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Release Date: 1981

Cast: Jan Fedder, Martin Semmelrogge, Klaus Wennemann, Erwin Leder, Ralf Richter, Joachim Bernhard, Jürgen Prochnow, Rita Cadillac, Herbert Grönemeyer, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig, Oliver Stritzel ...MORE

Cast: Jan Fedder, Martin Semmelrogge, Klaus Wennemann, Erwin Leder, Ralf Richter, Joachim Bernhard, Jürgen Prochnow, Rita Cadillac, Herbert Grönemeyer, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig, Oliver Stritzel, Bernd Tauber, Hubertus Bengsch, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Uwe Ochsenknecht ...LESS

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Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], "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. Das Boot is an adaption of the 1973 German novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Set during World War II, the film tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew. It depicts both the excitement of... MORE

Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], "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. Das Boot is an adaption of the 1973 German novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Set during World War II, the film 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 commanded by Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, one of Germany's top U-boat "tonnage aces" during the war. Development for Das Boot began in 1979. Several American directors were considered three years earlier before the film was shelved. During the film's production, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real U-96, and Hans-Joachim LESS