Das Boot (Director's Cut) [Thinpak]
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 9, 1997
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jürgen Prochnow | |
Directed by | Wolfgang Petersen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Still makes compulsive viewing.
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Film4
Everything described in the film is authentic.
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Variety
Agripping, impressively detailed account of one harrowing voyage by a German U-boat during World War II.
Variety
Das Boot is a psychological thriller of the first order. The fact that the setting is a war is, amazingly and interestingly, only incidental to its points.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 5/5 --
Wolfgang Petersen's exceptional anti-war, war film is a long haul but never boring -- as the captain, officers and crew face terror, ennui, excitement and occasional joy in the North Atlantic in 1941. (Director's Cut)
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Caution Spoilers
Das Boot comes across as cold and distant, but the work of Wolfgang Petersen is nevertheless rigorous and skillful, the actors are effective, and the camerawork is risky. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Peterson has captured the teamwork, the claustrophobia and the peril of underwater warfare. He draws compelling performances from the crewmen, many of them quite young.
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Associated Press
Description by OLDIES.com:
In the midst of World War II, as the tide turns against the Axis, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and fire at Allied ships bringing supplies to England. The submarine also carries a press correspondent, there to report from the front lines of nautical warfare. Meanwhile, the crew's captain (Jürgen Prochnow) is becoming disillusioned with the Nazi regime and with war in general. What starts out as a routine mission is soon livened up beyond the crew's expectations when their boat's surprise attack on a convoy is thwarted by a fast-moving destroyer. Battered by depth charges, the crew must pull together to survive the attacks of their unseen enemy.
Widely considered to be director Wolfgang Petersen's best film and one of the finest German films ever made, DAS BOOT is stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the cramped conditions aboard a German submarine. Based on a novel by Lothar G. Buchheim, it is a striking example of an intelligent antiwar film clothed in the guise of a military thriller.
Widely considered to be director Wolfgang Petersen's best film and one of the finest German films ever made, DAS BOOT is stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the cramped conditions aboard a German submarine. Based on a novel by Lothar G. Buchheim, it is a striking example of an intelligent antiwar film clothed in the guise of a military thriller.
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