8/24/2023 0 Comments Dasboot vs taisa![]() The Bavaria studios' special effects are superb. Prochnow's crewmen spend most of their time living in their own stink and sweat, braving storms that toss the sub around like a toy and wondering who is hunting who. This is a far cry from clean-shaven Cary Grant surfacing in Tokyo bay to blithely sink everything in sight. The waiting and the frustration of having no target give way to panic when the enemy comes out of nowhere to seize the advantage. Only a year before, Allied shipping was being sunk wholesale now a pitiful few U-boats struggle to make a dent in the unending Allied convoys. In Das Boot we see the U-Boat fleet in decline. Reviled since their attack on the Lusitania in WW1, they've always been pictured in American war films as vicious sadists, chortling and Heiling Hitler as they dispatched innocent maritime victims to the bottom of the Atlantic. Wolfgang Petersen's concentrated story of the forty or so crewmembers of a U-boat sees the war from the viewpoint of the wolfpack hunters - German sailors in subs built solely to sink relief supplies to Great Britain. But they are given impossible orders - how can they slip through the Gibraltar defenses to get to their port in the South of France, with the allied Navy in such firm control? His crew manage to avoid constant attack and make it to secret harbor in Portugal. ![]() ![]() ![]() By sheer willpower, good seamanship and superhuman effort, the Captain and German air support and intelligence is weak and British destroyers seem to be everywhere, and no longer making mistakes. With the once-feared wolfpacks reduced to 12 lone submarines, Captain Lehmann-Willenbrock (Jürgen Prochnow) sets out once more to hunt allied shipping. The story begins in 1941, just as things are getting tough for the German U-boat service. This 2-disc Blu-ray release gives the viewer a choice of two versions and a number of extras. A later DVD restored the entire five-hour German miniseries version to DVD.ĭas Boot plays so well in any form that it somehow never seems long. This is the fourth Das Boot release for Columbia and perhaps the first time that the original theatrical version has been presented on disc. in an excellently dubbed theatrical version 1 Das Boot was taken as a superior war film that really made one feel how cramped and uncomfortable it would be to ship out on one of those old "pig boats." It led to an impressive international career for director Wolfgang Petersen. But for dramatic intensity and claustrophobic realism, none can hold a periscope to the German film, Das Boot. There have been some rather good submarine movies made - Run Silent, Run Deep and The Enemy Below come to mind. Visuals of submarines underwater are so generic that as late as the '80s, the same 1943 Warners tank shots of torpedoesīubbling their way under the water were still being re-used. The sets required to produce one are so limited that any studio that could muster adequate effects for the cutaways to the action outside, could make one reasonably cheaply. BuchheimĪmerican submarine movies have been around since the silent days. Written by Wolfgang Petersen from a novel by Lothar G. Production Designer Götz Weidner, Rolf Zehetbauer Loosen, Peter Maiwald, Ernst Schmid, Ernst Stritzinger, Wolfgang Treu, Jost Vacano, Egil S. Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin LederĬinematography: Gerhard Fromm, Leander R. Starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Season two opens with a thrilling series of above-ground plot points, all poised to interlace: a French resistance operative working as a double agent in an SS-operated police department a grieving soldier desperate to find his abandoned daughter a too-trusting senator’s son and the U-boat engineer he scooped up out of the sea, schmoozing through the nightclubs of Harlem.1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 149 and 209 min. How Das Boot achieves this is by taking a lot of the water out but keeping the claustrophobia in. But with that smooth patina of Big Budget TV over the top of it, Das Boot becomes compelling to an audience wider than – and I’m using my own father as an example – “men who go to the library twice a week solely to take out non-fiction war books about U-boats and chain-smoke roll-ups while reading them in utter silence”. Obviously, an atmospheric, no-fun drama set in the simmering cauldron of a second world war submarine – where danger surrounds you, both from the murky waters above and from the complicated hierarchy of men, young and old and grizzled and green, who all have differing levels of dedication to the wartime cause – isn’t for everyone.
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