Das Boot / Columbia Pictures presents a director's cut restoration from Twin Bros. Productions ; a Bavaria Film production ; a film by Wolfgang Petersen ; written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen ; produced by Günter Rohrbach.
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FilmPublisher number: 38972 | Columbia PicturesPublisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia Pictures, [2011]Distributor: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Edition: Boat; Boot; Widescreen ; Director's cutDescription: 1 Blu-ray disc (3 hr., 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
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- videodisc
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- Director of photography, Jost Vacano ; film editor, Hannes Nikel ; music, Klaus Doldinger ; director's cut producer, Ortwin Freyermuth.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey. There's very little plot, so the movie's power comes from both its riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the boring hours spent waiting for orders or signs of the enemy. With the exception of one staunch Hitler Youth lieutenant, none of the crew is particularly loyal to the Nazis, and some are openly hostile toward their Fuhrer; this allows viewer sympathy with the men as they perform their laborious, monotonous duties in cramped, filthy quarters, or await death as depth charges explode all around the sub. Prochnow is excellent as the nerves-of-steel commander, and many of the supporting actors -- all German -- are solid as well, although the characterizations border on war movie clichés (the young crewman who has left behind his pregnant girlfriend, the Chief Engineer whose wife is seriously ill). The real star, however, is cinematographer Jost Vacano, who makes the sub's grimy, claustrophobic interior come to vivid life, as his camera follows the crew through hatches, up ladders, into bunks, and under pipes, creating a palpable sense of claustrophobia while injecting it with movement. Originally edited by writer/director Wolfgang Petersen as both a two-and-a-half hour theatrical release and a six-hour German miniseries, Das Boot was re-released in a restored version in 1997 with nearly one hour of added footage which made it even more suspenseful than before. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
MPAA rating: R.
Requires Blu-ray player.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Blu-ray release of the 1981 feature film.
"Disc 1"--Disc label.
German, English, or French audio ; English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish, or French subtitles.
Blu-ray; all regions; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; DTS-HD master audio 5.1 (German and English) and Dolby Digital 5.1 (French); requires Blu-ray player.
Jurgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Gronemeyer, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge.
Director of photography, Jost Vacano ; film editor, Hannes Nikel ; music, Klaus Doldinger ; director's cut producer, Ortwin Freyermuth.
Based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim.
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic' to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. This story of one U-Boat crew details how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while trying to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.