Das Boot (Director's Cut)

Ah, Das Boot (the boat), I love this movie why, why, you ask? Let's begin at the beginning. Das Boot was a German film made by Bavaria Films released in America in February of 1982. It had a fourteen million dollar budget and was directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The movie is based on the book written by Lothar-Gunther Bucheim who was a war correspondent during World War II. Lothar was attached to a u-boat crew and found out the hard way just what life was like in the boat. I gotta say Petersen did this movie right. From the sets to the models to the look of the actors it all looks like it came from WWII. The director's cut is a little longer than the original at 208 minutes. The commentary on the director's cut is from sixteen years after the original cut and is done primarily by Wolfgang Petersen (the director), Jurgen Prochnow (plays the u-boat captain) and Ortwin Freyermuth (the director's cut producer). The movie opens with some information about the u-boat fleet and the battle over control of the Atlantic that started fantastically for the Germans but now is changing in favor of the American and European forces. We switch to a murky green background and then you see the bow of the u-boat begin to appear slowly, you hear the sonar pinging in the background. We then move to the u-boat in the pens at La Rochelle France where the crew is assembled and awaiting their captain and thus begins one of the best submarine movies. The u-boat set in La Rochelle wasn't a set, it is an actual u-boat pen built in the late thirties/early forties when Germany occupied France (just another reason why this is one of the best u-boat movies) the walls are six meter thick concrete, one of the bays was also used in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Speaking of u-boats in the movie, one was a full size model built from original u-boat plans and was also used in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other shots of the sub at sea were of an eleven meter miniature with a guy inside driving it, Petersen said the driver got rather seasick at times. Originally, Bavaria Films didn't feel they had the resources to make the movie right so they went to hollywood to get it made. Robert Redford and Paul Newman were both considered to play the u-boat captain but there were big arguments with Bucheim about how the story was being portrayed because hollywood wanted to put an American spin on it, it eventually was shot using a German cast and in German language with subtitles. Later after its popularity soared it was overdubbed in English (by the original actors) some years later. There was also a six hour miniseries version for television made. Basically the movie was shot mostly in the closed set of the sub with the camera following the actors through the sub to give you the claustrophobic feeling of forty eight people living in a metal tube that's twelve feet in diameter by three hundred feet long. No one was taking showers or washing clothes on a regular basis and you had the lovely smell of diesel fuel wafting through the boat thanks to the twin diesel engines that powered the boat on top of the water. It's not a documentary though, it's a drama. Bucheim wasn't impressed with Peterson's film interpretation of his book, he felt Peterson had overdramatized it saying he made an "action flick" out of it. At one point the boat comes across a convoy of ships and torpedos a couple, everybody is happy. At another point they are getting the hell depth charged out of them when one of the most experienced crew members Johann the engine room lead man freaks out and tries to leave the ship (while it's under water...). The real captain of the U-96 (the number of the U-boat in the movie) survived the war and was on the set of the movie during the making of to answer the casts questions. Jurgen was able to get a lot of tips about how he should play the part of captain. All in all I don't think you'll find a better movie that depicts life on a WWII submarine. The blu-ray version of this movie is crisp and clean, the director commentary is the only special feature on it except for subtitles and several language choices. If you want to experience the real thing for yourself, visit the U-505 on display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry one of the worlds best (IF NOT THE BEST!!!) static displays of a WW2 u-boat. In the commentary Petersen refers to the 505 in "cheecago" (as he pronounced Chicago with his accent), he used it as a guide for making the interior sets of the movie, the U-505 is one of two remaining type IXC boats from that era left. The S&I museum in Chicago built a thirty five million dollar enclosure for the 505 that's a huge improvement from when it was outside. You can walk around the outside, see the torpedos and tour the inside of the boat and yes the tour guides (at least the one I had) have seen Das Boot. 1/6/2026, here's a little trivia for you. the movies director wolfgang peterson died in 2022 at age 81. siskel and ebert both liked this movie. a relative of mine who just turned 100 years old was a guest of the nazi regime during world war 2 in a german labor camp. movies like this and museum displays like the 505 are stark reminders of times gone by as the people who lived through that era slip away one by one, let us never forget the past.

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This is hands down the best submarine movie ever put to film. Red October is a close 2nd, but this is the GOAT. If you like sub movies, check those out plus the following: Crimson Tide, u571, Run Silent Run Deep.

I was born and raised in the movie business, and I've met many actors, writers, producers and directors, and I've come to believe that any good film has to tell a very good story whether it's fiction or a "true story", none of this Avatar junk. In addition, a movie has to have been edited as a work of love and not something to shoved down the throats of moviegoers, at $8-$20 a pop. Das Boot is one of the greatest films ever produced. Based on Lothar-Gunther Buchheim's novel, the film tells the story of a German U-boat crew in early 1941, at a point in the war in the Atlantic where the British are turning the tide against the Kriegsmarine. The captain of the boat is bemoaning the fact that many of the "Old Gang" have been killed in a war he despises, and the captain also bemoans the fact that his crew is mostly made up of kids who should be home with their mothers. He says he feels as though he's on a Childrens Crusade. As the story unfolds, we are now members of the crew because we are inside the boat in the upper and lower decks, and we get a real sense of what it is like to be crowded (50 men)in a submarine that always reeks of diesel fuel, sweaty bodies, and damp clothing. The recreation of the submarine made you feel that you were really on the boat At one point, the boat is forced to dive, because of an enemy destroyer attack, where depth charges are dropped in the hope that one or more of them will cause the boat to implode and sink. You see the very real fear on the faces of the crew, and as this incident is repeated thoughout the film, we see that the crew is essentially falling apart, and hope for survival wanes. The captain and his chief officers hold things together, but it is the captain and his chief engineer who are the heroes of this boat, U-96. After many harrowing incidents, the boat, which was nearly sunk, returns to its home base, LaRochelle, France, only to be finally sunk by a British air attack. As a former US Army soldier, I could easily identify with the fear and misery that the crew experienced. The director, Wolfgang Peterson, made a movie so real, and so personal, that anyone who has ever been in combat, whether it is on land, sea, or in the air, can identify with. For those who are not combat veterans, the movie is just plain great entertainment, and it is a tribute to hard work, detail, and all other human emotions that are used to produce a truly great film.

As a young German officer, Lothar-Gûnther Buchheim was assigned to join a U-boat patrol in the Atlantic and write a morale-boosting account of its mission. This experience provided the basis for his 1973 novel, Das Boot, which inspired this film. Buchheim also wrote a trilogy of non-fiction books about the Battle of the Atlantic, the first of which is available in English translation ( U-Boat War [1986]). In its day, Das Boot was one of the most expensive films ever produced. Most of the money went into the sets. Especially noteworthy is the set for the U-boat's interior, which was carefully constructed to replicate all the equipment of a real submarine, and mounted on a gimbal that could impart movements to simulate waves, dives, and depth charges. The set was engineered so that water could rush in and fire could break out in its confines. The camera man was forced to work in very restricted spaces and dash through the set filming the actors with his special gyro-stabilized camera. As portrayed in Das Boot, sailors were a diverse lot, but in crises they set their varying personalities and political philosophies aside and assume their assigned roles. They take some satisfaction from sinking ships, but this is tempered by discomfort or remorse over the merchant seamen they killed. U-boat existence was dispiriting, with long periods of boredom alternating with sheer terror as crewmen fought against an unseen enemy for their very lives. Casting is excellent, especially compelling is Jurgen Prochnow as the steely-eyed captain. Herbert Grönemeyer as the young correspondent Werner [i.e., Buchheim], and Klaus Wennermann as the Chief Engineer give strong performances. Hubertus Bengsch and Martin Semmelrogge give credibility to the First and Second Watch Officers, respectively--two very different characters. The sound effects, enhanced in the most recent versions, make you feel you are actually on the boat. Several versions of Das Boot have been released. The 150-minute theater version (1981), the 209-minute Director's Cut version (1997), and the 293-minute version, Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version (2004), from which a six-episode television series was derived. The 293-minute version provides more information about individual crew members and everyday life on the ship. The 209-minute version gives insights into the officers' personalities (but neglects the other crewmen). The 150-minute theater version concentrates on action scenes. The nature of your interests may determine which version you prefer. The Director's Cut version offers the original German audio as well as dubbed English and Spanish, with subtitles available in English, Spanish, and French. Extras include a feature about the making of the film, and voice-over commentary by the director and others. In one of the peripherals (The Making of Das Boot), star Jurgen Prochnow asserts, "The whole thing happened. That's a true story--exactly like it was." That is not entirely true. The U-96 actually sailed from St. Nazaire, not La Rochelle. If the U-96's crew were optimistic in setting out at the beginning of the film (October 1941), it was not due to their inexperience, but because the U-96 had already survived six patrols, and a patrol was not yet the semi-suicidal venture it was later to become. British anti-submarine measures had become much more effective by late 1941, but the U-boats responded by moving their operations away from the most heavily patrolled seas. Sinkings by U-boats did not peak until November 1942. The decisive turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic actually came in May 1943, when over 40 U-boats were lost (compared with 4 lost in November 1941). In real life, U-96's periscope would have been raised to a level at which the captain's view was not obscured by waves; and almost every encounter with British anti-submarine vessels would have featured the pinging of the asdic apparatus they used to locate submerged U-boats. In the film, messages are decoded with a four-rotor Enigma machine; but the German navy actually continued using three-rotor machines until February 1942. But all this is small-minded nitpicking. Das Boot is not intended to be a reenactment of a particular patrol; it is, rather, a microcosm of the whole U-boat war. Yet, in many ways, the film closely follows the U-96's seventh patrol (Oct. 27, 1941-Dec. 6, 1941). The U-96 was an actual ship; and it really had for its emblem the laughing sawfish that appears on the conning tower of the movie vessel. The harbor scenes were shot in World War II era German submarine bunkers. Bread and fresh produce customarily were tucked into every available space when a U-boat was provisioned. Bucheim really did take thousands of photographs while on board. The unscheduled encounter with another U-boat (U-572) actually did take place--Buchheim's photo of the event is reproduced on the cover of Time-Life's The Battle of the Atlantic (1977). And many U-boats were ordered to the Mediterranean (by Hitler himself) to protect ships carrying supplies to German forces in Africa. Viewers might assume that, in diving to depths of 150 meters and below, U-boats were senselessly courting disaster. In fact, there were reasons for doing so. During the first two years of the war, the British did not realize the depths to which U-boats could dive. Thus, U-boats could dive well below the depths at which depth charges were set to explode. It was only after they captured U-570 in the summer of 1941 that the British discovered their mistake and set their depth charges to explode at deeper depths. Apart from this factor, the increased water pressure at greater depths confined the explosive impact of depth charges. In other words, at greater depths, depth charges had to explode closer to a U-boat in order to be effective. Needless to say, the greater the depth to which a U-boat dived, the more difficult it became for anti-submarine vessels to locate it precisely (asdic was not infallible), and to set their depth charges to explode in sufficient proximity to damage the U-boat. It appears that the film's principal characters were based to some extent on their real-life equivalents. "Leutnant Werner" represents Buchheim himself, a young man who found U-boat life much more harrowing than he imagined. The captain is based on Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, one of the top U-boat "aces," who had joined the navy in the pre-Nazi years and may have been among the navy officers who were not imbued with Nazism. The pro-Nazi First Watch Officer was clearly patterned on Gerhard Groth, who was born in Mexico. The film portrays the Second Watch Officer, who evidently represents Werner Hermann, as a rather irreverent and mischievous person--and Hermann's cadet class was remembered for its pranks. Judging by photographs, Bengsch (cast as Groth) and Semmelrogge (cast as Herman) may have been selected for their physical resemblance to the characters they portrayed. The Chief Engineer was probably based on Friedrich-Wilhelm Grade. Apparently, all of these men survived the war. From a German perspective, only 10 U-boats were more successful than the U-96. After 11 patrols, it became a training vessel, and it survived until it was destroyed by American bombs in March 1945. In the course of the war, not a single crew member died in combat on the U-96. In real life, U-96 was a lucky boat.

I played this movie when my mother came visit me last month. Near the end of the movie, when the captain screamed "schneller!" on the conning tower, I turned to asked her: why haven't they dived? She answered without taking her eyes off the screen: they need to get away fast... My point is: Das Boot is not a "guy flick." It definitely requires patience on the viewers part in order to sink in the atmosphere. Unlike more recent films, it does not reach out to grab your attention. I regard Das Boot as a remake of Moby Dick with a WWII setting. There is Captain Ahab - always tempting fate and pushing the limits. He obviously suffered from hubrism. His character bordered obsessiveness, but he was noble and likable at the same time. There is Ishmael - a by-standing narrator who lived to tell. His greenness and outsider role served well to place the audience's perspective among the crew: why else would the boatswain need to recount daily nautical routines? There is the merry crew of the Pequod - raucous and vulgar but professional and trustful of their good captain. There is, finally, Moby Dick, always elusive but always there, always threatening, and ready to take charge of life when you least expected it. I especially enjoys how the captain repeatedly challenged fate, and how every time his hubrism was punished even more severely. ("Come on, is that the best you could do?" was followed by more bouts of depth charges) These did not prevent him from gleefully celebrating after he narrowly cheated death near the end of the movie. (Not yet, comrade! Not yet!) If Fate-Hubris was indeed what the movie was trying to convey, the movie's ending is justified. Otherwise, as my wife pointed out, the ending is artificial and unwarranted. I also wanted to point out that this is what plagues all German movies about WWII: they have to be gloomy, they have to be negative about the war, a nihilistic ending is mandatory. Can you image how Europeans will boo at it if it ended with a Spielbergian non-philosophy? As it is with all good movies, Das Boot is suffocated by fan excesses. If you don't enjoy this movie, you must be retarded. If you do not think that only the lengthiest version deserves existence, you are weaksauce. If you do not fast and abstain from women and alcohol for 3 days before watching, you are a heathen. If you do not think that graininess add to the authenticity of this movie, you are an idiot. If you do not think that Das Boot is the greatest movie ever made, you... The "uncut" version wasn't the original dead sea scroll. Das Boot was first released as a 150 minute movie. Four years after release, the leftover footage was scrap together to make a TV series, obviously to squeeze more $$ out of high market demand. Then comes the director's cut. I used to own the well-cut VHS version and didn't think it distracted the enjoyment of this movie. Now I own the director's cut, the superbit director's cut (for the DTS audio alone, video has same problem), and have just ordered the "uncut" version. Why? Because I like this movie so much. But it isn't The-Greatest-Movie-Ever-Made-Period. I wish the DVD gives you the choice of playing the theatrical version only. Three and a half hour is simply too long if I had to introduce it to my friends, and not all of them are so crazy about movies like this. I doubt if a blu-ray version for this movie will ever be made. The original footage is too poorly preserved to warrant one. A worthy blu-ray release requires the movie to be massively remastered and restored. The current market for this movie probably doesn't warrant such expense. But then, I will be very delighted to be wrong.

Das Boot is a classic movie. While it is a bit more cerebral than most movies with a wartime theme, this movie is far from boring. The basic plot is simple but there is a complexity to characters that make this a masterpiece. Shown from the perspective of the hunter becoming the hunted and the removal of all illusions of the glory of war, this is a morality play of perfect proportions. While the story is good, the characters make this movie. The run time is long but worth every minute if the viewer is invested. The special effects are on par for the era that the movie was made and more than adequate for the plot to progress. The themes of the movie are strong and ever present. The director shows the needless waste and horrific cost of war. The sense of duty to one’s country and shipmates, sometimes in conflict, is put on full display. The will to survive coupled with the good and evil in humans. There is an anti-war theme but it’s not over the top. In fact, the director strikes the best balance between duty and individualism I’ve ever seen. There are a lot of interwoven themes in this movie. Das Boot is not for casual movie viewers nor is it likely to appeal to younger generations. The movie is somber but not totally dark. If you’re looking for light entertainment and glib thin plot lines, this is not the movie for you. If you’re looking for complex themes and characters in a movie that will make you think a little, this is for you.

I'll say it again. This is the best submarine movie that will ever be made. It's not because of the setting, its unique perspective or even its staggering amount of technical accuracy. It takes this title because of the atmosphere it constructs. No other submarine movie builds the feeling of a damp, smelly and claustrophobic machine like this movie does. This is a pure understatement. This movie is so well shot, so well detailed, so well paced and so complete of an experience that you will immerse yourself in the environment. You are there. You aren't distracted by dozens of familiar actors faces. If you don't speak German, the correct language of the crew being spoken will add another layer of immersion instead of having to grit your teeth against hokey accents. Often films leave you feeling that outside of the periphery of the camera lens, there's a studio. This movie, like so few other films give you a sense that the rest of the Second World War is happening even where the camera isn't pointed. This movie, unlike any other submarine movie has an almost obsessive level of technical accuracy. Nothing looks like a set. This is the interior of a Type VIIc U-boat. Nothing looks out of place, nothing looks fake. Bulkheads look cold, heavy and coated in both grime and moisture. Dials and lightbulbs seem to be full of condensation. The air doesn't look to be filled with movie smoke. It looks thick with the smell of grease, sweat, oil, paint, diesel fuel. The blankets and clothes look constantly damp. The actors, pasty and filthy like real sailors kept out the the sun for months at a time. This movie was created in an era before CGI. As such it relies heavily on well detailed and painstakingly created miniatures to recreate the presence of ships long scrapped or sunk. They have held up against the test of time and still look convincing to this day. You'd be hard pressed to tell the 36 foot miniature model of the boat from the two 18 foot models used in the making of the film. Now the meat and potatoes. The crew. A first time viewer of the movie will be acutely aware that these Kriegsmarine sailors are the enemy. They are the bad guys. These are the guys everybody's grandfather punched in the face on Omaha Beach, right? Who can blame anyone for thinking this at first. When we first meet the crew, they're clean shaven, wearing their dress uniforms and tearing up occupied France on leave in drunken celebration. But, as the film progresses, you almost lose track of the time period. Of the larger war. What were once a sea of young, idealistic faces eager for action are now sprouting unkempt beards. The service uniforms become slowly replaced with the more comfortable civilian attire from deeper in the sea bags. Neckties give way to what look like scarves and hats made by family members. You don't get backstory (in the Directors Cut that is) on any of the characters. Each is introduced with little or no explanation. You only get to glean a few details here and there as the day to day conversations and duties aboard the boat are depicted in unrelenting detail. The end result is that like the main character, Werner, you meet the crew and learn the life aboard this submarine through his eyes, and by the end of the movie each face in the crew is now a familiar one. Nobody in this movie is truly an "extra". I must have watched this movie over 30 times in my life and each viewing, I notice a new detail in the background. A sailor trying not to fall out of his bunk in a raging storm can be seen clutching what looks like a scratch built model of the submarine itself fashioned from food cans, was the latest thing I noticed. You watch these guys suffer the monotony of the day to day routine while fruitlessly hunting for convoys in good weather, then accompany them through the hellish experience of a depth charge attack, then another. You follow good men to the breaking point, and watch others distinguish themselves as a member of the team. Nobody looks clueless in the background. Everybody is busy. Be it monitoring the dials and gauges of their post, or checking the batteries in emergency lamps prior to action. Nobody is "arbitrarily turning knobs trying to make it look like they are doing something" right down to the officer inputting data called down from the bridge into the perfectly recreated TVhRe. S3 Torpedo Data Computer accurately inputting the estimated range to the target, before adjusting the maximum torpedo run distance (in hectometers...) and responding with having a "firing solution" as the error lamp can be seen turning off. It is...a wholly immersive experience. You find yourself forgetting who they fight for, or why. You get absorbed in the comraderie, the teamwork and the sheer effort they put into repairing the sub. This isn't U-571 where you tighten the nut on a conn rod cap and say "okay chief give her a go", this is the chief of the boat and two other guys tangled up under one of the diesels literally pulling main bearing caps off to change the main bearings up to their knees in oily seawater. They look like they know what they are doing. You feel like you are watching the real guys do the real thing. I cannot express how utterly reverent this movie is to the history it portrays. If you haven't seen this yet, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR and turn the lights off, get comfortable and watch this movie with HEADPHONES on. You hear water rushing past the hull. You hear the electic motors change speed. The subtle music cues often lost in dialogue can be heard in full. The depth charge explosions are ear splitting. The silence being rent by the sound of a bursting bolt is heart-stopping. Sit down, buckle up and enjoy. This is the best submarine movie that will ever be made.

Brilliant cinema capturing tge German side on WW2! Film was adapted from this series which fills out more of the story! Ending unforgettable! Highly recommended 🎞️❤️❤️❤️❤️🍿

Love this movie, no complaints about the quality of the Blu-Ray.

Every 5 years or so Hollywood goes a bit crazy about a foreign language film and often showers it in awards whether it's deserved or not. Films like Downfall and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and many others have then often captured the public's attention and become big hits and successful at the box office. Well in the case of the two films just mentioned all the fuss was more than justified, in the case of Das Boot The directors Cut it's just the same and, perhaps more so. Wolfgang Peterson, who went on to have a extremely successful Hollywood career, wrote and directed this quite stunning movie about the terrors of undersea warfare during WW2. The chances of surviving the war was about 1 in 4 and this supremely tense, graphic and utterly believable tale shows you with unflinchingly clarity why that was. Firstly the British and American naval forces had learnt how to deal with the U-Boat threat and were becoming more successful with each month. Secondly, younger and younger crews with less reliable boats were pushed into service to cover increasing losses and thirdly, Hitler was becoming more demanding of what a U-Boat could actually do. Remember they had limited fuel, limited torpedoes and limited opportunity to actually find targets in the vast Atlantic ocean. Often patrolling in atrocious weather conditions with viability down to virtually zero just locating a target, any target, was often down to out-and-out luck. The U-Boats mission to disrupt allied shipping sufficiently to starve Britain out of the war of course eventually failed, but it was not through lack of the courage of the crews. Starting with some short establishing scenes in the days prior to leaving port in France, we are introduced to the crew and then we follow U-96 out to sea looking for prey. The early on board claustrophobic, gritty, damp and always busy scenes on the boat are set up extremely well and the fine often hand held camera shots following characters along the dark narrow corridors are very effective. The feeling of being there is set up early and never leaves, you ARE there with them. The feeling of enclosure is always there, the sounds, the smells, the sweat on the crew is almost palpable and a real achievement by the director and camera crew. The battle scenes, the chases, and the fleeing from destroyers dropping depth charges are almost too real. The tension built up during these underwater scenes achieved by fantastic model shots, really effective sound design and music, outstanding performances from the cast and confident direction really sell the desperate situation. As is the case with many great films, less is often more, and the simplicity and economy of some shots/scenes actually helps to sell the feeling of terror felt by the crew. Characters concentrating intently on the depth gauge as they attempt to evade being located by the enemy by going lower and lower, well beyond the boats rating, are done simply. These scenes could have been all Gung Ho with lots of special effects, but staying on desperate and terrified faces, covered in sweat and oil, really brings home the true terror of being so far below water. The immense pressure on the thin hull expressed by those terrified faces works wonderfully and humanising the war and of course helps us get to know the crew a little better and in doing so care about them. Jurgen Prochnow's, as the captain, gives a performance of such subtle power that you really feel for him as he tries to keep his crew and his boat safe. However there are two “however's” for me at least. There are quite a few editing errors (nothing major) that I suspect are there because of the difficulties involved in restoring a film and (more importantly) the last ten minutes or so feels like a different film, the simplicity and believability of the story goes a bit astray, the tone changes quite suddenly from gritty realism to Hollywood “end the film with a big bang” with a large dose of shmaltz thrown in for good measure. I'm not saying it's particularly badly done but it did feel “tacked on” and a little Hollywoodized. Considering this is the “Directors cut” I can only assume he wanted this ending and was happy with it. However I feel it was a mistake and we should have ended our film as it was presented to us, gritty and real. At three hours and nineteen minutes this is without doubt a very long film, however the running time it flies by. I never felt I was watching filler or scenes that didn't need to be there. Nominated for six Oscars it didn't win any, surely once again indicating how useless the Oscars are at actually awarding awards based on actual merit. It was very unlucky to be going up against Gandhi. Making a fortune at the box office it was clear the public recognised a film of real quality. The disk contains both German and English dubbed versions both with subtitles. Watching the German version with subtitles is by far the best, the English dub is distracting. Petersen provides a surprisingly enjoyable and amusing commentary track full of interesting tid-bits for the film buffs out there. There is a featurette but on my disk it does not play, however I'm sure it's on You-Tube somewhere. Considering this is a 38 year old film and this version is over twenty years old, the DVD quality is very good. The darks are dark without pixelating, grain is minimal and the sound quality is excellent, especially in the battle stations scenes. Excellent and quite an experience.

S’il y a un film très représentatif de la vie dans un sous-marin, c’est Das Boot. Trop méconnu, cet authentique « Chef d’œuvre » de Wolfgang Petersen est passionnant du début à la fin (choisir la version longue). Jurgen Prochnow est sublime comme d’habitude…

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