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Director Wolfgang Petersen has since graduated to mega-budget Hollywood productions (2004's Troy for example), but has never managed to even come close to this, his German-language masterpiece. Petersen and his sterling cast (including Jürgen Prochnow in his best role as the U-boat Captain) went to great lengths to ensure that this claustrophobic depiction of life aboard the German sub U-97 while attacking British convoys in the Atlantic is thoroughly authentic, and totally convincing. Even the set itself, which is a replica of a U-boat interior, had no false walls, so all camera angles are necessarily from within its horribly narrow, overcrowded and sweaty confines. The result is certainly the finest submarine drama ever made, and one of the most compelling depictions of the physical, psychological and emotional effects of warfare. You end up saying to yourself: no man, no government, no entity on this earth, has the right to ask so much from their subjects. And no other movie has come close to such an anti-war sentiment.
DAS BOOT (DIRECTOR'S CUT) | DAS BOOT - THE MINI SERIES (1985) yul brynner | christopher plummer | romy schneider
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