All other boats mentioned are given anonymous names like UF and UX this was a deliberate choice by the author to protect certain details.
Adaptational Name Change: In the book, the eponymous U-boat was called UA, which was a foreign U-boat the Germans had built for the Turkish Navy but seized for use in the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of the war. Actually That's My Assistant: The captain of the supply ship Weser awkwardly assumes the young, clean shaved and uniformed 1WO is the Captain among a bunch of jaded and bearded sea-wolves. That's pretty much it: all the weeks-long stretches of boredom interspersed by hours-long stretches of terror that made up real German naval patrols. They initially struggle to stay alert while nothing happens for endless stretches of time in the middle of the Atlantic, and later on struggle to survive extremely dangerous encounters with Allied navy ships. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.Īcross the multiple versions of the film that exist, the plot quite simply encompasses one naval patrol aboard the U-96 along with its crew. #Dasboot cheers movie
The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic atmosphere in a World War II era sub. It is directed by Wolfgang Petersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Jürgen Prochnow as The Captain (commonly called Kaleun, short for Kapitänleutnant, or der Alte / the Old Man), with a soundtrack by Klaus Doldinger.
Das Boot ( "The Boat" in German) is a 1981 West German war film ( based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perils-ridden patrol of a World War II German submarine, the U-96, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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