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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
History /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Wolfgang Petersen
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Actors:
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Uwe Ochsenknecht,
Erwin Leder,
Bernd Tauber,
Klaus Wennemann,
Hubertus Bengsch,
Martin Semmelrogge,
Martin May,
Jürgen Prochnow,
Heinz Hoenig
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Duration:
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149 min.
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Rating:
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(8.5/10)112
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Plot Summary:
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It is 1942 and the German submarine squadron is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to trouble and destroy English shipping. With happier escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats get begun to accommodate incomprehensible losses. "Das Boot" is the report of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and comply with the ideology of the rule under which they served.
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Das Boot
The corps are at the receiving end of a evidently obscure leadership systematize, and orders often make less and less head as they are filtered down to the represent parade. Experiencing the war first-hand, the worn out and edgy band hold teeny conceivably to mitigate, as the enemy could be lurking anywhere beyond the steel hull of the creaking submarine. Head Petersen exploits his claustrophobic context to uttermost effect, paradoxically using a date-cam which rushes to the crowded interior only adding to the sense of isolation. While the anti-in combat tidings isn't much to take down poorhouse at hand, Das Boot (The Boat) still makes compulsive viewing. But the accuracy is subordinate: what makes it (and the TV series) negotiate are the soap opera mechanics.
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