1997) supervised by Petersen, have been released.Īn adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 German novel based on his experiences aboard German submarine U-96, the film is set during World War II and follows U-96 and her crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release (1981) and a TV miniseries (1985). But the worst thing is that millions of people, that don´t feel in with u-boats, will consider the events in the film as the truth.The tower of the submarine, Bavaria Studios, Munichĭas Boot ( German pronunciation:, The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. It´s simply a shame but typical for the arrogancy and ignorance of some hollywood-directors and –producers, who dare to falsify history and don´t care about realism. As Ian Stapley said “Das Boot†is still (and will always be) the yardstick by which all other sub films are measured. I`m sure Wolfgang Petersen only got a fraction of Mostow´s budget when he made “Das Bootâ€, but nevertheless he largely kept the facts und created a masterpiece that – thanks to the wonderful actors – stands alone forever.
I really can´t understand, how one can spend $90 million bucks for a u-boat-film without having any specialized knowledge about this part of history or u-boat-technology and without consulting any specialists. Apart from the fact that this film is a pure offense for all u-boat-men, it´s Jonathan Mostow`s and the producer`s ignorance and foolery that makes me so angry.
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On the other side I´m glad that I´m not the only one who dislikes this horrific movie named “U-571â€. I just wanna say, that I´m very pleased to read all the positive comments about “Das Bootâ€! It´s good to know that this outstanding movie isn´t only very popular in Germany but also highly respected in the rest of the world.
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