

The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War. Ive always believed that a truly effective. AKA: Das Boot, Das Boot The Directors Cut (directors commentry), i, Le Bateau, Okrt.

If I sound cranky, let me add that the best moments in "Das Boot" are intact, including a memorable sequence when the U-boat torpedoes a British destroyer and the German crew watches helplessly as survivors scramble over the fiery wreckage and scream for help. DISTRIBUTED BY Columbia Tristar 'Das Boot' Review : Facebook: Twitter: Reddit: LinkedIn: Add to favorites: Email: After viewing the 210 minute Directors Cut of the Wolfgang Peterson masterpiece, 'Das Boot,' the film enters my Top 100 films of all-time.
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On occasion, it's even - pardon the pun - deep.īut I don't recall anyone speaking wistfully of it in the past 15 years or saying, "Gee, I loved that movie when it came out but I wanted a whole extra hour of it!" Das Boot (1981) is a well done accounting of what it was like to live on a U-boat in WW2 the. It's suspenseful when it needs to be and intelligent in its depiction of the horrors of war and the sweaty claustrophobia of submarine life. Chief Engineer Fritz Grade - Der Leitende-Der LI. 100 James Berardinelli Takes all of the drama and suspense inherent in a submarine-based story and delivers it in a near-perfect package, establishing Das Boot as not just a terrific adrenaline rush, but one of the best movies ever made. Peterson's film, which stars Jurgen Prochnow as a stoic German U-boat captain, is a visually spectacular film, distinguished by strong performances and brilliant Steadicam photography that snakes through the U-boat as its patrols the North Atlantic during World War II. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. Buchheim, Wolfgang Petersen, Dean Riesner Release. I pondered all of this as I sat through the enormous saga of the new "Das Boot," just as I had watching a uselessly expanded "Diabolique" or the four-hour, 17-minute "Ludwig." Rating: R Genre: War, Drama Original Language: German Director: Wolfgang Petersen Producer: Günter Rohrbach, Ortwin Freyermuth Writer: Lothar G.
