TY - ADVS AU - Petersen,Wolfgang AU - Prochnow,Jürgen AU - Wennemann,Klaus AU - Grönemeyer,Herbert AU - Bengsch,Hubertus AU - Semmelrogge,Martin AU - Buchheim,Lothar Günther ED - Bavaria Film, ED - Twin Bros. Productions, ED - Columbia Pictures, ED - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), TI - Das Boot U1 - 791.43/72 23 PY - 2011///] CY - [Culver City, Calif.] PB - Columbia Pictures KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Naval operations KW - Submarine KW - Drama KW - Naval operations, German KW - Submarines (Ships) KW - Germany KW - Submarine warfare KW - War films KW - lcgft N1 - 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; Based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim; Director of photography, Jost Vacano ; film editor, Hannes Nikel ; music, Klaus Doldinger ; director's cut producer, Ortwin Freyermuth; Jurgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Gronemeyer, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge N2 - 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 ER -