A 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.
Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
Lieutenant Werner
Chief Engineer
First Watch Officer
Second Watch Officer
Kriechbaum
Johann 'Das Gespenst'
Ullmann
Hinrich
_**Life on a German U-boat**_ During WW2, the German submarine U-96 (with Jürgen Prochnow as the captain) leaves the French harbor of La Rochelle for war adventures & misfortunes in the North Atlantic when they’re eventually commissioned to go through the Strait of Gibraltar. The men experience the challenging claustrophobic life of serving on a U-boat with its highs and lows. Who will make it back alive? “Das Boot” (1981) is a well done accounting of what it was like to live on a U-boat in WW2 – the claustrophobic living conditions, boredom, filth, sheer terror and… no women. One great ...
Status Released
Original LanguageGerman
Budget$14,000,000.00
Revenue $85,000,000.00