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Das Boot - The Director's Cut [DVD] [Keep Case]

  • R
  • DVD
  • 1 disc
  • Region 1 USA/CA (info)
  • DAS BOOTwas filmed in German. Different versions of the film are either dubbed in English or use English subtitles. At the time of its release, the film was the highest grossing film in German cinema. The re-edited, remastered director's edition of DAS BOOT was culled from the original six-hour rough cut by director Wolfgang Petersen himself. DAS BOOT also aired as a television mini-series featuring around 20 minutes of additional footage. Director Wolfgang Petersen made the actors go through weeks of training to ensure that they could maneuver authentically in the tight quarters of the U-boat set. He also forbade them to be out in the sun, so that their pallor matched that of a real submarine crew. The film's many long tracking shots in the narrow confines of the submarine set forced director of photography Jost Vacano to develop his own camera technique to obtain the intricate shots. Petersen commented that the captain of the U-boat in DAS BOOT, at around 30 years old, would have been considered one of the German fleet's oldest captains. Of the 40,000 crewmen sent out on German U-boats during World War II, some 30,000 never returned.
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  • Additional Info
    Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 22219

  • Credits
    Jrgen Prochnow, Juergen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer
  • Critic Reviews
    "...A great movie just got greater, thanks to this thorough restoration....The movie is letterboxed on tape for the first time ever and has a magnificent new stereo soundtrack..." -- 4 out of 4 stars
    USA Today

    "...Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time....The new DAS BOOT feels rawer, gloomier, more pungently authentic than it did before..."
    Entertainment Weekly

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