A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Jürgen Prochnow Herbert Grönemeyer Klaus Wennemann Hubertus Bengsch Martin Semmelrogge Bernd Tauber Erwin Leder Martin May Heinz Hoenig Uwe Ochsenknecht Claude-Oliver Rudolph Jan Fedder Rita Cadillac Ralf Richter Joachim Bernhard Oliver Stritzel Konrad Becker Lutz Schnell Martin Hemme Otto Sander Günter Lamprecht Thomas Boxhammer Roger Barth Günther Franke Christian Bendomir Norbert Gronwald Albert Kraml Jean-Claude Hoffmann Peter Pathenis Show All…
Hans-Walter Kramski Peter Horrocks Mel Kutbay Karola Storr Stanislav Litera Mike Le Mare Milan Bor Trevor Pyke
Radiant Film GmbH Süddeutscher Rundfunk Bavaria Film Twin Bros. Productions Columbia Pictures WDR PSO
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PTAbro's World Tour Stop 6: West Germany
It's one thing to fill a 90 minute film with relentless action, interesting and sympathetic characters, and a relatively fresh perspective on WWII, but to stretch that to 3.5 hours? And contain that action to little more than three small rooms? It's an amazing feat that Das Boot pulls off, and is justifiably labeled as not only one of the best German films ever made, but one of the best war films ever made (no small feat considering how crowded that category is).
Wolfgang Peterson plots Das Boot out to feel like a blockbuster - big explosions, manly men doing manly things, and a bombastic score. In other words, he did not squander…
One of the most gut-wrenching and claustrophobic experiences you will ever encounter! Everything about it was so real, so genuine, so authentic! With each sonar ping I felt terror grip my heart like a vise squeezing it tighter and tighter! The psychological tension was so overwhelming at times it was almost unbearable!
I've seen quite a few submarine films in my day and Das Boot is quite frankly the best of the best!
Its realistic portrayal of the men made you care for them warts and all! The story isn't so much about the war or taking sides. It was about men being pushed beyond their limits and never giving up even when things looked completely hopeless! It's about the…
Das Boot is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen and stars Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. Set in WWII, the story follows a German submarine U-96 and its crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol during the Battle of the Atlantic.
This weeks Film Club pick, brought to us by the ever brilliant Michael, was Das Boot. A German war “masterpiece” I was yet to see. However, sadly the theatrical cut didn’t quite live up to my expectations.
Don’t get me wrong, Das Boot is a brilliant film. The performances from Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann were fantastic to watch as you’re conflicted between rooting for their characters…
One of the greatest films ever made, Das Boot is a sheer masterpiece of unrelenting terror that makes impeccable use of its claustrophobic atmosphere, nerve-wracking tension & nail-biting suspense to cement its spot amongst the finest examples of its genre and is arguably the very pinnacle of German cinema.
Set during World War II, the story concerns the crew of a German U-boat as they head out to the sea to seek & destroy Allied ships. The plot covers their initial excitement for battle, days of boredom & frustration of a fruitless hunt as well as the endless assault that follows and pushes them & their submarine to the very limits.
Written & directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot takes its time to get moving…
"Das Boot" isn't your prototypical World War II film. It's an endurance test. The three and a half hour runtime is a purposefully gruelling experience. Every clang, every piston that churns, every bolt that springs free from the intense pressure of the cold depths of Davey Jones' locker eats away at your nerves. This isn't a film where valiant soldiers go about their merry way on some gallant quest to defeat their enemy. This is a film about survival. It's about how much pressure the human psyche can take before it completely snaps.
"Das Boot" in many ways reminds me of William Friedkin's masterpiece "Sorcerer." Not least in that they're both about gargantuan pieces of machinery traversing adverse conditions with…
Up there with Frankenheimer's The Train as one of the great movies about the ground-level wartime mechanics of history; the labor and procedure of steamy oil-covered machinery, the sweat and blood of professionals that make it run, etc. The claustrophobic photography by Jost Vacano (Paul Verhoeven's DP who also shot his WWII drama Soldier of Orange a few years earlier) is some of the best you'll ever see in this kind of movie. The borderline documentary attention to detail on how to run the ship frequently gives way to expressive cameras ducking through the dark steel compartments, tracing gushing water leaks and flashlight rays on the desperate/scared men's faces, latching onto incredible exterior model mock-ups of the German U-boat submarines…
Cinematic Time Capsule
1981 Marathon - Film #99
”We can only take so much pressure before the boat’s crushed.”
Phenomenal Filmmaking!
No CGI, No Steadicam, and not a single luxury! But Wolfgang Petersen was still able to create what is easily one of the best and most intense submarine movies of all-time.
Every moan, creak and ping will have you on the edge of your seat as this film works it’s magic and leaves you feeling more claustrophobic than Andre the Giant in a MINI-Cooper hardtop.
BONUS POINTS for that depth charge of an ending…
”Now it all turns psychological, gentlemen.”
Transmitting its anti-war message in impressively poignant fashion throughout its generous runtime, Wolfgang Peterson‘s submarine drama Das Boot conveys an intensely claustrophobic world on-board a German U-boat occupied by a principally unprepared crew as it sets about a hazardous patrol during the battle of the Atlantic during 1941.
We get to learn a great deal about the personnel as we go through experiences with the crew on U-96 during the films three and a half hour runtime; consequently, it's impossible to watch the movie without obtaining a heightened feeling of empathy for the men on board, and the onscreen action takes turns between anxious moments of silence and desperate junctures of enemy engagements, all of which are lustrously captured by…
I literally just spent 150 mins championing for a bunch of Nazis... Now I'm just waiting for Rod Serling to tell me I walk into the Twilight Zone.
Jokes aside, I can see why people rave this film. There's a constant sense of doom and tension that impregnate this movie. Something both the acting and the direction captures in such a splendid way. The score also helps accentuate all these feelings with its balance of epic orchestra that starts very hopeful just to end up in a such a low and scary note that feels very Horror like.
My only negative would probably a much personal taste than anything else. Sadly I've never liked Submarines nor movies that take here. This wasn't the exception. I could see the horror and Thriller, but didn't get to actually fully fill it... If that makes sense.
All that being said, the ending was heart-wrenching.
"How long is Das Boot, exactly?"
I'm not sure where Mark got his copy because I'm not aware of a four and a half hour long version. There's a five hour version, but that's not the one I watched, which was the three and a half hour version they have on Mubi currently.
It's one of those films where there are about half a million dozen different versions knocking about and where nobody can agree on what the best version is. I don't know which version I watched first time round about 20 years ago, but I suspect it was the two and a half hour version. I also watched a few episodes of the version BBC2 put out in…
Everything I wanted to say, I've already said when I reviewed Das Boot (1985). I can call it a rewatch since it is the shorter version of what I watched last month. Even though it is shorter in length, the sea is still as vast and scary as I remember it.
Starts with an enthusiastic group following war orders and ends up being a mere tale of survival. Thus, begins an endless cycle of tension and struggle. Cigarettes, laughter, stories and the crew members - that is what their whole world is now.
It doesn't matter if they will surface or sink to the deepest of the seas, because they will stay prisoners to what they have experienced, body and…
