Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version

Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version
by Wolfgang Petersen

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Actor: Herbert Gr?nemeyer, Hubertus Bengsch, J?rgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Martin Semmelrogge
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 293 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
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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This gripping tale from Academy Award? nominated director Wolfgang Peterson follows the daring patrol of U96 one of the famed German U boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew aboard the U96 is graphically portrayed in a desperate life and death struggle coping with endless hours of claustrophobic boredom at sea which quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy. DAS BOOT delivers an amazingly accurate account of Germany's elite U boat crewmen as it deliberately hammers away at the tragic waste of war.System Requirements:Running Time: 293 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: NR UPC: 043396096783 Manufacturer No: 09678

This 282-minute version of Das Boot is the full-length TV series, originally shown in six parts but here edited into a seamless whole. Director Wolfgang Petersen has since graduated to mega-budget Hollywood productions (2004's Troy for example), but has never managed to even come close to this, his German-language masterpiece. Petersen and his sterling cast (including J?rgen Prochnow in his best role as the U-boat Captain) went to great lengths to ensure that this claustrophobic depiction of life aboard the German sub U-97 while attacking British convoys in the Atlantic is thoroughly authentic, and totally convincing. Even the set itself, which is a replica of a U-boat interior, had no false walls, so all camera angles are necessarily from within its horribly narrow, overcrowded and sweaty confines. The result is certainly the finest submarine drama ever made, and one of the most compelling depictions of the physical, psychological and emotional effects of warfare.

This miniseries is rather longer than the movie version, which is also available on DVD in a director's cut version. The differences are not in matters of plot, but in the pacing: everything here takes longer to happen, while the crew must sit around, bicker, swear, and sweat it out--the agonizing searching for action, the tension of the attack, the terrible stress of hiding from enemy destroyers. Everything unfolds as if in real time, which is the great advantage a TV production has over a movie (contrast, for example, Band of Brothers with Saving Private Ryan). This, therefore, is the definitive presentation of a World War II classic. --Mark Walker

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