Petersens film then shifts suddenly and dramatically to heartpounding tension as the sub engages in battles with british warships. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. Based on the 1973 novel by lothargunther buchheim, this movie depicts the story of the german u96 submarine or ub. The english dub is performed by almost all of the same actors. There are no moments of filler on this soundtrack, made longer by the fact that it now accompanies petersons directors cut issued in 1998. In many ways, submarines are the perfect film setting the bulk of the action can take place in a couple of small crowded rooms, yet the knowledge that everything youre seeing is happening deep below the surface of the ocean is enough to make audiences clammy with claustrophobia. Also, much of the film is dubbed even in the original german because the noise on the sub was too loud for decent sound recording, so the actors had to dub their parts.
Its a legend and sets the bar so high for any other submarine film. It was stunning, i saw it in german with subtitles and hearing the crew speak german. Take advantage of great prices on bluray, merchandise, games, clothing and more. I greet marcinek 5551 all the subscribed and like my and comment. The same audience gave the film a standing ovation at the end. Oct 01, 20 i greet marcinek 5551 all the subscribed and like my and comment. The boat is a 1981 german war film written and directed by wolfgang petersen, produced by gunter rohrbach, and starring jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer, and klaus wennemann. In a way we can focus on that better because it is a german submarine. Nov 01, 2017 a 240tonne replica of a german uboat is being moved to a french harbour ahead of filming for a major new second world war drama series. In germanoccupied france, a youthful submarine crew gathers for a last night of drunken revelry before they will hit the seas. He was not given a share of the profits on the film. Though the films sheer size presents a compression challenge even to bluray, the results here are up to the sony standard. The film opened in the united states on february 10, 1982.
This 1997 release of wolfgang petersens directors cut, is not a minor readjustment but a substantially longer film, running 210 minutes. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a tv miniseries 1985, in several different home video versions of various running times, and. German uboat real star of new second world war drama. This is no doubt a metaphorical stab at the fact that the nazi overlords essentially sent literal boatloads of uboat men into the meat grinder. A german submarine hunts allied ships during the second world war.
A 240tonne replica of a german uboat is being moved to a french harbour ahead of filming for a major new second world war drama series. Sink argentinas carrier 1982 the secret british falklands war mission. The original theatrical version that came out in 1982 is a trimmed down version of a sixhour miniseries that aired on german television the year before. Sink argentinas carrier 1982 the secret british falklands war mission duration. I saw this movie for the first time when it was released in theaters in 1982. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, german uboats have begun to take heavy losses. Its attitude toward war is distinctly critical, which must. Audiences set out to sea with the patrol of u96 one of the famed german uboats that prowled the north atlantic challenging the british navy at every turn and faced an astonishing series of lifeanddeath struggles as the scared, exhausted and desperately courageous crew blasted away in battle, dove to untested depths, and. Buchheim also wrote a trilogy of nonfiction books about the battle of the atlantic, the first of which is available in english translation uboat war 1986. The first time i saw this film i could not take my eyes from it. It is about the desperate, dangerous and exacting job of manning a submarine.
It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a tv miniseries 1985, in several different. Durante a batalha do atlantico norte, eles vivem num inferno claustrofobico afundando navios ingleses e procurando barcos aliados. With jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer, klaus wennemann, hubertus bengsch. Action, abenteuer, drama, historie, kriegsfilm, status des films. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. If it were an american sub, we would assume the film ends in victory, identify with the crew. A world war ii german uboat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war. Dec 15, 2016 sink argentinas carrier 1982 the secret british falklands war mission duration.
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