Das Boot - The Director's Cut

Das Boot - The Director's Cut
by Wolfgang Petersen

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Actor: Herbert Gr?nemeyer, Hubertus Bengsch, J?rgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Martin Semmelrogge
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 209 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-12-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Claustrophobia
Summary: 5 Stars

There have many submarine films but this one is simply the best. Films featuring U.S. submarines invariably depict spacious boats with clean, well-dressed crews.

This film is totally different. A real effort has been made to make the viewer feel the filth, crawling vermin and the compression of men into a very small space. You can almost smell the stink of a tiny ship out on the sea for months at a time.

You can also smell the terror of men forced to the bottom by attacking allied warships. You hear the rivets pop as the ship is pushed to impossible pressure limits. You feel the grief as the dying captain watches his beloved boat sink from the effects of an allied attack on the German sub pens.

The highest praise I can give to this film is that it became the all time favorite of my pre-adolescent sons. They watched it time and again and, even knowing how it would all turn out, shouted warnings to the threatened crew.

One of my sons, no doubt heavily influenced by this film, commanded his own claustrophobic "boat" in the attack on Iraq. He commanded four Marine Corps tanks, went four days without sleep and a month without a bath. He and his brave men, in their own way, do honor to all those submariners and tankers who fought in all the armies and navies.

I must mention the Hunley, the first of all militarily successful submarines. It was a Confederate invention and killed the first three crews during training. A testament to the courage of the Confederate forces, there were no problems in finding volunteers for a third crew. Tiny, it was propelled by a crack shaft operated by eight or nine crewmen. There was barely enough room to move let alone crank. Like most of its submarine successors, it travelled primarily on the surface, but the atmosphere must have been fetid.

It's "warhead" was an explosive charge in the form of a spear mounted on the bow. In 1864, the Hunley made its first--and last--combat run. She sank a Federal battleship--the first ship sunk by a submarine in history--but her courageous crew never returned. They died in Charlestown harbor.

Ron Braithwaite author of Mexican Conquest novels, "Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"

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Summary of Das Boot - The Director's Cut

This is the restored, 209-minute director's cut of Wolfgang Petersen's harrowing and claustrophobic U-boat thriller, which was theatrically rereleased in 1997. Originally made as a five-hour miniseries, this version devotes more time to getting to know the crew before they and their stoic captain (J?rgen Prochnow) get aboard their U-boat and find themselves stranded at the bottom of the sea. Das Boot puts you inside that submerged vessel and explores the physical and emotional tensions of the situation with a vivid, terrifying realism that few movies can match. As Petersen tightens the screws and the submerged ship blows bolts, the pressure builds to such unbearable levels that you may be tempted to escape for a nice walk on solid land in the great outdoors--only you wouldn't dream of looking away from the screen. --Jim Emerson

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