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Das Boot is a 1981 West German drama, historical, war, and submarine film directed and written by Wolfgang Petersen. The production, based on the work of Lothar-Günther Buchheim, features a cast including Jürgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Hubertus Bengsch. Jost Vacano served as the director of photography, while Mark Damon was the executive producer. The film was produced by Bavaria Film and distributed by Constantin Film and Netflix.
Filmed in the North Sea, La Pallice, Bodensee, and Grünwald, the movie has a runtime of 149 minutes. It received nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, and Best Film Editing. The film has an IMDb rating of 8.3 based on 288,240 votes and a TMDb vote average of 8.082 from 2,508 votes.
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Film · TMDB
8.1A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Cast
- Jürgen Prochnow as Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
- Herbert Grönemeyer as Lieutenant Werner
- Klaus Wennemann as Chief Engineer
- Hubertus Bengsch as First Watch Officer
- Martin Semmelrogge as Second Watch Officer
- Bernd Tauber as Kriechbaum
Themes
- based on novel or book
- submarine
- war correspondent
- atlantic ocean
- gibraltar
- world war ii
- duty
- suicide mission
- drinking
- sailor
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Screenplay by
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Based on
- Das Boot , by Lothar-Günther Buchheim
- Produced by
- Günter Rohrbach
- Starring
- Jürgen Prochnow Herbert Grönemeyer Klaus Wennemann
- Cinematography
- Jost Vacano
- Edited by
- Hannes Nikel
- Music by
- Klaus Doldinger
- Production companies
- Bavaria Film Radiant Film Westdeutscher Rundfunk SWR Fernsehen
- Distributed by
- Neue Constantin Film
- Release date
- 17 September 1981 ( 1981-09-17 )
- Running time
- 149 minutes, ( see below )
- Country
- West Germany
- Language
- German
- Budget
- DM 32 million (equivalent to € 17.4 million 2021)
- Box office
- $84.9 million (equivalent to $283 million 2025)
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Official website
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