Das Boot (1981)


Jurgen Prochnow         Captain
Herbert Gronemeyer      Lieutenant Werner
Klaus Wennemann         Chief Engineer
Hubertus Bengsch        1st Lieutenant
Martin Semmelrogge      2nd Lieutenant
Bernd Tauber            Chief Quartermaster
Erwin Leder             Johann
Martin May              Ullmann
Heinz Honig             Hinrich
U. A. Ochsen            Chief Bosun
Claude-Oliver Rudolph   Ario
Jan Fedder              Pilgrim
Ralph Richter           Frenssen
Joachim Bernhard        Preacher
Oliver Stritzel         Schwalle
Konrad Becker           Bockstiegel

Directed by:            Wolfgang Petersen
Produced by:            Mark Damon, John W. Hyde, Edward R. Pressman


In 1941, a German U-boat undertakes a dangerous mission from La Rochelle to Spain and back. The Captain, 
a sensitive man hardened by the responsibility of too many underwater missions, must command and inspire 
his crew while trying to carry out nearly impossible orders. The Correspondent, a pink-cheeked newcomer, 
will face more tragedy and horror than he can ever imagine.

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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. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining 
how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible 
missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which 
they served.