Das Boot
lang (, The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film is set during World War II and follows the and her crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country.
Plot
Lieutenant Werner, a war correspondent on the in October 1941, is driven by his captain and chief engineer to a French bordello, where he meets some of the crew. Thomsen, another captain, gives a drunken speech to celebrate his ''Ritterkreuz'' award and mocks Adolf Hitler.
Cast
- Bernd Tauber
- Claude-Oliver Rudolph
- Erwin Leder
- Günter Lamprecht
- Heinz Hoenig
- Herbert Grönemeyer
- Hubertus Bengsch
- Jan Fedder
- Joachim Bernhard
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Klaus Wennemann
- Konrad Becker
- Martin May
- Martin Semmelrogge
- Oliver Stritzel
- Otto Sander
- Ralf Richter
- Rita Cadillac
- Sky du Mont
- Uwe Ochsenknecht