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Name: Das Boot (The Director's Cut)
Released: 1982-2-10
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann

Das Boot (The Director's Cut)

R
3h 28m
1982

98%

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It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.

Director:

Wolfgang Petersen

Producer:

Günter Rohrbach

Cast:

Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

98%

Critics Consensus: Taut, breathtakingly thrilling, and devastatingly intelligent, Das Boot is one of the greatest war films ever made.

Reviews

RogerEbert.com

Wael Khairy

...enough nerve-wracking suspense to make your heart pound against your chest like depth charges rupturing a submarine's hull.

The outcome, no matter how you look at it, confirms that it's futile to return to war but that it's also impossible to escape it. [Full review in Spanish]

Das Boot's actors look like they have lived through every sneak attack and painful claustrophobic moment in this film.

August 10, 2022

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San Francisco Examiner

Judy Stone

Director Wolfgang Petersen has rigorously discarded war movie clichés, both American and those of the Nazi regime, to show the very human fears and real courage of Germans who battled for, and lost, supremacy of the seas.

November 11, 2021

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Scott Cain

This is the finest submarine movie ever made. Although director Wolfgang Petersen emphasizes the claustrophobia of undersea life, his above-surface scenes are powerful as well.

November 9, 2021

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