It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy British shipping. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, German U-boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of the crew of one such U-Boat, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, all the while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.
I was going through one of the US navy's computer warfare schools in CA when this movie came out. A group of 4 of us went to see this movie one evening. It was weird after we left the movie. We are were rooting for the U-boat sailors to survive, not to win, but survive.
Movie Trivia
The cast was deliberately kept indoors continually during the shooting period in order to look as pale as a real submarine crew would on a mission at sea.
The bulk of the film's $15 million budget was spent on constructing U-boats. Specifications for the original Type VII-C U-boat were found at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. The plans were taken to the original builder of the subs, who was commissioned to build a full-sized, sea-going replica, their first such assignment since the war ended. A second full-sized model was built for interior filming.
Scenes were shot in sequence so that the growth of beards would be entirely natural, although a few shots had to be redone later on with false hair.
The submarine models were also used in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Originally filmed in German, all of the major actors could speak English. When the movie was dubbed into English for USA and UK distribution, all of the principal actors - with the exception of Martin Semmelrogge - actually dubbed their own voices into English. Semmelrogge however caught up in 1997 by dubbing himself for the director's cut.
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