Das Boot (film)
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| Directed by | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Produced by | Günter Rohrbach |
| Screenplay by | Wolfgang Petersen |
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Das Boot 1973 novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim |
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| Music by | Klaus Doldinger |
| Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
| Edited by | Hannes Nikel |
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| Distributed by | Neue Constantin Film |
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149 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
| Budget | 32 million DM |
| Box office | $84.9 million |
Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], German meaning "The Boat") is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a TV miniseries, and in several different home video versions of various running times.
An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 German novel of the same name, the film is set during World War II and tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country. The screenplay used an amalgamation of exploits from the real U-96, a Type VIIC-class U-boat.
Development began in 1979. Several American directors were considered three years earlier before the film was shelved. During production, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real U-96 and one of Germany's top U-boat "tonnage aces" during the war, and Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on U-219, served as consultants. One of Petersen's goals was to guide the audience through "a journey to the edge of the mind" (the film's German tagline Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes), showing "what war is all about".
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