Das Boot (1981)
Das Boot (1981)
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Cast & Crew.
Jürgen Prochnow
Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
Herbert Grönemeyer
Lieutenant Werner
Klaus Wennemann
Chief Engineer
Hubertus Bengsch
First Watch Officer
Martin Semmelrogge
Second Watch Officer
Bernd Tauber
Kriechbaum
Erwin Leder
Johann 'Das Gespenst'
Martin May
Ullmann
Heinz Hoenig
Hinrich
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Chief Bosun
Claude-Oliver Rudolph
Ario
Jan Fedder
Pilgrim
Rita Cadillac
Monique
Ralf Richter
Frenssen
Joachim Bernhard
Preacher
Oliver Stritzel
Schwalle
Konrad Becker
Bockstiegel
Lutz Schnell
Dufte
Martin Hemme
Brückenwilli
Otto Sander
Phillip Thomsen
Günter Lamprecht
Weser Captain
Günther Franke
Weser First Officer
Jean-Claude Hoffmann
Benjamin
Arno Kral
Hagen
Helmut Neumeier
Schmutt
Wilhelm Pietsch
Franz
Dirk Salomon
Markus
Sky du Mont
Weser Officer (uncredited)
Ulrich Günther
Merkel (uncredited)
Edwige Pierre
Nadine (uncredited)
Maryline Moulard
Françoise (uncredited)
Günter Spörrle
Seewald (uncredited)
Dean Riesner
Screenplay
Klaus Doldinger
Original Music Composer
Günter Rohrbach
Producer
Willy Schlenter
Casting
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Novel
Ortwin Freyermuth
Producer
John W. Hyde
Executive Producer
Wolfgang Petersen
Screenplay / Director
Edward R. Pressman
Executive Producer
Jost Vacano
Director of Photography
Hannes Nikel
Editor / Second Unit Director
Mark Damon Johnson
Executive Producer
Michael Bittins
Producer / Production Manager
Götz Weidner
Art Direction
Monika Bauert
Costume Design
Hans-Walter Kramski
Foley
Philipp von Seil
Assistant Art Director
Alan Willis
Music Editor
Isabel Prochnow
Script Supervisor
Rüdiger von Sperl
Makeup Artist
Walter E. Richarz
Assistant Art Director
Peter Horrocks
Sound Effects Editor
Alfred Rasche
Makeup Artist
Mel Kutbay
Foley
Ago von Sperl
Makeup Artist
Karola Storr
Sound Effects Editor
Karsten Ullrich
Sound Recordist
Werner Böhm
Sound Recordist
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Still Photographer
Friedrich Thaler
Scenic Artist
Albrecht von Bethmann
Sound Recordist
Heinz Schürer
Sound Recordist
William H. Brown
Post Production Supervisor
Stanislav Litera
Sound Recordist
Mike Rutter
Assistant Camera
Ernst Wild
Additional Photography
Lutz Hengst
Production Executive
Mike Le Mare
Sound Editor
Milan Bor
Sound Mixer
Georg Borgel
First Assistant Director
Trevor Pyke
Sound Mixer
Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design
Willi Zopf
Electrician
Ingrid von Anka
Production Secretary
Peter Dürst
Property Master
Karl-Heinz Bochnig
Special Effects
Franz Schlammer
Electrician
Marie-Antoinette Petersen
Second Assistant Director
Philippe Dussart
Production Manager
Willi Neuner
Special Effects
Rudi Denk
Electrician
Caroline Perchaud
Production Secretary
Rüdiger Wagner
Property Master
Ludwig Sauermann
Key Grip
Max Gretmann
Special Effects
Franz Kirschke
Special Effects
Isabel Goslar
Continuity
Karl Baumgartner
Special Effects Supervisor
Monika Moritz
Property Master
Iko Dimitri
Electrician
Christian Bendomir
Rolf Weber
Albert Kraml
Ferdinand Schaal
Roger Barth
Thomas Boxhammer
Norbert Gronwald
Lothar Zajicek
Peter Pathenis
Christian Seipolt
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 17, 1981
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 30m
Budget$14,000,000
Box Office$85,000,000
Filming LocationsNorth Sea, United Kingdom · La Pallice, France · Bodensee · Grünwald, Germany
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release (1981) and a TV miniseries (1985). Several different home video versions, as well as a director's cut (1997) supervised by Petersen, have also been released.
An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 German novel based on his experiences aboard German submarine U-96, the film is set during World War II and follows U-96 and her crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country.
Development began in 1979. Several American directors were considered three years earlier, before the film was shelved. During production, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real U-96 during Buchheim's 1941 patrol and one of Germany's top U-boat "tonnage aces" during the war, and Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on U-219, served as consultants. One of Petersen's goals was to guide the audience through "a journey to the edge of the mind" (the film's German tagline Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes), showing "what war is all about".
Produced on a DM32 million budget (about $18.5 million, equivalent to €34 million 2021), the high production cost ranks it among the most expensive films in German cinema, but it was a commercial success, grossing nearly $85 million worldwide (equivalent to $220 million in 2020). Columbia Pictures issued both German-language and English-dubbed versions in the United States theatrically through their Triumph Classics label, earning $11 million. Das Boot received positive reviews, and was nominated for six Academy Awards; two of these (Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) went to Petersen himself. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and DGA Award.