The officers of the Weser also get in on the aversion: while they greet the U-boat crew with the Roman salute and Sieg Heil's, when the captain is about to toast them, he begins to include the Führer in his speech an officer clears his throat, and the captain stops short, remarking they're nowhere near Germany (and implicitly, they don't have to observe that custom).The Captain even states that the newer crewmembers he has are not long out of the Hitler Youth.During the earlier part of the war, they probably are as apolitical as the other Kriegsmarine aspect, but as the staggering casualties mount, they get slowly refilled with men who are more aligned with the Nazi. This may well be caused by the fact that the U-Boat service had to receive so many replacements (to replenish casualties they sustained which was growing to such massive amount by 1943), as the service loses men (especially old experienced ones) they will tend to get replaced by newer ones that are either heavily indoctrinated (due to being young enough to have gone through the mandatory Hitler Youth in the 1930s for instance) or more entrenched with the Nazi ideology.However, historically only partially accurate: of all the services, the German Navy was the least political, but the number of true believers in the Uboat service was among the highest. Only the 1WO has any faith in Hitler's program. All Germans Are Nazis: Averted, as befits a film made by Germans, for Germans.
Not to mention the submarine they all worked so arduously just days ago to restore is finally sunk for good. All for Nothing: After all they've suffered and survived through the entire film, most of the crew die or get injured suddenly in an air raid the moment they make it back to their base.It gets worse: since the crewmen are unaware of British radar innovations, they are detected and bombed outside the strait, before they can even submerge and properly begin their approach. Airstrike Impossible: U96 is told to redeploy to the Mediterranean, which means sneaking through the narrow Gibraltar sound, which at the time was swarming with warships and planes of the Allies.In the film, much of the antagonistic elements of the 2nd Engineer are written into the character of the First Officer. The 2nd Engineer does not socialize or dine with the other officers and is immediately disliked by the Captain who pledges he will find a way to prevent the man from become the new Chief Engineer.
Adapted Out: A sixth officer mentioned in the novel, and omitted from the film, is the 2nd Engineer who joins the boat on a training cruise in order to take over for the Chief Engineer at the end of the patrol.All other boats mentioned are given anonymous names like UF and UX this was a deliberate choice by the author to protect certain details. Adaptational Name Change: In the book, the eponymous U-boat was called UA, which was a foreign U-boat the Germans had built for the Turkish Navy but seized for use in the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of the war.Actually That's My Assistant: The captain of the supply ship Weser awkwardly assumes the young, clean shaved and uniformed 1WO is the Captain among a bunch of jaded and bearded sea-wolves.That's pretty much it: all the weeks-long stretches of boredom interspersed by hours-long stretches of terror that made up real German naval patrols. They initially struggle to stay alert while nothing happens for endless stretches of time in the middle of the Atlantic, and later on struggle to survive extremely dangerous encounters with Allied navy ships. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.Īcross the multiple versions of the film that exist, the plot quite simply encompasses one naval patrol aboard the U-96 along with its crew.
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The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic atmosphere in a World War II era sub.
It is directed by Wolfgang Petersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Jürgen Prochnow as The Captain (commonly called Kaleun, short for Kapitänleutnant, or der Alte / the Old Man), with a soundtrack by Klaus Doldinger. Das Boot ( "The Boat" in German) is a 1981 West German war film ( based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perils-ridden patrol of a World War II German submarine, the U-96, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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