@@karga23 To me, it's the greatest movie. Simply. Just because it feels like you're really there, not a single cringe line, ethos, dumb holywood moments. Pure.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
This ending sort of ruined the somewhat realistic (not very accurate by many aspects) atmosphere of movie. St. Nazaire probably had very likely more AA guns than whole Berlin. It was never attacked in widescale daytime air raid.
@@KretinoSantino The movie had one of the biggest budgets of any German movie ever. Blowing a whole lot more for a few seconds would have been hard to justify. This was before the days where you could add as many AAA as you wanted via CGI. Just like they had to do with what planes they could get their hands on. And the scene was supposed to take place in La Rochelle In general, the ending of the movie was close to the book
The Captain was the soul of the boat, the iron will that got it and the crew through every battle, and the boat was the beating heart of the Captain. Neither could live without the other.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Not every German soldier was a Nazi, and the officers and men of the Kriegsmarine even less so. Try reading history before you speak again.
@@LordZontar not every german in ww2 was a nazi do you know about th u-156 they tried to save the people of the laconia but they were attacked by the americans with a big red cross flag in the side of the u-boot,learn some history
Notice the three shots of the Captain's face as he watches his U-boat go under. His expression in the first is complete shock, the second is abject sorrow, while the last is a debilitating culmination of mental and physical anguish that he ultimately succumbs to. This shattered my heart... 💔 Jürgen Prochnow and the rest of the cast was incredible.
Buchheim wrote a sequel named "Die Festung" (The Fortress) It´s again about Lt. Werner and the nameless Kapitänleutnant from the first book, who survived his injuries (which was not intended by Buchheim when he wrote the Original ending. It is very clear, that the captain was mortally wounded, and it´s also the last sentence in the book*) *"(...) He opens his mouth like he wants to scream - but finally it´s just blood that spills over his lips"
I saw this movie in the theater when it was released in 1981. I remember on the lobby poster it said "Das Boot", and in smaller print, "The Other Side of World War II". When the air raid siren sounded, I almost jumped out of my seat in shock. I thought, "Oh, no!! After all the crew has been through, they get bombed!" When I left the theater, there was an odd tug at my heart. Even though the Germans were our enemies in WWII, this film portrays them as human beings, doing the job they were ordered to, just like any Allied serviceman. A lot of them didn't make it home, just like a lot of Allied servicemen.
Watching the U-Boat sink was like watching a character slowly die. The submarine was really her own character of sorts. When she died so did her Captain. 😔
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@@Userkinb Incomprehensible! How can you praise this German mendacious propaganda. You should read my comment, then you will understand why this is mendacious propaganda that has nothing to do with historical reality.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@@barfuss2007 I read it in like no time, and that was even when I was only 13. Well ok, back then we didn't have to waste time on facebook and stuff like that. We had the time to read books. :)
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
I watch this with my 3 year old. Hard work going along with ‘goodies vs badies’. Kid loves it though. Do wish they could have just let them go home and get their medals but I guess that’s not how things went. Lots of dead merchant lads of ours on the other side too. They’d have a point of view.
@@TheDaverobinsoneveryone in war is just fighting for their cause, of course the Nazis were evil and commited atrocities beyond measure but there were a lot of soldiers like this just doing their duty and protecting their country
My father was a USN submariner (sonar) at the end of WW II. We watched this when it first came out on VHS. He had a tremendous respect for anyone who volunteered for sub duty - regardless of nationality.
My father, born 1927, had still to be soldier with 16 years in world war II. He told his neighbours would have had two sons, his friends. One son was killed in the Netherlands, the second son, 17 years, was on a submarine. Beginning of April 1945, he was on vacation at home, only a few days before the English army reached our City. The parents said, your brother is dead, the war over in a few days, stay at home, we will hidden you. He answered, yes, the war is over, therefore I will go back to submarine, I do not want, that the German military police caught me and shoot me, a few days for end of the war. I will come back. A few days for end of the war, his submarine had to left the harbour again and it not come back. Dammed war.
there men were attacking unarmed merchant ships, killing unarmed civilians. trying to starve my country and people to death while they brothers were bombing us killing 1,000's , they wiped out more than 1/2 my family. I have nothing but contempt for them.
As impressive as those U Boats are, they are very cramped on the inside. There is a captured German sub, the U-505 on display at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago. If you were tall, you had stay stooped over, so you wouldn't hit your head on all those metal pipes. And there was only 1 latrine available, and no showers and no laundry facilities. At the end of a tour, the mattresses, bedsheets, pillows, blankets and clothes had to be burned, they were gross out filthy. And there was no refrigeration, either. So many times the sailors had to eat spoiled food, even thought the galley cooks tried to disguise it with a lot of flavorings and spices. You have to pay extra to get a guided tour of the inside of the sub, though, but it's worth it.
I once read that when the film was first shown to the British public, some audiences cheered when the information comes up at the beginning stating that of the 40,000 Germans who served on U-boats in WWII, 30,000 did not return -- but those same audiences were silent at the end of the film.
My closest friend from high school (we are now both 62) who's Jewish cheered both the beginning AND this scene. A bit morbid and cold hearted but he is a good guy.
Imagine going on the long patrol for many months facing certain death many times over and barely surviving. Only to come all the way home for a heroes welcome and then seconds later see your comrades get killed in an British Airaid. Definitely set the whole tone for the ending for the reality of what they faced
Imagine going on the long Atlantic Crossing facing certain death many times over and barely surviving and being sunk by a U-Boat, which was the reality of what the Merchant Marine faced.
@@BradBrassman is this an attempt to undermine what german sailors went through? it was a hard job for the sailors of BOTH sides. we can sympathize for the sailors of both sides. theres always that guy on youtube who needs to come into the comments and do damage control any time someone compliments or feels sympathy for someone or something thats german from ww2. german soldiers and sailors were people too. they happened to be born in a certain place and time and answered their countries call when war broke out like many other people from all around the world at this time. politicians start wars, the soldiers just get sent to fight it. respect to the men of both sides for having balls of hardened steel.
@@BradBrassman Th person modern person in western society are only concern about their personal beliefs and feelings. They have not concern that everyone of those SOB were nationalist socialist much in kind to the democrats of today.
Extraordinary film. Saw it when it first came out in the theater; found the DVD years later. Watch it every couple years now. Sad the way it had to end the way it did. Just think how horrible WAR is for all sides . Millions of lives lost in such cruel ways .
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@@gaffgarion7049 How do you look at the mass suffering and feel elated in victory? You can only mourn that any fighting happened at all, no matter how just it seemed
I could not agree more. After what the captain and his crew endured, even limping back to a supposably safe refuge, all of it was for naught. The sight of the skipper watching his beloved ship vanquished in the end was to me one of the saddest scenes in the entire movie. I remember watching this movie when I was still in the navy. I think Prochnow is one of THE greatest actors of all time.
@@flashesofblack4128 I saw this back in 81 I was 6 years old and there is where I learned the concept alone of the captain going down or dying with his ship couldn't have been more truer. And yes Prochnow deserved much more for his performance.😢
@@flashesofblack4128 yeah poor captain endured sooo much for his nazi terror regime on his mission to conquer the ocean for his supreme leader uncle adolf so sad he had to pay his debt in the end couldnt have that coming
Probably the best war movie for showing the enemy in a sympathetic light. Pretty historically accurate too. Great use of cameras to show the claustrophobic nature of duty inside a U-Boat and the beards, something German submariners took great pride in on returning from a long patrol, since fresh water was at a premium and usually reserved for cooking.
Your claims are nonsense! In this propaganda movie, above all the Nazi soldiers are shown in a sympathetic light. This is a propaganda movie to whitewash the Nazi soldiers. This propaganda is the opposite of historically accurate. This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
I remember it struck me how small, sad and depressing the celebratory reception was compared to the big, upbeat , exuberant ones earlier in the war. Congratulations boys, you didn't die this time.
This was the time just before the US entered the war. The Royal Navy had learned to deal with U-Boats (as we were able to witness through the movie) and as a result, more and more boats never made it back to their bases. That flotilla was likely pretty far from full strength and had most boats out on patrol, so of course the reception of a returning boat would be pretty depressing. Funfact: When the Americans entered the war, the U-Boats experienced some kind of a second spring for a few months because initially the Americans made just the same mistakes as the British did and subsequently left more opportunities for U-Boats to attack Convoys and slip away before the US Navy could pin them down. This of course changed rather quickly with the Americans gaining experience and receiving advise from the British.
I bought the VHS tape in the early 1980’s when it became available..German language, English subtitles..Imwas working a full time job, and attending Graduate School in the evenings.. When I got home @ about 11 pm.. I would pop the video in the VCR and watch it in 1/2 increments before ‘hitting the rack..’ So it took me quite a long time to take in the whole 4 hour video. To me me, one of BEST WWII vids ever made. I still bring it out from time to time.
I am British, my great uncle Ralph was a merchant seaman, torpedoed twice and came ashore in nothing but his underpants! He survived. This movie is one of my absolute favourites because it gives you the perspective from the other side! Young German men ordered out to sea to tackle the Royal Navy and above all sink the goods and supplies that maintain it! Where these men cowardly murderers of unarmed Allied sailors, I say no more than the gigantic armadas of Allied bombers that unleashed millions of tonnes of bombs on German Cities? War has no conscience or sense of understanding!
I once read a saying that "only ants and humans make war on their own kind". It's true! My mother is from Wiesbaden, and she remembers the air raids, running for the basement, going to bed hungry and waking up hungry, there was never enough of anything, and wondering if she would ever see her Papa again (he was in his mid-30s when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, where he was a payroll master). He came home safe and sound, and he never mentioned the war for the rest of his life. Ever. He was disgusted by the whole thing, and just wanted to be with his wife and three little daughters. He hated Hitler and the Nazi Party and wanted nothing to do with them, but, when you got drafted, you had no choice but to obey. Or face lethal consequences. Whether it's Das Boot, or Saving Private Ryan, it makes you realize how nasty war is, friend or foe. 😢
Notably, you mention allied bombing of German cities , by millions tones of bombs , the Germans did the same thing to countless countries , including British, also having the V1 rockets 🚀 and V 2 rockets , jet engine aircraft!, thank god they didn’t get there hands on a nuclear warhead , imagine that !. Terrifying prospect isn’t it .
@@fabianwylie8707 Yes, very. Germany didn't get nuked because they knew they were defeated and surrendered, whereas the Japanese kept on fighting, even after being warned of "prompt and utter destruction". I understand that Germany and Japan were working on nuclear bombs, too! The U.S. was just a few steps ahead of everybody else! Scary, that.
@@lindaoneil5085 Germany was on the lead with the nukes, but when they surrenderd the Americans took over there scientists and bleu prints and stuff. And only from that moment on, the Americans where ahead of the rest.
@@lindaoneil5085 Part of the reason is simply that the first nuclear test (Trinity) was on July 16, 1945, i.e. over two months after Germany surrendered. And in the last months of the war the damage to all substantial German cities was already so extensive that a nuclear detonation might not have been very convincing, whereas Hiroshima had been deliberately left not attacked so that both the USA and Japan could learn what the effects were. After the war ended it was concluded that neither Japan nor Germany had been working very effectively towards a nuclear bomb, although interestingly although the USA "Manhattan Project" was a vast undertaking, Germany actually spent more than that on the V2 rocket program, i.e. only achieving the ability to drop one ton of explosives quite imprecisely into a target area 200 miles away. Also noteworthy is that at the behest of Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt warning of the consequences of Germany creating nuclear weapons - so two Jewish emigres from Nazi-dominated Europe were instrumental in propelling the USA to besting the German efforts.
The ending scene perfectly captures the absolute futility of war. After all they had accomplished, after all they had endured. It all meant , Nothing !
Do you watched Untergang? That film is like Das Boot, but just with Hitler in the movie. Maybe even same good like Wolfgang Petersen movie?! What you think about that?
@@OmarLivesUnderSpace I like german war movies. I can agree with you, because every movie got own quality and theme. The same is like "Das Boot", " Der Untergang", "Stalingrad", ect.
Both disgusting German propaganda movies! By the way, oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
They had been through it before; unlike the returning submariners, they knew what was coming. The contrast between when they first put out to sea and when they returned to port couldn't have been greater.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
How the passing years have dimmed the hatred we felt for the U Boats and now we can view this retelling of a story of one crew and their experiences with a more understanding attitude. This was a brilliant film and captured the different moods of each member of the crew as the war progressed. How they captured the drained, haunted and exhausted looks on their faces at the final homecoming scene, was amazing. The final moment when the Captain watched his boat sink was a perfect ending.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
What to say ? I'm german. My father was a fighter on thr Messerschmitt 109 and downed a lot of bombers between 1941 and 1944. My girlfriend ist french. German: Endlich leben wir endlich im Frieden.
To me what makes Das Boot the greatest war film ever is how it is able to convey that no matter what side you're war will effect us all in the same way, which is why I actually felt terrible for Jurgen Prochnow's character at the end.
well I guess "the war" will effect "us all" a little differently if you are *no* german and *no* member of the german "Herrenrasse" and therefore put in a gas chamber , while germans had not to fear any of that in allied captivity
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227 Dude if you cant appreciate a movie or arts go watch my little pony and suck an israeli dick since you seem to wanting so much...
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
My dad was a torpedomans mate for 12 years on the old ww2 pig boats. He said this was the most realistic german perspective movie ever. He said only Run silent, Run deep was bettet. He went on eternal patrol in May of 2020. God blessed him.
The ending gets me EVERY time! Every time I see this, I get glassy eyed. I say this as a US Navy vet whose late grandfather served in WWII, albeit in the Pacific. I only hope and pray that, in spite of recent world events, we don't fight WWIII. Have we learned nothing?
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@@anne-mariedooley3530 Ridiculous to drivel about warm feelings in connection with Nazi henchmen! Read my comment above and you might realize how absurd this is!
The Captain Lieutenant watching his boat go down is brutal. Imagine surviving all those hardships and privations, only for none of it to matter in the end?
@@MrChewbone69 Or about how Hungary, Romania, Finland, Italy, and Spain recognized the dangers of the Soviet Union enough to join Germany for Operation Barbarossa...
...to go through what these men accomplished...only to be devastated on the day they return home...its heartache at its max...I cried, these brave men are no different than you or myself...I could have been friends with them all... mindless war...The "why" of it all 😪 Thoughts from a not so proud Vietnam vet 😑
They called it the "iron coffin". Very few of these brave men survived. Yes they were our enemy during the war and this film shows both the humanity and futility of war. I respect them entirely. One of the best war movies ever made.
It's a shame that Nazi soldiers survived at all! Your talk is like this movie this is only propaganda designed to incite sympathy for Nazi soldiers. "Iron coffin"? Should one then have pity on Nazi soldiers? One should definitely not feel sorry for these Germans. But instead, one should feel sorry for the 75 million of their victims. This Nazi nation was not only responsible for the deaths of 75 million but also for the destruction of many European cities and the economic ruin of many nations. By the way, oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Great movie, cast and music. One of the best war movies made in my opinion. The only sad thing is, we have wars to make movies about. Not only sad but mad, when will we ever learn. Some greedy bastard starts them and Mr and Mrs Nobody have to fight and pay for them.
@@davidedbrooke9324 While I can agree with the first part of your reply, the second part is so far off the mark, you can't be serious! Unless of course, you and yours, are tucked safely away somewhere, while the rest of the "population" gets killed, maimed and made homeless by those technical advances and inventions. No, wars benefit the "select" few, while everyone else pays the price. Not affected much, get real!
@@imanenigma3348 The population in general obviously. The fresh births after war replaces the losses, it’s perfectly simple. Or else there would not be 7 billion plus humans would there. The damage is quickly repaired look at Germany within one generation for example, Japan too.
@@davidedbrooke9324 Yes the "losers" of the wars get rebuilt, I get that. When I say population, I mean actual people. I think you see numbers.....of people. While you mention Germany and Japan, let's just take civilian deaths in those countries alone, I think you will find the "population" was affected, very much. That is just one war and we have not started counting allied civilian deaths, or the combatants of the countries involved. There are millions of dead people world wide who would disagree with your statements............if only they could.
@@imanenigma3348 So what, I’m talking the big overall picture and you keep with the emotional clap trap. People die, the How and when is irrelevant, they disagree? No they are dead. 🤦♂️
For anyone who does not know, the movie was based on a novel written about a montage of true events (and some made up ones). U96 was sunk In Wilhelmshaven on March 30, 1945 by the US Eighth Air force. She had been a training boat for two yeas and had been decommissioned a month and a half when sunk at the dock. She survived her entire wartime service.
@@nickmail7604 either it was shorter (6 40-45 minutes long episodes) or you are remembering a different show. I mean, do you believe me that this is a scene from a movie, or are you trying to say that it's not?
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Well, Oswald Mosley claimed that UK and Nazis are brothers, but rest of population had some different point of view. By the way russia still call itself 'brothers', 'liberators' and 'one nation' while killing Ukrainians and invading our territory
I saw this when it first came out in a small arts theater in our area: the big theaters wouldn't run it as it was the German version. There was an older man in the lobby with a group of people around him, talking - he had been a u-boat crewman during the war and was attesting to the film's accuracy.
The movie goes back to a novel written bei Lothar-Günther Buchheim who was an actual war correspondent during WW2 and accompanied the real U-96 on a patrol. The names were fictionalized for the movie and Buchheim became Lt. Werner.
@@deadon4847 their duty= killing people for expandatory power interests of criminial fashist governement without questioning anything. But yeah - your right - thats how most men are "doing their jobs"
Indeed it is very moving, but just remember that they were deliberately attacking civilian vessels, most of them carrying the necessities for life. They did not take prisoners and no one could surrender to a U-boat. They were trying to starve people. In photographs my family looked like walking cadavers, they were so short of food. I cheer at the end every time I watch the film.
A USN silent service veteran I work with said he and his buddies went and saw this when it was in theatres. He said he and his fellow submariners were rooting for the crew of U-95 by the end.
Saddest and most tragic ending in history of film making. Combined with Klaus Doldinger´s haunting music it still makes it my all time number one movie
I heard the actors were asked if they want their character to survive or to die at the end, except Jürgen Prochnow (captain) and Herbert Grönemeyer (war reporter). The captain had to die, the reporter had to live, to tell the story.
I had been studying and decided to catch the midnight matinee at the student union. It was snowing on top of already three feet of snow. I had absolutely NO idea what this funny sounding movie was about but went anyway. Wow! German with English subtitles and was done so fabulously well that I never even noticed i was reading the dialogue. Just a great movie. This was November of 1981when it had just been released.
I watched das Boot for the first time some days ago and that ending haunts me. A perfect ending for a masterpiece. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. ❤️🩹
I normally roll my eyes when people give out acting superlatives. But with all honesty, i can say the acting in this film is out of this world especially from the Captain, the Chief & Johan.
As an English child, I think older primary school age, seeing this film and this sequence. It sort of broke my brain (in a good way) a bit in being a key learning moment for my worldview. My father informed me it was the RAF attacking, and in my young mind, the world til that point was split between 'good guys' and 'bad guys'. This ending taught me it wasn't that simple, and while of course the Nazis were villainous and condemned to be evil in history, this story about regular combatants in the war has stuck with me since.
Das Boot was a tv series then. I watched every episode and the details are stunning, it's exactly like a real U boat inside. The set was a real mockup of a U boat which could move violently. Very chilling and interesting story. I was shocked watching the final episode. Everything they experienced was to no avail and for nothing, like war in reality is as well.
The set was not only a real mockup of the original boat, it still is. I visited it twice. You can walk through it at the bavaria film studios in Munich. All metal, dark, narrow - a true nightmare if you imagine life inside such a thing and everyone around out to kill you.
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227 Dude if you cant appreciate a movie go watch my little pony and suck some israeli dick since you seem to wanting that.
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227this is such a stupid way of thinking. Only because germany started the war, EVERY german soldier is guilty and should not be seen as a human being. Just accept that there were decent human beings on both sides and that they all endured one hell of a war and deserve respect for that.
@@nickste142 so decent human beeings invade other countries? With military force? Raid and sack other cities? Killing civilians? putting people into "polish showers" and making soap out of them afterwards? that is what human beeings do? what they deserve respect for? But i do see your point there - the buzz in it started to fade away as soon as the other attacked countries started to fight back What a horrible situation for the Invaders this must have been for germans. and how unfair that their enemies fired back with real guns
My brother and I watched this in a theater when it first came out, German with subtitles. The music does a fantastic job of meshing with the action. The music as they are heading back, straining to get home, is totally compelling.
As a child I visited the Bavaria Filmstudios which produced the movie. I was to young to watch the movie back then, and had never heard of it, but they still had the complete internal replica of the U-boot. At least to me as a child, it was like visiting a real submarine. And a surprising amount of it is real metal, not just painted plywood.
At 4:26, as the wounded man is being carried up, one of the sailors says to him "The sun is shining." They had that sentence as Sophie Scholl's last words in "Sophie Scholl: Die Letzen Tage."
except sophie scholl was fighting and opposing nazi terror regime like a true hero and those soldiers...well. Were fighting *for* the nazi terror regime like the...whatever you want to call it, what they were
My cousin's grandfather from Dublin was master of the merchantman Silvercedar on the Atlantic Convoys when she was sunk by U553 in 1941. He was lost, with 18 crew, 2 gunners and a passenger. U553 disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic in 1943 and is believed to have sunk with all hands following a technical problem. My uncle was born 8 months after Silvercedar was lost, so he never got to meet his father. There are no winners.
I dont understand one sign of your letter, but I am sure you love this movie. If you are Japanese or not, I dont know, but you must know that is probably the best european war movie ever. And about our exallies from ww2. Bye!
The cinematogrophy trick with the admiral coming into scene and the camera following him to lure the viewer into thinking we’re about to see an exchange between the admiral and cpt heinrich. You think your about to see somes sort of summary of the movie just to to have the fanfare interupted by the air/raid-klaxon is so fucking great. I love this movie.
This ending is what made me appreciate how much this is an anti-war film. You feel happy when the men overcome their predicament and arrive in the harbor, but war is not happy ending and good feelings. No matter if something “good” happens, war always results in death and destruction, regardless of how good you feel
I remember watching the tv version in the late 80s or early 90s as a kid and being hooked by it. I remember feeling so sad that having been through all that they did that it ended like that for them. Having subsequently been to the film studio in Munich where it was made and walked through the full size submarine set I’ve no idea how those lads got through endless weeks at sea stuck in one of those.
Awesome anecdote, @kartdriver2009! I might have guided you through the submarine model (and rest of the BavariaFilm premises) as I worked as tour guide there for almost a decade :) When did you visit? Cheers
@@calebh7902 There's no drinking on a German submarine. And there definitely was no drinking on it during the war, unless the Captain explicitly allowed it. However, traditionally there is always one box of beer on a submarine - for when they return to port. That tradition still exists today.
Actually, the U-96 was sunk in the very end of the war at 45, after having been retired from front line service for more than two years. And the captain of U-96, fregattenkapitan Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock survived the war and was consulting the filmmaking, died a few years after the film was released. But, great film still. One of the best, if not the best. Despite of inaccuracies.
Both the entire film and the final scene are perfect... they reflect how brutal and hellish war is. The scene when the captain sees the submarine sink and dies is immortal.
This is one of the two best WW2 naval films that have been made, the other being The Cruel Sea. Even as someone who is British, the end scene makes me extremely sad: these men were heroes despite the evil of the regime they fought for. They just did their duty and they deserved a better fate.
Some facts: The captain was actually Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. He served as an ensign on the "Karlsruhe", later trained officers for the Reichsmarine. He then took over an old U5 before being promoted to Lieutenant First Grade (Kapitänleutnant zur See) and finally got the command of U96, on which the movie plays, later U305 (he actually survived the harbor attack ...) and after the war of the "Otto Hahn", the first and only German freighter that had an atomic reactor as main energy source. The Ensign who was present on U96 (which ran on ground not as spectacular as shown to over 280 meter ever, but actually did two times at a depth of 50 and 70 meter) was Buchheim, the author of "Das Boot" which was the novel behind this movie. Willenbrock and Buchheim were good friends and the captain was actually a mentor of Buchheim and proof read his novel after it was finished. But their friendship ended in 1986, when Willenbrock spoke very positive about the German submariners without any critics on the political background of the Nazi war they participated in. Buchheim was disgusted by that and told that to his former idol. Only weeks after, Willenbrock, "the old man", finally died, after he had actually received the German Federal Cross of Merit a decade earlier, the highest civil medal you can ever achieve in our country. Buchheim died in 2007. Their friendship was destroyed by the fact that Buchheim distanced himself from everything the Wehrmacht had made him do while Willenbrock, albeit never a convinced Nazi, stayed fond of the Wehrmacht and defended their actions, especially the submarine force. After everything we learned from Buchheim, I gotta come to the conclusion, that he was the one who was right.
when I first saw this ending when I younger It made me sick to my stomach and made me realize how good movies could be. Sure a lot of movies can illicit a feeling of, emotional sadness or joy but this was the first one to make me feel pure disillusionment and disgust and that's because of just how well it was executed. Just pure random tragedy of them docking just as an air raid happens after the crew survived hell against the odds.
Before I watched this film, I could never have imagined to ever hate the allies. Being British, I naturally lean toward the allies in war films. But this film got you so invested in the characters, you lived and breathed their ups and downs. You were elated when they made it home. Then the allies attack by air and most of them die and the boat sinks, after having endured and survived so much. For that moment you despise the allies. That is good movie making.
Haven't watched the movie....does it show this u-boat sinking merchant shipping and leaving thousands of men to die in the water...or surfacing and shooting the survivors in cold blood? Because that's what really happened. No sympathy for them.
@@arthapeterson5239 Since you didn't watch the movie, they also showed how they sank a ship with a "Fangschuss" (a final torpedo to make the ship sink), assuming that the allies would have rescued the people on board by then. As they realized there were actually people on board, they were crying, as they couldn't rescue them. Just one little advise to you: don't make comments about a movie you haven't watched. Wars are cruel and no nation has been a saint in history. In a way, in particular with this ending, it is a anti war movie.
I could not have said it any better...I cried as you cannot help but feel the agony and helplessness they endured...We're Going Home !!! only to die...
@@arthapeterson5239 Indeed, there are without doubt many incidents were Germans committed unspeakable atrocities, but also many incidents where Germans have shown resistance and helped victims of the 3rd Reich. In that context a lot of the resistance came actually from within the German army (e.g. Stauffenberg, among others). But in a fascist autocratic regime resistance is difficult as can be sadly witnessed today in Russia. If Trump wins the next election, the US might head into that direction too. The point is that you made a fool out of yourself by making a comment about a movie you have not even seen and could not possibly get the message behind it just from short clips on youtube.
without a doubt this is the best submarine film of all time. nothing else comes close to this for authenticity, and the superb acting. jurgen prochnows finest hour. oscars all round for this masterpiece.
love the ending.. they survive being hunted by the RN only to die from an air raid by the RAF.. and they did not even complete their welcome home ceremony..
Greatest submarine movie in cinematic history 10/10
100 percent fact
To me, it's the greatest WWII movie.
Total agree , respect to all submariners, what ever sides they were on. Brilliant in the making 🎥
@@karga23 To me, it's the greatest movie. Simply. Just because it feels like you're really there, not a single cringe line, ethos, dumb holywood moments. Pure.
Down periscope, I’m a submariner, but this is a close, close second
This ending is perfection. War is hell, and death happens to anyone, in a senseless way. A true classic. RIP Wolfgang Petersen.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
And Germans were humans too.
This ending sort of ruined the somewhat realistic (not very accurate by many aspects) atmosphere of movie.
St. Nazaire probably had very likely more AA guns than whole Berlin. It was never attacked in widescale daytime air raid.
@@KretinoSantino The movie had one of the biggest budgets of any German movie ever. Blowing a whole lot more for a few seconds would have been hard to justify. This was before the days where you could add as many AAA as you wanted via CGI. Just like they had to do with what planes they could get their hands on. And the scene was supposed to take place in La Rochelle
In general, the ending of the movie was close to the book
@@KretinoSantino Unrealistic? The entire movie is unrealistic propaganda. As I have explained in detail in my comment above.
The Captain was the soul of the boat, the iron will that got it and the crew through every battle, and the boat was the beating heart of the Captain. Neither could live without the other.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@hardstyle905 So you agree with this nonsense that glorifies Nazi soldiers.
In any case, the glorification of Nazi soldiers is pathetic!
They were heroes who fought against the evil of globalism which is communism. Unlike the allies who supported communism.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Not every German soldier was a Nazi, and the officers and men of the Kriegsmarine even less so. Try reading history before you speak again.
@@LordZontar not every german in ww2 was a nazi do you know about th u-156 they tried to save the people of the laconia but they were attacked by the americans with a big red cross flag in the side of the u-boot,learn some history
Notice the three shots of the Captain's face as he watches his U-boat go under. His expression in the first is complete shock, the second is abject sorrow, while the last is a debilitating culmination of mental and physical anguish that he ultimately succumbs to. This shattered my heart... 💔
Jürgen Prochnow and the rest of the cast was incredible.
He expressed a great deal. I think he also saw the end of the Reich as it sank.
Much like a fat persons reaction after arriving at the doughnut shop only to see a " Sold out" sign on the door .
Buchheim wrote a sequel named "Die Festung" (The Fortress)
It´s again about Lt. Werner and the nameless Kapitänleutnant from the first book, who survived his injuries (which was not intended by Buchheim when he wrote the Original ending. It is very clear, that the captain was mortally wounded, and it´s also the last sentence in the book*)
*"(...) He opens his mouth like he wants to scream - but finally it´s just blood that spills over his lips"
I saw this movie in the theater when it was released in 1981. I remember on the lobby poster it said "Das Boot", and in smaller print, "The Other Side of World War II".
When the air raid siren sounded, I almost jumped out of my seat in shock. I thought, "Oh, no!! After all the crew has been through, they get bombed!" When I left the theater, there was an odd tug at my heart. Even though the Germans were our enemies in WWII, this film portrays them as human beings, doing the job they were ordered to, just like any Allied serviceman. A lot of them didn't make it home, just like a lot of Allied servicemen.
The boat was his life. When it died, he died.
Watching the U-Boat sink was like watching a character slowly die. The submarine was really her own character of sorts. When she died so did her Captain. 😔
He watched his crew die before submarine. Submarine was one who broke Camel's back. His lungs seem to be penetrated, so he might have died anyway.
@@DailyLifeSolution Was he ripped through by those planes shooting down
The Captain and the boat were one. Metaphysically they were welded together, merged. The death of the One is what we see here.
The captain always goes down with the ship, no matter what.
Plottwist: He isnt dead 😉 it is a book trilogy and he will reappear later as the captain of an icebreaker
The irony of surviving ALL the underwater perils, only to die on land where the sun is shining is just genius! I rate it 20 out of 10!
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Oh the irony!
Agreed 😊
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Finally, at the very end, he gets a real war movie
Jürgen Prochnow was outstanding as the captain! Should have won an Oscar. He’s 81 now. RIP Wolfgang Petersen, died August 12 this year.
JP was incredibly good, absolutely Oscar worthy.
@@guslakis definitely!
He was great in Beerfest!
@@kimber1911 you’re reminding me October is coming. OKTOBERFEST, jajajaja!
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Rest in peace Wolfgang Peterson, director of das Boot. A truly outstanding WW2 movie.
Agree totally. 😞
He is gone?, how sad for the movie world.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Best Submarine movies all time.
@@Userkinb Incomprehensible! How can you praise this German mendacious propaganda. You should read my comment, then you will understand why this is mendacious propaganda that has nothing to do with historical reality.
There are many great U boat films but none come close to this epic Masterpiece.
Agreed, I've always felt this one was the best.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Not just submarine films, but the best war movie ever.
@@Harte74
and the book is even better than the movie 🙂
@@barfuss2007 I read it in like no time, and that was even when I was only 13. Well ok, back then we didn't have to waste time on facebook and stuff like that. We had the time to read books. :)
I swear this one kicked me in the gut when it finished. I've seen this one multiple times and it always gets me.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
I too have seen the movie multiple times. I have the director's cut on DVD. Even so, the ending brings me to tears...
I watch this with my 3 year old. Hard work going along with ‘goodies vs badies’. Kid loves it though. Do wish they could have just let them go home and get their medals but I guess that’s not how things went. Lots of dead merchant lads of ours on the other side too. They’d have a point of view.
@@TheDaverobinsoneveryone in war is just fighting for their cause, of course the Nazis were evil and commited atrocities beyond measure but there were a lot of soldiers like this just doing their duty and protecting their country
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Friedrich Grade just died five days ago, one of the last from the original submarine U96 .He died at the age of 107. RIP Friedrich😓
thankyou for telling us.
Wow! Ein stolzes Alter! - Wow ! A proud age!
My father was a USN submariner (sonar) at the end of WW II. We watched this when it first came out on VHS. He had a tremendous respect for anyone who volunteered for sub duty - regardless of nationality.
My father, born 1927, had still to be soldier with 16 years in world war II. He told his neighbours would have had two sons, his friends. One son was killed in the Netherlands, the second son, 17 years, was on a submarine. Beginning of April 1945, he was on vacation at home, only a few days before the English army reached our City. The parents said, your brother is dead, the war over in a few days, stay at home, we will hidden you. He answered, yes, the war is over, therefore I will go back to submarine, I do not want, that the German military police caught me and shoot me, a few days for end of the war. I will come back. A few days for end of the war, his submarine had to left the harbour again and it not come back. Dammed war.
@@stefan-1899 damn thats awful
there men were attacking unarmed merchant ships, killing unarmed civilians. trying to starve my country and people to death while they brothers were bombing us killing 1,000's , they wiped out more than 1/2 my family. I have nothing but contempt for them.
@@DarrenMalin Friends and European allies now thank christ !!!
As impressive as those U Boats are, they are very cramped on the inside. There is a captured German sub, the U-505 on display at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago. If you were tall, you had stay stooped over, so you wouldn't hit your head on all those metal pipes. And there was only 1 latrine available, and no showers and no laundry facilities. At the end of a tour, the mattresses, bedsheets, pillows, blankets and clothes had to be burned, they were gross out filthy. And there was no refrigeration, either. So many times the sailors had to eat spoiled food, even thought the galley cooks tried to disguise it with a lot of flavorings and spices. You have to pay extra to get a guided tour of the inside of the sub, though, but it's worth it.
I once read that when the film was first shown to the British public, some audiences cheered when the information comes up at the beginning stating that of the 40,000 Germans who served on U-boats in WWII, 30,000 did not return -- but those same audiences were silent at the end of the film.
I cannot blame the Brits for this. I couldn't have joined in their cheers, but I cannot blame them.
The United States Navy lost about the same amount of sailors who served in the “ silent service “ only them historical facts are Judy…..
Bomber Command lost more men. War is hell.
My closest friend from high school (we are now both 62) who's Jewish cheered both the beginning AND this scene. A bit morbid and cold hearted but he is a good guy.
@@jameskirk578 Война - это ад.
That look on the Captain's face watching his boat sink....... Absolutely gut-wrenching........................
One of the best films ever made. The quality of the actors was unparalleled.
They were all too old.
@@MarkHarrison733 they were all in their 20's
exept for "the old"
@@TexasChilliMassacre The actors were middle-aged in this revisionist left-wing film.
@@MarkHarrison733 the Captains and higher ranks were middle aged,but the nornal crew was in their 20's.
@@TexasChilliMassacre The real captain was only in his 20s.
Imagine going on the long patrol for many months facing certain death many times over and barely surviving. Only to come all the way home for a heroes welcome and then seconds later see your comrades get killed in an British Airaid. Definitely set the whole tone for the ending for the reality of what they faced
Imagine going on the long Atlantic Crossing facing certain death many times over and barely surviving and being sunk by a U-Boat, which was the reality of what the Merchant Marine faced.
@@BradBrassman and your death was a burial at sea, which means your body could never be returned to your family for a proper burial.
@@BradBrassman And how do you think the Germans felt? Do you think it only goes both ways?
@@BradBrassman is this an attempt to undermine what german sailors went through? it was a hard job for the sailors of BOTH sides. we can sympathize for the sailors of both sides. theres always that guy on youtube who needs to come into the comments and do damage control any time someone compliments or feels sympathy for someone or something thats german from ww2.
german soldiers and sailors were people too. they happened to be born in a certain place and time and answered their countries call when war broke out like many other people from all around the world at this time. politicians start wars, the soldiers just get sent to fight it. respect to the men of both sides for having balls of hardened steel.
@@BradBrassman Th person modern person in western society are only concern about their personal beliefs and feelings. They have not concern that everyone of those SOB were nationalist socialist much in kind to the democrats of today.
There aren't too many movies that can make you feel triumph and despair within minutes of each other. That and be made from an "enemy" point of view.
you feel triumph for nazi soldiers?
Rest in peace Wolfgang Peterson. Thank you for such an incredible film.
In this context it is particularly important to wish rest in peace for millions of victims of the Nazi nation
I am not ashamed to admit that i cried at the end of this movie.
Only a real man cries at the end of this movie.
@@mattsmith7019 true story
Türk ağlamaz dostum….
i cried over the high prices of tickets,popcorn,sodas
Extraordinary film. Saw it when it first came out in the theater; found the DVD years later.
Watch it every couple years now.
Sad the way it had to end the way it did. Just think how horrible WAR is for all sides .
Millions of lives lost in such cruel ways .
There is one thing all wars share. There are no winners.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
@@TheUmbrella1976 Like hell there arent.
@@gaffgarion7049 How do you look at the mass suffering and feel elated in victory? You can only mourn that any fighting happened at all, no matter how just it seemed
@@gaffgarion7049 Child.
Jürgen Prochnow's face on watching the sub sink is a tear jerker even to this day😢
I could not agree more. After what the captain and his crew endured, even limping back to a supposably safe refuge, all of it was for naught. The sight of the skipper watching his beloved ship vanquished in the end was to me one of the saddest scenes in the entire movie. I remember watching this movie when I was still in the navy. I think Prochnow is one of THE greatest actors of all time.
@@flashesofblack4128 I saw this back in 81 I was 6 years old and there is where I learned the concept alone of the captain going down or dying with his ship couldn't have been more truer. And yes Prochnow deserved much more for his performance.😢
I think he died of a broken heart, more than anything else. 💔
@@lindaoneil5085 Yeah just anguish alone can do it
@@flashesofblack4128 yeah
poor captain endured sooo much for his nazi terror regime on his mission to conquer the ocean for his supreme leader uncle adolf
so sad he had to pay his debt in the end
couldnt have that coming
Probably the best war movie for showing the enemy in a sympathetic light. Pretty historically accurate too. Great use of cameras to show the claustrophobic nature of duty inside a U-Boat and the beards, something German submariners took great pride in on returning from a long patrol, since fresh water was at a premium and usually reserved for cooking.
Your claims are nonsense! In this propaganda movie, above all the Nazi soldiers are shown in a sympathetic light. This is a propaganda movie to whitewash the Nazi soldiers. This propaganda is the opposite of historically accurate. This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
The film doesn't show "the enemy," though. It's a German film from a German perspective.
@@maltehenryk1409 "Enemy" from a non-German perspective.
I remember it struck me how small, sad and depressing the celebratory reception was compared to the big, upbeat , exuberant ones earlier in the war. Congratulations boys, you didn't die this time.
This was the time just before the US entered the war. The Royal Navy had learned to deal with U-Boats (as we were able to witness through the movie) and as a result, more and more boats never made it back to their bases. That flotilla was likely pretty far from full strength and had most boats out on patrol, so of course the reception of a returning boat would be pretty depressing.
Funfact: When the Americans entered the war, the U-Boats experienced some kind of a second spring for a few months because initially the Americans made just the same mistakes as the British did and subsequently left more opportunities for U-Boats to attack Convoys and slip away before the US Navy could pin them down. This of course changed rather quickly with the Americans gaining experience and receiving advise from the British.
I bought the VHS tape in the early 1980’s when it became available..German language, English subtitles..Imwas working a full time job, and attending Graduate School in the evenings..
When I got home @ about 11 pm.. I would pop the video in the VCR and watch it in 1/2 increments before ‘hitting the rack..’
So it took me quite a long time to take in the whole 4 hour video.
To me me, one of BEST WWII vids ever made.
I still bring it out from time to time.
No matter how many times I watch this film, I always think "Maybe this time they'll survive."
I am British, my great uncle Ralph was a merchant seaman, torpedoed twice and came ashore in nothing but his underpants! He survived. This movie is one of my absolute favourites because it gives you the perspective from the other side! Young German men ordered out to sea to tackle the Royal Navy and above all sink the goods and supplies that maintain it! Where these men cowardly murderers of unarmed Allied sailors, I say no more than the gigantic armadas of Allied bombers that unleashed millions of tonnes of bombs on German Cities? War has no conscience or sense of understanding!
I once read a saying that "only ants and humans make war on their own kind". It's true!
My mother is from Wiesbaden, and she remembers the air raids, running for the basement, going to bed hungry and waking up hungry, there was never enough of anything, and wondering if she would ever see her Papa again (he was in his mid-30s when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, where he was a payroll master). He came home safe and sound, and he never mentioned the war for the rest of his life. Ever. He was disgusted by the whole thing, and just wanted to be with his wife and three little daughters. He hated Hitler and the Nazi Party and wanted nothing to do with them, but, when you got drafted, you had no choice but to obey. Or face lethal consequences. Whether it's Das Boot, or Saving Private Ryan, it makes you realize how nasty war is, friend or foe. 😢
Notably, you mention allied bombing of German cities , by millions tones of bombs , the Germans did the same thing to countless countries , including British, also having the V1 rockets 🚀 and V 2 rockets , jet engine aircraft!, thank god they didn’t get there hands on a nuclear warhead , imagine that !. Terrifying prospect isn’t it .
@@fabianwylie8707 Yes, very. Germany didn't get nuked because they knew they were defeated and surrendered, whereas the Japanese kept on fighting, even after being warned of "prompt and utter destruction".
I understand that Germany and Japan were working on nuclear bombs, too! The U.S. was just a few steps ahead of everybody else! Scary, that.
@@lindaoneil5085 Germany was on the lead with the nukes, but when they surrenderd the Americans took over there scientists and bleu prints and stuff. And only from that moment on, the Americans where ahead of the rest.
@@lindaoneil5085 Part of the reason is simply that the first nuclear test (Trinity) was on July 16, 1945, i.e. over two months after Germany surrendered. And in the last months of the war the damage to all substantial German cities was already so extensive that a nuclear detonation might not have been very convincing, whereas Hiroshima had been deliberately left not attacked so that both the USA and Japan could learn what the effects were. After the war ended it was concluded that neither Japan nor Germany had been working very effectively towards a nuclear bomb, although interestingly although the USA "Manhattan Project" was a vast undertaking, Germany actually spent more than that on the V2 rocket program, i.e. only achieving the ability to drop one ton of explosives quite imprecisely into a target area 200 miles away. Also noteworthy is that at the behest of Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt warning of the consequences of Germany creating nuclear weapons - so two Jewish emigres from Nazi-dominated Europe were instrumental in propelling the USA to besting the German efforts.
One of the best war films ever..from start to finish. Great characters. What an ending!
The ending scene perfectly captures the absolute futility of war. After all they had accomplished, after all they had endured. It all meant , Nothing !
Do you watched Untergang? That film is like Das Boot, but just with Hitler in the movie. Maybe even same good like Wolfgang Petersen movie?! What you think about that?
@@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh
It's not remotely like "Das Boot", but it's another good movie on its own way
@@OmarLivesUnderSpace I like german war movies. I can agree with you, because every movie got own quality and theme. The same is like "Das Boot", " Der Untergang", "Stalingrad", ect.
Both disgusting German propaganda movies! By the way, oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Yeah, all those sailors they put in the ice cold water, meant nothing. Boo hoo kreig is hell.
5:15 The screams of those civilians and sailors as they see whats coming gives me chills every time.
They had been through it before; unlike the returning submariners, they knew what was coming. The contrast between when they first put out to sea and when they returned to port couldn't have been greater.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
That is what I remember from Das Boot, the audio, still dubbed or what I know of it those days
This is funny
How the passing years have dimmed the hatred we felt for the U Boats and now we can view this retelling of a story of one crew and their experiences with a more understanding attitude. This was a brilliant film and captured the different moods of each member of the crew as the war progressed. How they captured the drained, haunted and exhausted looks on their faces at the final homecoming scene, was amazing. The final moment when the Captain watched his boat sink was a perfect ending.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
What to say ?
I'm german. My father was a fighter on thr Messerschmitt 109 and downed a lot of bombers between 1941 and 1944.
My girlfriend ist french.
German: Endlich leben wir endlich im Frieden.
Allied submarines did the same thing. It's absurd to hate the german ones.
@@naverilllang
My fater was just a fighter on a Me 109 in WW2..
You think he want to kill peuple ?
No.
It was just business
The ending is so sadly perfect.
Sadly? It is great they killed them!
whats sad about the failing german war machine?
They sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind
@@boredfartless4221 exactly!
@@boredfartless4221 originality.exe not found
To me what makes Das Boot the greatest war film ever is how it is able to convey that no matter what side you're war will effect us all in the same way, which is why I actually felt terrible for Jurgen Prochnow's character at the end.
well I guess "the war" will effect "us all" a little differently if you are *no* german and *no* member of the german "Herrenrasse" and therefore put in a gas chamber , while germans had not to fear any of that in allied captivity
Agreed. This film portrayed the crew as men doing a job. Pure and simple. Not evil, or mean. Just men doing a job.
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227 Dude if you cant appreciate a movie or arts go watch my little pony and suck an israeli dick since you seem to wanting so much...
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227, so you kindda hate all germans because of what the insane parts of the country comitted of warcrimes?
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
My dad was a torpedomans mate for 12 years on the old ww2 pig boats. He said this was the most realistic german perspective movie ever. He said only Run silent, Run deep was bettet. He went on eternal patrol in May of 2020. God blessed him.
May your dad rest in peace, and let him know I thank him for his service. He earned his wings. ❤💐
God bless your dad..
The ending gets me EVERY time! Every time I see this, I get glassy eyed. I say this as a US Navy vet whose late grandfather served in WWII, albeit in the Pacific. I only hope and pray that, in spite of recent world events, we don't fight WWIII. Have we learned nothing?
The best submarine movie EVER! I watched just once, but I've always wanted to watch it again...
Probably one of the best war movie ever made!
It’s in the top 5
For sure , a bridge to far was epic , longest day , but I have to agree with you a magnificently made movie 🎥
By far the greatest war movie ever made. No heroes or villains, just 2 opposing sides in the war.
I agree 100% and I think simmilar like you. So, I am not crazy?! It is true!
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
Agree. I warmed to the men in the submarine, yet wanted to see the RAF being victorious. It was a strange mix of emotions.
@@anne-mariedooley3530 Ridiculous to drivel about warm feelings in connection with Nazi henchmen! Read my comment above and you might realize how absurd this is!
It is (probably) the greatest, but not because of that
Rest In Peace Herr Petersen this movie is one of your most brilliant of all. 100% classic
Haven't seen a better movie than this. It's not just a movie. It's the real thing.
The Captain Lieutenant watching his boat go down is brutal. Imagine surviving all those hardships and privations, only for none of it to matter in the end?
Not only that, but it didn't even go down honorably in battle. It was sunk in a dock not fighting anybody.
From the character's perspective, sure.
But it gave us, the audience, a new perspective. So it did matter.
That was the point of the movie.
Any movie that can make you cheer and cry for the Germans in WWII has got something special going for it!!
It'd be cool to see a movie about the battle for Castle Itter...
@@MrChewbone69 Or about how Hungary, Romania, Finland, Italy, and Spain recognized the dangers of the Soviet Union enough to join Germany for Operation Barbarossa...
(and cry for the Germans) Yes, you're screwed up to sympathize with these fascist murderers.
They're not nazis so it's easier. I take them over the Russians any day.
@@MrChewbone69 yeah the wet dream of every other apologetism of german war machine
Oh look how the ..."good" germans fought the "bad" germans....
Not.
Rest in peace Wolfgang Petersen
In this context it is particularly important to wish rest in peace for millions of victims of the Nazi nation.
The Captian went with his ship,,,,,,This movie put you through so much!
5 hour version is so worth watching. Beautiful.
...to go through what these men accomplished...only to be devastated on the day they return home...its heartache at its max...I cried, these brave men are no different than you or myself...I could have been friends with them all...
mindless war...The "why" of it all 😪 Thoughts from a not so proud Vietnam vet 😑
I certainly hope that "these" man are a lot different than me and you
for what they have....."accomplished"
They called it the "iron coffin". Very few of these brave men survived. Yes they were our enemy during the war and this film shows both the humanity and futility of war. I respect them entirely. One of the best war movies ever made.
It's a shame that Nazi soldiers survived at all! Your talk is like this movie this is only propaganda designed to incite sympathy for Nazi soldiers. "Iron coffin"? Should one then have pity on Nazi soldiers? One should definitely not feel sorry for these Germans. But instead, one should feel sorry for the 75 million of their victims. This Nazi nation was not only responsible for the deaths of 75 million but also for the destruction of many European cities and the economic ruin of many nations.
By the way, oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
For those wondering the song the band is playing at the port is Erzherzog Albrecht March 3:18
Gracias, lo busqué varias veces y no lo encontraba.🇦🇷👍
Thank you, I was wondering what march that was.
Great movie, cast and music.
One of the best war movies made in my opinion.
The only sad thing is, we have wars to make movies about.
Not only sad but mad, when will we ever learn.
Some greedy bastard starts them and Mr and Mrs Nobody
have to fight and pay for them.
Wars supply technical advances and invention, the population is not affected much.
@@davidedbrooke9324
While I can agree with the first part of your reply,
the second part is so far off the mark, you can't be serious!
Unless of course, you and yours, are tucked safely away somewhere,
while the rest of the "population" gets killed, maimed and made homeless
by those technical advances and inventions.
No, wars benefit the "select" few, while everyone else pays the price.
Not affected much, get real!
@@imanenigma3348 The population in general obviously. The fresh births after war replaces the losses, it’s perfectly simple. Or else there would not be 7 billion plus humans would there. The damage is quickly repaired look at Germany within one generation for example, Japan too.
@@davidedbrooke9324
Yes the "losers" of the wars get rebuilt, I get that.
When I say population, I mean actual people.
I think you see numbers.....of people.
While you mention Germany and Japan,
let's just take civilian deaths in those countries alone,
I think you will find the "population" was affected, very much.
That is just one war and we have not started counting
allied civilian deaths, or the combatants of the countries involved.
There are millions of dead people world wide who would disagree
with your statements............if only they could.
@@imanenigma3348 So what, I’m talking the big overall picture and you keep with the emotional clap trap. People die, the How and when is irrelevant, they disagree? No they are dead. 🤦♂️
For anyone who does not know, the movie was based on a novel written about a montage of true events (and some made up ones). U96 was sunk In Wilhelmshaven on March 30, 1945 by the US Eighth Air force. She had been a training boat for two yeas and had been decommissioned a month and a half when sunk at the dock. She survived her entire wartime service.
It wasnt a film it was a TV series
@@nickmail7604 Das Boot was originally a war film. It was exhibited as both a theatrical release and a series. The UK released mini series came later.
@@nickmail7604 its a short, four and a half hour long film, surely anyone can make it in one sitting without a break (i know i can)
@@Bradley_UA I watched it when it first came out and it was a TV series, each episode an hour long and there were at least 10 episodes.
@@nickmail7604 either it was shorter (6 40-45 minutes long episodes) or you are remembering a different show. I mean, do you believe me that this is a scene from a movie, or are you trying to say that it's not?
This is one movie that always stuck with me.
Especially the ending. Its almost poetic in a grim way.
As an Englishman and a Royal Navy veteran, watching this leaves me with one thought: 'no more brother wars'
GREAT BRITAIN DECLARE GERMANY THE WAR BUT NOT GERMANY THE WAR TO THE KINGDOM .
Yes, it's easy to K*ll people who don't look like you. Thanks, colonizer.
Oh how terrible! The German soldiers can no longer fight and kill for the German Nazi government! Disgusting! This propaganda movie has nothing to do with reality! The German submarine sailors and especially the captains were heroes to the German Nazi propaganda. They were heroes of Nazi propaganda and they were very happy to be! In this German propaganda movie the opposite is shown and these Nazi soldiers are turned in this movie into heroes who were actually opponents of the German Nazi government. Really evil, mendacious propaganda! If one look closely. One can't see a swastika under the eagles on their caps. If one wonders why. A Swastika on the cap does not suit to a German heroes. The Nazi submarine sailors and officers played a special role in German propaganda. They were the heroes of the entire nation and they enjoyed the bang. There were especially many honors for them also receptions. They were courted like movie stars. All Germans loved them as heroes! In this movie they are actually treated like stars, there is also a reception in honor of the officer on a cruise ship. But our German heroes in this mendacious movie are of course only disgusted by the pomp. Propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.
What do you mean by brother?
Well, Oswald Mosley claimed that UK and Nazis are brothers, but rest of population had some different point of view. By the way russia still call itself 'brothers', 'liberators' and 'one nation' while killing Ukrainians and invading our territory
I saw this when it first came out in a small arts theater in our area: the big theaters wouldn't run it as it was the German version. There was an older man in the lobby with a group of people around him, talking - he had been a u-boat crewman during the war and was attesting to the film's accuracy.
The movie goes back to a novel written bei Lothar-Günther Buchheim who was an actual war correspondent during WW2 and accompanied the real U-96 on a patrol. The names were fictionalized for the movie and Buchheim became Lt. Werner.
Amazingly well made series - still going strong 40 - 50 years later.
I think the chernobyl series will be the same in 40 years
Incredibly powerful movie, you so much want these boys to get home safely. The ending is shattering.
I dont know if thats a good thing, that the movie has rooting you for the germans
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227 Soldiers doing their duty, men doing their jobs.
@@deadon4847 their duty= killing people for expandatory power interests of criminial fashist governement without questioning anything.
But yeah - your right - thats how most men are "doing their jobs"
Indeed it is very moving, but just remember that they were deliberately attacking civilian vessels, most of them carrying the necessities for life. They did not take prisoners and no one could surrender to a U-boat. They were trying to starve people. In photographs my family looked like walking cadavers, they were so short of food. I cheer at the end every time I watch the film.
@@christopherquinn5899 righteously so
They literally survived everything just to be killed on land! What a sad ending to an excellent movie!
A USN silent service veteran I work with said he and his buddies went and saw this when it was in theatres. He said he and his fellow submariners were rooting for the crew of U-95 by the end.
Saddest and most tragic ending in history of film making. Combined with Klaus Doldinger´s haunting music it still makes it my all time number one movie
sad? Nazi soldiers seeing their cruel toy to be destroyed?
you should also watch "Die Brücke"
I heard the actors were asked if they want their character to survive or to die at the end, except Jürgen Prochnow (captain) and Herbert Grönemeyer (war reporter). The captain had to die, the reporter had to live, to tell the story.
Exhilarating scene, the U boat refusing to die rising up and racing across the sea. But the war is lost sadly for her.
This film stuck with me throughout my life, the enclosed anxiety and suspension was excellent.
I had been studying and decided to catch the midnight matinee at the student union. It was snowing on top of already three feet of snow. I had absolutely NO idea what this funny sounding movie was about but went anyway. Wow! German with English subtitles and was done so fabulously well that I never even noticed i was reading the dialogue. Just a great movie. This was November of 1981when it had just been released.
There is literally NO version with good subtitles.
@@bobbwc7011 Says you.
@@randmayfield5695 I speak both languages. There is no version with good subtitles.
@@bobbwc7011 Okay Bob. If you insist. I loved the movie and would have probably loved it and understood it just as well with no subtitles at all.
I watched das Boot for the first time some days ago and that ending haunts me. A perfect ending for a masterpiece. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. ❤️🩹
Seeing the U-96 sink in the end always breaks my heart.
I normally roll my eyes when people give out acting superlatives. But with all honesty, i can say the acting in this film is out of this world especially from the Captain, the Chief & Johan.
As an English child, I think older primary school age, seeing this film and this sequence. It sort of broke my brain (in a good way) a bit in being a key learning moment for my worldview. My father informed me it was the RAF attacking, and in my young mind, the world til that point was split between 'good guys' and 'bad guys'. This ending taught me it wasn't that simple, and while of course the Nazis were villainous and condemned to be evil in history, this story about regular combatants in the war has stuck with me since.
This movie is absolutely amazing.
Great, great movie, and the best music.
The ending made me very emotional when I have seen it for the first time, and it still does
Das Boot was a tv series then. I watched every episode and the details are stunning, it's exactly like a real U boat inside. The set was a real mockup of a U boat which could move violently.
Very chilling and interesting story. I was shocked watching the final episode. Everything they experienced was to no avail and for nothing, like war in reality is as well.
I had only seen clips and didn't realize it was a TV series. They did and extraordinary job, even compared to big screen modern films.
The set was not only a real mockup of the original boat, it still is. I visited it twice. You can walk through it at the bavaria film studios in Munich. All metal, dark, narrow - a true nightmare if you imagine life inside such a thing and everyone around out to kill you.
One of the greatest movies ever. The entire cast was incredible!
My dad was 3rd watch officer on U-969. They made it into the Med, and the boat was sunk at Toulon. Happily, no one was killed.
Imagine after going through all that ordeal, finally making it home and thinking you've made it only to get bombed...talk about PTSD
Si vrai, après débrouille toi.
yeah poor german soldiers
Starting a world war and getting traumatised afterwoods
Who wouldve seen that coming
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227 Dude if you cant appreciate a movie go watch my little pony and suck some israeli dick since you seem to wanting that.
@@saucysultanandhisangryraco1227this is such a stupid way of thinking. Only because germany started the war, EVERY german soldier is guilty and should not be seen as a human being.
Just accept that there were decent human beings on both sides and that they all endured one hell of a war and deserve respect for that.
@@nickste142 so decent human beeings invade other countries?
With military force?
Raid and sack other cities? Killing civilians?
putting people into "polish showers" and making soap out of them afterwards?
that is what human beeings do? what they deserve respect for?
But i do see your point there - the buzz in it started to fade away as soon as the other attacked countries started to fight back
What a horrible situation for the Invaders this must have been for germans.
and how unfair that their enemies fired back with real guns
One of the best films ever made across all genres
True!
My brother and I watched this in a theater when it first came out, German with subtitles. The music does a fantastic job of meshing with the action. The music as they are heading back, straining to get home, is totally compelling.
As a child I visited the Bavaria Filmstudios which produced the movie. I was to young to watch the movie back then, and had never heard of it, but they still had the complete internal replica of the U-boot. At least to me as a child, it was like visiting a real submarine. And a surprising amount of it is real metal, not just painted plywood.
I saw it when it came out as well. A riveting masterpiece.
At 4:26, as the wounded man is being carried up, one of the sailors says to him "The sun is shining." They had that sentence as Sophie Scholl's last words in "Sophie Scholl: Die Letzen Tage."
Sophie Scholl. Remembered for ever.
except sophie scholl was fighting and opposing nazi terror regime like a true hero and those soldiers...well.
Were fighting *for* the nazi terror regime like the...whatever you want to call it, what they were
My cousin's grandfather from Dublin was master of the merchantman Silvercedar on the Atlantic Convoys when she was sunk by U553 in 1941. He was lost, with 18 crew, 2 gunners and a passenger. U553 disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic in 1943 and is believed to have sunk with all hands following a technical problem. My uncle was born 8 months after Silvercedar was lost, so he never got to meet his father. There are no winners.
I can watch this movie again and again all day without getting bored
Watched this as kid. Was blown away by the awesomeness. Epic. Loved it.
小学生のころテレビで見たんだけどラストが悲惨すぎて戦争からは何も生まないし すべてを失うんだと悟った記憶
戦争の記憶を持つ人がだんだんいなくなってしまった現在 この映画を再放送してほしい
そうですね。僕が１２歳で昭和61年の見たとき、後で何週間にわたって気が重かったことを今よく覚えます。戦争が無駄なことをすっかり分かり始めました。
I dont understand one sign of your letter, but I am sure you love this movie. If you are Japanese or not, I dont know, but you must know that is probably the best european war movie ever. And about our exallies from ww2. Bye!
The cinematogrophy trick with the admiral coming into scene and the camera following him to lure the viewer into thinking we’re about to see an exchange between the admiral and cpt heinrich. You think your about to see somes sort of summary of the movie just to to have the fanfare interupted by the air/raid-klaxon is so fucking great. I love this movie.
This ending is what made me appreciate how much this is an anti-war film. You feel happy when the men overcome their predicament and arrive in the harbor, but war is not happy ending and good feelings. No matter if something “good” happens, war always results in death and destruction, regardless of how good you feel
Quel film ! Lorsque les moteurs se remettent en fonctionnement, la joie des hommes et la musique... J'en ai des frissons
,,Komm Zurück"
I remember watching the tv version in the late 80s or early 90s as a kid and being hooked by it. I remember feeling so sad that having been through all that they did that it ended like that for them. Having subsequently been to the film studio in Munich where it was made and walked through the full size submarine set I’ve no idea how those lads got through endless weeks at sea stuck in one of those.
Lots of alcohol
Awesome anecdote, @kartdriver2009! I might have guided you through the submarine model (and rest of the BavariaFilm premises) as I worked as tour guide there for almost a decade :) When did you visit? Cheers
@@petecamsky9293 I was there in August 2009
@@calebh7902 There's no drinking on a German submarine. And there definitely was no drinking on it during the war, unless the Captain explicitly allowed it. However, traditionally there is always one box of beer on a submarine - for when they return to port. That tradition still exists today.
@@AJT296 August '09! Highly possible :) I started working there in 2008
Actually, the U-96 was sunk in the very end of the war at 45, after having been retired from front line service for more than two years. And the captain of U-96, fregattenkapitan Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock survived the war and was consulting the filmmaking, died a few years after the film was released.
But, great film still. One of the best, if not the best. Despite of inaccuracies.
Both the entire film and the final scene are perfect... they reflect how brutal and hellish war is. The scene when the captain sees the submarine sink and dies is immortal.
This is one of the two best WW2 naval films that have been made, the other being The Cruel Sea.
Even as someone who is British, the end scene makes me extremely sad: these men were heroes despite the evil of the regime they fought for. They just did their duty and they deserved a better fate.
RIP Wolfgang Petersen
forget Rose and the Titanic ending. this one here is real Drama!
One of the best war movies of all time
Some facts:
The captain was actually Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. He served as an ensign on the "Karlsruhe", later trained officers for the Reichsmarine. He then took over an old U5 before being promoted to Lieutenant First Grade (Kapitänleutnant zur See) and finally got the command of U96, on which the movie plays, later U305 (he actually survived the harbor attack ...) and after the war of the "Otto Hahn", the first and only German freighter that had an atomic reactor as main energy source.
The Ensign who was present on U96 (which ran on ground not as spectacular as shown to over 280 meter ever, but actually did two times at a depth of 50 and 70 meter) was Buchheim, the author of "Das Boot" which was the novel behind this movie. Willenbrock and Buchheim were good friends and the captain was actually a mentor of Buchheim and proof read his novel after it was finished. But their friendship ended in 1986, when Willenbrock spoke very positive about the German submariners without any critics on the political background of the Nazi war they participated in. Buchheim was disgusted by that and told that to his former idol. Only weeks after, Willenbrock, "the old man", finally died, after he had actually received the German Federal Cross of Merit a decade earlier, the highest civil medal you can ever achieve in our country. Buchheim died in 2007. Their friendship was destroyed by the fact that Buchheim distanced himself from everything the Wehrmacht had made him do while Willenbrock, albeit never a convinced Nazi, stayed fond of the Wehrmacht and defended their actions, especially the submarine force. After everything we learned from Buchheim, I gotta come to the conclusion, that he was the one who was right.
when I first saw this ending when I younger It made me sick to my stomach and made me realize how good movies could be. Sure a lot of movies can illicit a feeling of, emotional sadness or joy but this was the first one to make me feel pure disillusionment and disgust and that's because of just how well it was executed. Just pure random tragedy of them docking just as an air raid happens after the crew survived hell against the odds.
Before I watched this film, I could never have imagined to ever hate the allies. Being British, I naturally lean toward the allies in war films. But this film got you so invested in the characters, you lived and breathed their ups and downs. You were elated when they made it home. Then the allies attack by air and most of them die and the boat sinks, after having endured and survived so much. For that moment you despise the allies.
That is good movie making.
Haven't watched the movie....does it show this u-boat sinking merchant shipping and leaving thousands of men to die in the water...or surfacing and shooting the survivors in cold blood? Because that's what really happened. No sympathy for them.
@@arthapeterson5239 Since you didn't watch the movie, they also showed how they sank a ship with a "Fangschuss" (a final torpedo to make the ship sink), assuming that the allies would have rescued the people on board by then. As they realized there were actually people on board, they were crying, as they couldn't rescue them.
Just one little advise to you: don't make comments about a movie you haven't watched.
Wars are cruel and no nation has been a saint in history.
In a way, in particular with this ending, it is a anti war movie.
@@ralfwk There's movie history, then there's real history.
I could not have said it any better...I cried as you cannot help but feel the agony and helplessness they endured...We're Going Home !!! only to die...
@@arthapeterson5239 Indeed, there are without doubt many incidents were Germans committed unspeakable atrocities, but also many incidents where Germans have shown resistance and helped victims of the 3rd Reich. In that context a lot of the resistance came actually from within the German army (e.g. Stauffenberg, among others). But in a fascist autocratic regime resistance is difficult as can be sadly witnessed today in Russia. If Trump wins the next election, the US might head into that direction too.
The point is that you made a fool out of yourself by making a comment about a movie you have not even seen and could not possibly get the message behind it just from short clips on youtube.
Saddest part of this true to life film is the u boat casuality rate. They really were iron coffins.
Rest in peace all you lost souls still on patrol
Gänsehaut pur.
Ein wirklich authentischer Film.
As the old saying goes “You get hit really hard when you’re at your safest.”
without a doubt this is the best submarine film of all time. nothing else comes close to this for authenticity, and the superb acting. jurgen prochnows finest hour. oscars all round for this masterpiece.
Saw this movie in theatre when it came out. It felt so claustrophobic. I think I never took a deapest breath of fresh air after when we got outside.
love the ending.. they survive being hunted by the RN only to die from an air raid by the RAF.. and they did not even complete their welcome home ceremony..
RAF or the US ARMY AIR CORPS?...............fuck Nazi maggots!.....B24 Liberators did the magic,............correct me if I am wrong,........
England wins on all fronts
4:42 when you are so experienced and your intuition is so far advanced, that you KNOW something is going down and it will come from the sky.
I wondered about this as well.
But maybe he simply felt naked and unprotected after so much time below surface.
I love that they played "It's a long way to Tipperary" while the allies played "Lili Marlene".
..and I will never forget that music.