Das Boot
6 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
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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.
What critics thought
Nearly universally praised on release and ever since, Das Boot is regarded as one of the definitive war films — and the definitive submarine film — for its suffocating realism and sustained tension. The one prominent dissenter was Lothar-Günther Buchheim, the author of the source novel, who felt Petersen had betrayed the book's anti-war spirit entirely.
“Das Boot isn't just a German film about World War II; it's a German naval adventure epic that has already been a hit in West Germany.”
Janet Maslin·The New York Times
Genres
Drama, War
Cast & Crew
DirectorWolfgang Petersen
StarringJürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
ComposerKlaus Doldinger
Das Boot
6 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
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.
What critics thought
Nearly universally praised on release and ever since, Das Boot is regarded as one of the definitive war films — and the definitive submarine film — for its suffocating realism and sustained tension. The one prominent dissenter was Lothar-Günther Buchheim, the author of the source novel, who felt Petersen had betrayed the book's anti-war spirit entirely.
“Das Boot isn't just a German film about World War II; it's a German naval adventure epic that has already been a hit in West Germany.”
Janet Maslin·The New York Times
Genres
Drama, War
Cast & Crew
DirectorWolfgang Petersen
StarringJürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
ComposerKlaus Doldinger
Rent/Purchase