Director wolfgang petersen shows good pulp sense in setting up the atmosphere and action in this 1981 uboat thriller, reinforcing the. It is the final drinking contest in oktoberfest and also featured in the movie beerfest. I read the book years ago in english and seen the movie numerous times and i believe this to be one of the. Im also aware that the best international directors almost always starts making english speaking films in the end, but going back and looking at the films that made the director is so much fun. The boat is a 1981 west german war film written and directed by wolfgang petersen, produced by gunter rohrbach, and starring jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer, and klaus wennemann. The action takes place in 1942 a few months after the allies managed to crack the code of enigma. As the original films plot ends in december 1941, the series setting takes place nine months later, in 1942. Not much is actually left to the readers imagination. It is autumn, 1941, and a german uboat commander and his crew set out on. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. If it were an american sub, we would assume the film ends in victory, identify with the crew. Literally translated it means the boat or in the context of the drinking glass the boot.
Where is the english version to this fantastic story. The following pages on the english wikipedia use this file pages on other projects are not listed. Shop vinyl and cds and complete your u 96 collection. Of the 40,000 men who served on german submarines, 30,000 never returned. The author of the novel was actually aboard the uboat on several war patrols. In a way we can focus on that better because it is a german submarine. He also said the depth charging scenes were accurate, but a little. This imparts an authenticity to the film often lacking in many war films. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 563 pages and is available in paperback format. A new wave of antinazi movement began in the occupied territories. It is about the desperate, dangerous and exacting job of manning a submarine.
In german, one always capitalizes nouns, even if they are in the middle of a sentence. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of german sailors. Dasboot miniuncut is the tv series in its uncut form i have to say go for the movie,and if you. Dasboot does not support the iphone, ipad, or ipod touch.
My wife insisted on listening to the english soundtrack, which comicaly. The crew of famous submarine under the leadership of captain klaus hoffmann is to go through more complicated things and armed clashes. In 1991, it was covered by alex christensen and his dance music project u 96. But germans pronounce it like doss boat, which is very close to english. All of the main actors are bilingual in german and english, and when the film was. Ok so i was reading it in german which meant i had to keep stopping an dlooking words up and still probably missed a few points, but this story didnt seem to really go. 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.
The first edition of the novel was published in 1973, and was written by lothargunther buchheim. While damage from air attack was only an emerging threat in 1941, it was a threat, as evidenced by the failure of u96s breakthrough to the mediterranean. The main characters of this fiction, war story are. The boat by lothargunther buchheim translated from the german by denver and helen lindley copyright 1975 by alfred a. Columbia pictures released both a german version and an englishdubbed version in. 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. With nounverb tables for the different cases and tenses links to audio pronunciation and. Falling to the bottom of the sea after having their uboat down plane jammed, the air saturated with the desperate exhales of the doomed submariners, some of the crew begin to crack under the pressure as the. Anyhow, dad was a motor machinists mate and worked in the engine room during his 7 war patrols.
This is a story of hard choice, survival, the limit of human feelings and hard true of life of. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. The cruel sea shows the war from the other side the english sailors trying to track down and kill. And contain that action to little more than three small rooms. The job varied between boring and harrowing, conditions were barely livable and three quarters of german submariners in ww ii died at sea. The glass holds 2 liters of beer, or in some cases 2 liters with room for foam 3 liters to the rim. This website is not associated with any external links or websites. All images and subtitles are ed to their respectful owners unless stated otherwise. Also, many english speakers would pronounce it like the footwear. A german submarine hunts allied ships during the second world war. Dasboot the directors cut,is the movie made from the mini series. Dasboot is free to download, and may be freely distributed. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Every actor was bilingual in both english and german, recording different versions for.