Das Boot - Destroyer Encounter (1/2)
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- U-96 encounters a Destroyer in the North Atlantic in late 1941.
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I don’t think such a movie could ever be duplicated. A masterpiece of cinematography.
I do not think sane writers or directors dare to duplicate it.
they have to come up with something new.
@@MajSolo They wouldn't dare do it in a real U-boat but in a studio 😂 Just kidding!
The captain would be gay
I served on the Oklahoma City (SSN 723) in the early 90s, we used to watch this movie once a month on a Friday night underway while on a Med run. Great movie never get tired of it..
My Father was torpedoed twice in one day off the coast of Iceland - he got tired of watching this very quickly
once a month? How long does it take to watch the movie???
My father who served on diesel boats in the USN 1946-49 said this film is the only one that shows what life was like on a sub. Dirty, smelly, cramped, oily, and noisy.
And I see a documentary how the serie/ movie was made. Very interesting.
My father served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a torpedo man on SS 213 Greenling and SS 218 Albacore. He passed away before this movie was made but I’m sure he would have enjoyed it. He rarely spoke of his wartime experiences, only about the friendships and good times. Only once did I get him to open up about attacking a Japanese merchant ship and subsequent depth charging from an escort. It was clear he tried not to think of the killing, to him they were just ships to sink. I think that’s how a lot of them felt. Kept you from loosing your humanity.
Yeah but an engineer I know visited in Europe a u-boat restored to fighting trim and told me it was the most beautifully built machine he’d ever encountered.
@@johannmckraken9399 As Sven Hazel said: "War is a disease!"
Canada updated their fleet and bought Britain’s diesel subs
Outstanding movie. Saw it when it was released theatrically. You can feel the claustrophobia building among the soldiers in their confined surroundings.
And RIP to the director, Mr. Wolfgang Peterson: he passed away at age 81 a few days ago
He also directed Air Force One, he loved a movie about an enclosed space
@@loadeddice4696 and Troy
There Not soldiers
He kicks the guy in the head when climbing the U-boat ladder to the surface 😅 well worth the rewatch !!
@@leroyhovatter7051Submariners
My dad and his two brothers were all submariners during the war,and he said this was the closest thing he had ever seen to actually being depth charged
Best movie ever that captures the spirit and soul of men in war. I can remember the 1st time I watched this 40 years ago. Never wanted so much for them German lads to get home safe. And I am British
Good point, Dave.
You forget that they're the enemy.
No wonder Britain needed help. They killed a lot of british sailors, you twit.
The war as seen thru' enemy eyes they advertised. They didn't lie. Made me feel like I was there😧!
The best u-boat movie ever... A masterpiece.
Very impressive movie and one of the best war movies of all time imo.
A dirty place with little room and no place to be alone ! !
The Hunt for Red October was better.
@@thisismagacountry1318 in your dreams
This film is the Best Submarine movie ever..!
These Seamen had genuine balls of steel! God I can't imagine the terror aboard a U Boat pursued by one or more Destroyers! Especially in the last year or so of the War!
I know. It doesn’t bear worth thinking about!
What about the terror they inflicted on merchant seamen,?
@@michellearmstrong7903 They were like Allied service people ordinary men and women caught up in circumstances beyond their control and doing their duty.The American submarine force had the highest losses of 15% on the allied side German U boat crews suffered 75% losses .
Lives thrown away
@@rickyribs8032 they are still bastards
It's one of the most memorable moments of the film for me, and I suppose one of the reasons is the captain deciding to turn the tables and attack the destroyer.
When the destroyer suddenly appears from behind that wave; that is one of the highlights of the movie. Imagine yourself in the captain's shoes, seeing this boat about to crush that periscope.
I saw this movie on the big screen. When I saw that destroyer pop-out, I nearly had a brown shorts alert.
@@guinness77100 That must have been a fantastic experience. The sounds of the explosions with theater speakers....me want this.
its like spotting out of a sherman and a Tiger 88gun walks out of a house :-)
What was wrong with the guy on hydrophones when that happened? They should have heard the destroyer approaching. And I'm surprised after periscope up the protocol wouldn't be for an immediate 360 degree pan to orient yourself and look for danger.
@@GaryCameron Hydrophone can only hear several degrees, perhaps he lost it when destroyer turned sharp or boat goes up or down too. That´s really possible.
Fun Fact: they got an actual U-boat captain from the Second World War to be a technical consultant in the making of the sets, lighting, and... well... everything that really makes this film tick, it's very accurate, and as a result... very telling for how hard it was for the poor souls who had to fight this terrible war, particularly THIS the OH SO UNDERRATED Battle Of The Atlantic.
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock was the name of the captain. He and the author of the novel Das Boot (Lothar Günther Buchheim) had sailed together in WW2.
Actually there is a big unaccuracy in the movie: they launch a torpedo to a 6 hours burning tanker when they have the deck gun, but other than that it's perfect
@UA-cam Veterinarian if I'm not mistaken, three out of four sailors who served on German submarines never returned home.
Its quite hard to find a U-boat captain who survived.
@@TrueNameless well, maybe now... but back in the 80s, it wouldn't have been that bad.
Great film. I knew a U-boat captain who had a restaurant in Manchester England in the late 70s. An ordinary chap who's objective in 1945 was to kill his clientele. He always joked that he opened a restaurant because wasn't very successful as a u boat captain...
If he were a German U-boat captain who survived the war, that would have been a mark of great success right there.
...GOOD POINT, MUTTMAN325...(!)
I met an old U-Boot Submariner in Cuba many years ago, he was a funny guy. He said "Now, we drink beer together!" He also pulled my leg about Scapa Flow 😂
This was one of the best war films I’ve ever seen.
I like to think that it is an anti-war film....
It is.
Stalingrad (1993)
@@РусланОлийнык yes, also an excellent film.
The Longest Day (1962)
Saving Private Ryan
Midway (2019)
From the novel Sharks and Little Fish, by Wolfgang Ott, he stated that as the destroyer passed over the U- boat crew could here the depth charges hit the water, he stated that the crew would start to count, a depth charge sinks at 13 feet per second. "...It was like your head was on the block and you could hear the ax whistling down..."
Once the Canadians had the Hedge Hog on the Corvettes everything changed. Unlike depth charges which explode at a preset depth, the motor bombs only exploded if they actually hit the U-boat. If they missed, because the boat was twisting and changing depth, the RCN retained SONAR contact... Very bad for the boat.
Stupid, bloody UA-cam spell checker... MORTER BOMBS... not motor bombs...
"They must of seen our periscope" captain says, not knowing the British had radar/sonar. Captain makes these references thru the whole movie. Brilliant German film.
Err, you do know that the pinging sound in the movie is ASDIC/SONAR so the captain probably did know? RADAR uses radiowaves ASDIC /SONAR sound waves. They are very different. The political Nazi does mention centimetric radar after the attack by the plane later but apparently no one in the Kreigsmarine had bothered to tell the captain about centimetric RADAR. Another error in the movie and the original book.
They knew that the ASDIC system existed
The Captain knew they had sonar (his 1st Watch Officer refers to the ping) but the Germans didn’t know the Allies had surface radar until later on in the war (this is set in 1941). That’s why the Captain thinks it’s strange the British could’ve spotted the periscope (“hard to believe in this weather”).
If you notice the destroyer is heading right towards them, referencing the forward facing radar. This movie is full of brilliantly subtle and accurate historical references.
You’ll notice how the director has the lights come back on right after he says it. Literally meaning about how the Captain was “in the dark” not knowing about the radar.
@@nocalsteve Good point. Or Director wanted to tell us through Kaleun's (Captain) verbalized thoughts that he was understanding the suicidal Nature of their mission.😢
I am so stressed just watching this. I can’t imagine being a submariner in WWII, especially a German U boat crew. They had a 75% casualty rate, which is insane!!!
yep and the thing about submarines is - with very few exceptions, when a boat went down it went down with all hands.
....spare a thought for all the merchant shipping which they sank with most of the sailors dying of exposure and drowning due to a lack of any rescue options ! 72,000 dead and 3,659 ships sunk on the Allied side alone.....
@@revol148 on the bright side in the Pacific you could sink where the water was warmer and you wouldn't die so quick - until the sharks found you...
@@revol148 the axis had little reason to have merchant ships. Maybe rubber trade at the start of the war but apart from the I feel as of the allies had a massive amount of merchant ships coming from the American continent to the uk
@@anonydun82fgoog35 as a man who's country is located in the pacific, I agree.
I recently saw a new version of Das Boot on television but this OLDER version of the eighties is the best one ever !
Agreed, I want to see uboats and not some French and German girl have sex
@@leonxrdd The new series is pretty good. Not a masterpiece like the original film but it deals with many people's perspective.
"and not some French and German girl have sex" You're walking on thin ice here. You sound a bit like one of those old bigots who are offended over anything remotely "modern day".
"I want to see uboats" You can't make a modern day tv series just from a submarine. It would never work. Even the original Das Boot miniseries back in the 80's was never a smash hit in the ratings. Its realism of the boredom of life on WWII submarine turned away many viewers.
So I'm not sure if you have the whole picture here.
@@leonxrdd Two Girls, One Cup will change your mind about that.
@@jamesshunt5123Got quite the crazed fanatic 'ere, 'ent we, lads?
I like the "you couldn't make X in the modern day" too. Yeah, about all them things seeking a "modern audience"... Did you just wake up from a 12 year coma?
The thing about this movie is 10-15 minutes in you forget that this is a Nazi U-Boat, and it becomes a bunch of men in an impossible terrifying situation.
@Jan-Ola Ellingsen
Ya Know everyone keeps saying that...we hate war. Yet I can't find a 10 year period where one group of people is (with great enthusiasm) killing, enslaving another group of people. Often (to paraphrase Victor Davis Hanson) stupid reasons. It gives no great to say either 1. We (Humans) are not as bright as we think we are 2. We really do like war. Not sure which it is.
@Jan-Ola Ellingsen
I would also point out, there are people out there that the Only thing they understand is I have a big stick, and if you don't play nice I'll hit you with it....HARD. Its sad but true.
Kriegsmarine weren't Nazis just Navy
A "nazi" u-boat and an imperialist destroyer in support of bolsheviks. And in the end winners write history.
Not nazi U-boat, German U-boat. Nazis were a political party, German is a nationality. I doubt the submarine was a member of the political party, instead it was in service of the country. Nobody says "Republican submarine" or "Labour party submarine" when talking of American and British submarines do they?
you can still visit the Set of the Submarine with all its Engines and blankets etc that you can see here.
it is a Part of the "Bavaria Film Tour" from the Produktion Studios Bavaria Film in Munich
There's also U-995, a type VII/C (the same type as in the movie and the book). It's the only real type VII surviving and can be visited in Laboe/Kiel, Germany.
I remember the times when all my friends at school had been watching this movie in my childhood. It was such a tensed and facinating thing! Everybody was talking of it (long version!).
And now already the same amount of years have passed like then since the end of the war. I can understand nowadays how close these war rememberings still were for those old survivors back then.
After all that they get back to
Port only to be bomb to sht
During an air raid
One of my top 5 favorite movies. This one is better than the book. It should have won the Acadamy Award for Best Picture, Best Leading Man, Best Supporting Actors, Best Special Effects. Even though they were on the side of the Axis Powers, you had to have sympathy for these men who were given a tough job to do. The ending is especially tragic.
I remember watching this in my young days. The first time I saw that destroyer suddenly appear from behind the wave I gasped loudly and yelped "holy shit"!
The highest attrition rate of all German military branches. Life onboard an U-boat had a 75% casualty rate, the highest of all German forces during the war.
What I remember seeing this for the first time in a theater in the eighties -was they had a pretty good sound system cranked-up you could just about feel those depth charges! Definitely the gold standard in submarine movies
Is it just me or the theater sound system nowadays is weak af?
The greatest film ever made in my humble opinion.
agree
Better than anything in the genre, including all Vietnam-related hollywood crap.
it has problems, but the interior scenes are pure art
@@cheeseandonions9558 are you kidding me little boy? Or i guess you think grey hound is better?... The best one ever is this Film... The really masterpiece.
@@neues3691 alle ganzer Film ist super!!!
There are very few things more frightening to a sailor than being inside a can in the ocean taking depth charges any of which could sink your boat.
Yep - even in peacetime, it may be dangerous to operate in a submarine! More than one sub have sunk after 1945 due to accidents! For example the argentine sub ARA San Juan: The crew had no chance to survive - even if they were not at war......
My uncle served on US subs during WWII.
He said getting depth charged was the scariest thing you can imagine.
All you can do is wait and pray the next one does not get you.
@@khaen.ellingsen790 it feels like it’s almost a yearly occurrence that you hear about a sub being lost somewhere
My father was a submariner in the Royal Navy, an engine room operator, throughout thecwhole of ww2. They literally used to have to sh1t in the same room they ate their meals. From his description of their conditions this is the closest to a true portrayal of their lives. It is such a regrets that he passed away before this movie came out.
Whoever made this movie isn’t getting the credit they deserve, it’s epic
Wolfgang Petersen!
Also not forget the Camera Guy (Jost Vacano) who developed a special System, to make the nice running shoots from the back to the Front of the Boat
you should see the 5 hour version it will blow you away i have it awsome !
@@christinesmith7625
Yes you are total right, you can see far more Details in the Series Version!
@Jonah Whale history !
@@iiiuuiii I just remember a lot more monotony but still worth the watch.
‘Destroyers’ were like ‘Tiger Tanks’, most were actually smaller, slower corvettes, like the unglamorous Hawker Hurricane they did the job.
Hey when your main mission is to roll up to a much slower boat and drop off some bombs, small, light and agile is good enough
@@Fizzydog77 well, yes and no. Corvettes typically had a max speed about the same as a surfaced submarine, so had a hard time catching them if the sub attacked surfaced at night. Which is why corvettes were adequate for protecting convoys but destroyers were far better at actually hunting submarines.
Imagine living like this for 2 months... and that's if you're lucky enough to live that long
Exactly!
imagin a uboat sailor surviving after many patrol. He would scared the shit when u shout trolling "Alarmmmmm!" at his old age
Wolf Dead the uncle of my dad, joined the U boot Waffe in 1940 and was able to survive a sinking of his boat twice (!!) and was both times rescued by a destroyer of the Kriegsmarine. After the war he never ever stepped into a bathtub again and had bad dreams nearly every night with waking up from someone screaming „ALARM“ in his dream.
@@leminhhai6008 he’d be like “FLUUUUTEEEEEEEN!!! ALLE MANN VORRAAAAUS LOS LOS LOOOOOS!!!”
2? Lol the Kriegsmarine were doing 6 month patrols at one point, since their sub pens were all on the other side of the Atlantic. Insane shit, the crazier part is they built refueling subs to stay out even LONGER.
Truly a classic in every sense of the word.
All of the members of my family survived Ww2. Except of one who, the favorite cousin of my grandmother - the son of the twin sister of her mother. He went down on board of a VIIc U-Boat in the North Atlantic. It was in January 1944 on day 10 of his first mission, 2 days before his 23 birthday. She told me this shortly before she died 93 years old - and how that picture of him drowning in the cold water now lying in a crushed steel coffin has haunted here her whole life.
May he Rest In Peace 😔
Its not a bad death. Once the hull ruptures the pressure and weight of the ocean hits and crushes you faster than the human reaction time so you never would have knew you died.
Or so it is thought. No one has survived to say and there is no camera footage or any kind of sensor information since they would also be destroyed
@@rickysmyth not fully correct for a boat to sink it need to take on water …. So the tin can fills up with cold ocean water no lights as all electricity will be short cut by the water so going down in a slowly filling tin can isn’t to nice of a death . And because the hill fills up with water there is no pressure difference so the boat doesn’t get squished ..
@@TeamCarcaine inside the sub is like a bubble of air. Water rushes in to fill the gap and you're instantly squashed. Water is heavier than air you see.
was it by any chance U-757?
another legend of a movie..looks and sounds real..bravo to the production/direction/acting...whaen this movie comes on people stop what they are doing..and watch...
Proof that you don’t need cgi to do epic movies! (Also, thanks Nolan! 😁)
If this isnt the most millennial thing that could be said I don't know what could be. We had plenty of proof before and after this movie was made, lol. Your generation is so dumb that even the tyrannical fascists have been empowered again.
@@mitch_the_-itch Millennial bad, old good. You are all the same. This was an amazing movie but CGI will always be easier cheaper and in some cases better.
@@kohlshu8979 Millennials are the dumbest most tyrannical generation in American History. When I was in first grade we made fun of the Govt taxing Air. Today first graders would put me into Prison for making a joke about the Govt taxing Air.
Young people think that old people are stupid. Old people know that young people are stupid.
@@mitch_the_-itch Smart people are a minority. Always were. Old people are just the majority of people who were equally stupid in their youths but now have the harsh lesson of life learned, whereas the majority of the young generation who are yet to learn this same lesson. At core they're the same. The majority I mean.
The smart ones listen to everybody and hence learn how to avoid mistakes in life. Take the internet for instance. Smart young people see it as a limitless library of free information. Dumb young people see it as a free-for-all circus of entertainment.
Most old people are a lot more ignorant and indoctrinated than they themselves are aware of.
Do you know where the word hippie comes from? In the 1960's the slightly older generation of beatniks lamented that what once was a relatively serious movement of artists and intellectuals who shunned the rather stiff norms of 50's and 60's America now had been reduced to a mere "fad movement of the masses" who adapted is as something "hip and fashionable". The beatniks therefore used the derogatory word "hippie" as somebody who merely adapted some parts of the beatnik lifestyle as "youthful, fashion statement" to distinguish themselves from them - especially since they were crudely bundled together with them by a lot of media.
The bottom line is that the majority of all people are ignorant/stupid and this is why all young people are seen as stupid by the previous generation - who only have learned from experience and hard life but certainly not by being smart.
For an excellent example of "learning hard lessons fast" see the effect of war on a young person's mind. Young people enter the war with the belief they're going to be "great heroes" or "die a noble death" or even "killing for a noble cause". After a nice dose of reality, who really pull the strings in war and how suckered they have been they suddenly wisen up. Smart, young people see through those grooming tactics by the government, military and big shots but are ridiculed by the young sheep as merely being "cowardly, weak or traitorous".
This is one of the lessons in Das Boot. Notice how the young crew changed fundamentally from their experience.
"Young people think that old people are stupid. Old people know that young people are stupid." Stupid people don't know how stupid and ignorant they are whether they're young or old. Reducing it all to a mere question of age is all the evidence you'll ever need.
I've come across far too many old people still living in the Cold War who can't name the members of their own local municipal government, find two countries in the world on a map but think they know sh*t.
Bavaria Filmstadt apparently still conducts studio tours. I don't know what's featured there anymore, but long ago when I was a US soldier stationed in the DDR during the cold war era I was fortunate to take the tour. It was just a couple of years after the film release and included a memorable walk through of part of these very Das Boot interiors and an outdoor look at some reduced scale exterior models.
Also in the tour at the time were sets and props from The Never Ending Story, Peter the Great, Cabaret, Moscow on the Hudson and more. Highly recommended that you look into this if it appeals to you!
@Stuart Ernst Ahrens Your attitude of hatred and resentment is presumptuous and unfortunate and I won't reply further. I've been aboard submarines sir, and incidentally my father was decorated for serving on a destroyer in WWII.
The Cruel Sea and Das Boot back to back should be essential viewing.
Einer der bester Szenen wenn nicht die beste Szene aus dem Film.
now i have to watch this movie completely again...
did this dozens of times already LOL
@Jonah Whale U mean that new one? with this espionage plot? darn I was serving in a sub (non-nuke) during the nineties and found this '81 movie pretty realistic. but this new one really sux. U dont even "feel" the dirt they had to live in during a mission
Jetzt wirds psychologisch meine Herren
You can say that again
Sie koennen das mal wiederholen ..
Took the words, right outta me mouth.
Sie ham recht
@@caolmgm Ham to the right? ;)))
As a German myself, I can pretty much tell that even the losers never cease to appeal us of how war feels like an active burden that has the will to crush all of us. And it is quite well imaginable that fighting with a submarine is one of the most stressful and perilous jobs in the entire world. Once you go deep, there may be no going back. It is practically a suicide mission. No side is the best, but bravery and will to fight for the lives are remembered.
Stuff Tom Hanks and Greyhound, this is how you make a movie about the Battle of the Atlantic!
watch the 4 hour version awsome !
Even watching the trailer of Greyhound I was like fuck this Hollywood crap
@@kyleJohn1997 I have watch it, I can confirm that the movie is better than Pearl harbor
@@хабибчемпионММА I've also seen Greyhound, and can confirm it is theatrical, but is a fun watch. There's a scene in it that might well have been the other side of this particular encounter, only with the opposite outcome. It's great to see the factors both sides were dealing with in the Battle of the Atlantic.
@@oceandark3044 someone should edit that movie with two different perspective. Greyhound side and greywolf side.. Greyhound movie with Das Boot..
Der Film hätte mehrere Oskars verdient
I feel sorry for those watching this movie, that don't understand German.
Too much lost in translation.
I don't speak a lick of German but I understand the language enough to the point that I can understand what certain words mean.
It had to be done in German to make it so authentic. We have the subtitles anyway. This was one of the best ww2 films ever made
@@glennpickard2239 Agreed.
If they bought the movie they would have sub titles available.
Yes so I’ve heard. I’ve been told that by a few German speaking people.
Best submarine film that i have ever seen.
These were brave men. They knew they were fighting a uphill battle but they served their duty for their country.
I love how there is like no noise inside that U boat.
The best u boat movie ever!!!
Because hydrophone also can heard human voice
Somebody farts your dead
Noise kills
Quickly became a classic & WW2 favorite.
Can you imagine how shit scared those young lads must of been on those U boats with a destroyer overhead dropping those depth charges?!!
5:17 still terrifying than most of horror movies.
Fun fact: the destroyer appears out of nowhere because the British had radar to spot U Boats on the surface but the germans didnt know about it, thats why they are so suprised about being spotted.
Was the destroyer already looking for u96 then? That makes sense. I always wondered how that destroyer happed right out of no where on them.
And had his depth charges ready too
What a fantastic movie. I could watch this over and over.
I have.... probably 50 or more times over 40 years...and the 6 hour miniseries version as well !!!
Best film I've seen in 60 years.
Lest we forget.
One of the very few war movies to show the suffering and human side from the German perspective.
Let them all suffer and be in hell.
@@ironseabeelost1140 oh wow, so much bullshit
@@Gulliolm Repeat, "You're not exactly working with any amount of intelligence."
@@ironseabeelost1140 lol, thats cute
To OP. Nonsense. There's been plenty of war movies portraying the German perspective, but you're just counting the "famous Hollywood films". There are German films such as Stalingrad, Der Untergang, Germany Pale Mother, Sophie Sholl, Before the Fall, Generation War, Europa Europa, The Last Bridge, Die Brucke (nominated for an Oscar) and others.
That's not mentioning the other European countries which often portray Germans in a more human light and therefore include their perspective. The Oscar nominated "Land of Mine" is a Danish film about German POW's forced to clear mines in Denmark.
As for a rather (in)famous Hollywood production of the war from a German perspective see Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron" which deals with the gruesome war on the Eastern Front from a German perspective.
Btw the 1962 film "The Longest Day" (nominated for best picture) deals with Operation Overlord but portrays *both sides* . The Germans are portrayed as regular people with their own huge issues to face during the war and plan accordingly to the information they're receiving. It's a stark contrast to Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan where the Germans aren't portrayed as people at all but yelling beasts who all are ardent nazis.
"The Longest Day" is portrayed as a chess game from both sides so it counts as a fair portrayal of the German side in the war.
There was the rather bland "Valkyrie" some years back about the plot to assassinate Hitler inside some members of the German command.
What you say is only true for those who only see the "latest Hollywood films". If you see a German film about the suffering in war see Stalingrad (1993).
When my family went on vacation in Chicago a few years ago, my husband and son went to the U505 at the Museum of Science and Industry. The only person in that particular tour group who could read, write, or speak German, he translated information for others along with U-Boat history. When he got out of the exhibit, he was offered a tour guide position on the spot. Only trouble was the 3 hour commute daily each way. Still, good times for all.
On a side note, I think they used the U505 as a mockup for the interior shots. I do know the exhibit was used for the movie U571, which illustrated the "cloak and dagger" side of the war trying to get the Enigma and related codes from the Germans.
Yeah U571 the American movie where the Americans captured the enigma machine, when in fact in reality it was the British that did.
This movie is so badass.
The tension is unbearable, even just as a viewer. Imagine what these guys must have felt like. So well filmed.
0:46 awesome improvisation !
more like a blooper but ok
@@chriseffpunkt4333 nah he did that on purpose
Probably happened all the time
kick to the head
@@ashman187 headshot)
There are a lot of great war films. But this is definitely the best. Saw it when it came out. Speechless
Finally got to tour German sub in science museum in Chicago. Really made an inpression small as heck
It’s very sad how after all they had been through the sub is destroyed in the docks during a senseless ceremony
Sad and ironic. 😥
One of the best war films of all time
i remember watching this when it was first shown as a series of 8 hrs total...utterly fantastic... the shortened down "film" was ok but missed out badly on the real feeling and intense portrayal that the series had
I've seen 'em all and this is by far the best! Great backstories, it holds you throughout the entire movie, just epic!
5:38 That face is truly priceless once you realize the kind of hell you're in!!! One of my favorite films.
My Uncle was a career RCN navy sonar man. In the navy before, through & after WW2. Served on destroyers. Torpedo & injured off the coast of Ireland. Ship survived. He was hospitalized surviving burns & back injuries. Once healthy returned to a new destroyer, HMCS Haida. As a sonar man on that ship he won a DSM for his role in that ship sinking a German U Boat. As a teenager, playing crib with him at the summer cottage, he & I talked about submarines as a most deadly enemy. I commented about being depth charged & dying & he spoke of being torpedo and dying. Little sympathy. War is grim. My years of military service 1967-96. Front half combat arms. My father WW2 RCAF m/u gunner in Lancaster 101 Sqn 32 missions March-September 1944. My other Uncle, WW2 Infantry x3 WW2 beaches… Dunkirk, Dieppe & Juno. My grandfather before them British Infantry. I enjoyed this film on many levels. Not the least of all was the understanding of the horrors of war experienced by all who fight as a consequence of… failed politics.
Und Grönemeyer dachte sich nur so:
"U-Boot, ich bin in Dir,
U-Boot, ich häng an Dir,
oooh tauch auf, U-Boot"
Da konnte man zum Grönemeyer noch aufschauen. Heute... :(
I don’t speak German, but whenever I watch this movie, I have to watch it in spoken German with English subtitles because the German language makes it a lot more enjoyable to watch. 👍 🇩🇪
0:13 If your mechanic doesn't do that, find another mechanic.
Many times I have used such a technique to diagnose a problem. Along with the MKI Human eyeball, the MKI Human ear-hole takes some beating...
When your life depends on the diesel engines working, you take good care of them.
Later in the film, Johann shouts at the engines "JUST KEEP RUNNING AND GET US HOME! THAT'S AN ORDER!"
One of my all time favourite movies. Looking forward to one day seeing the rare tv mini series of this, suppose that would be like an ultra long director’s cut version. Cool.
I’ve gotten the full mini series cut. Just adds a few scenes to add depth to the situation. Also an added scene that I wish made the director cut. It’s worth the investment but make sure your dvd/blu Ray can support multi country since you’ll be getting it from a euro source.
@@CngDelta757 Nice one bud, no worries on that, I live in Birmingham U.K.
Tell them that you are tired and depressed in your workplace
2:23 just the sound of that horn alone, while the crewmen are patiently waiting to make their move.. scary
0:45 the guy passig by gets a huge headkick xD
this comment is so old you can't even click the number yet
@@richtigerfeger Was er sich wohl denkt wenn 8 Jahre lang niemand auf seinen Kommentar antwortet und dann innerhalb von 2 Tagen zwei Antworten kommen? ;)
Ich glaub er wäre richtig verwirrt
@@richtigerfeger I was so confused why I couldn’t click it lmaooo
Because it's at 0:46
bester deutscher film ever
Hast du schonmal die Penny Doku gesehen?
@@kollegahsterin Er sagte bester Film! Wir wissen alle das die penny markt Donku die beste Doku ist
@@Johnny-ue6hg Doku in Filmlänge. Also kann man es auch Film nennen. Dass er es nie in die Kinos geschafft hat, sagt eher was über die Kinos aus als über die Qualität der Penny Doku.
@@kollegahsterin Das Boot ist der beste Kriegsfilm und penny markt ist der beste Film der heutigen Zeit
Ever hoffentlich nicht, aber bisher wahrscheinlich schon.
I saw this film when it first was released. It opened with some statistical info about the huge number of Nazi submariners who had been killed at sea. The audience applauded.
This film is so good you can smell the inside of the boat!
I'm not exaggerating to say I must have watched this movie over 50 times, and a lot of them were the 5 hour mini series edition. An incredible production. (PS. NOT the utterly awful modern TV version !!!)
Me two I am happy that I aren’t the only one
There is 5 hour version?
@@borisborkovic8894 It was produced as a TV miniseries in the 1980s. Add another two hours onto the "directors/ultimate/final/last ever cut" and you get the idea. It's available on torrents.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 ok
Still one of the best movies ever. Why did someone feel the need to remake it?
ALLLLARRRRRRRRRRRRRM!
Excellent submariner movie!
I originally watched it in 1981...
Superb movie. The incredible guts it took for men to get in a steel can, no vision, under the water, and at war.... in WW2. I don’t care which side you were on. The bravery of a man to do this. Incredible
Still surprised they made it out alive at periscope depth while getting depth charged
Many uboat men weren’t so lucky
It's a movie. She wouldn't survive in real life
Its a movie, do not believe it. Watch The Cruel Sea. Centrimetric radar could detect a periscope. Its also very sporting of the Flower class corvette, probably not a destroyer, that they turned their ASDIC set off and they did not use their SQUID mortars either.
@@sapphiresomeday The film takes place from 10/41 to 12/41. Centimetric radar is just being introduced and is being added to ships as the come in for maintenance though it maybe how they were found in the first place. SQUID is still 2 years in the future. The destroyer was attempting to ram the sub with the depth charge attack being secondary and probably at the wrong depth. At that speed ASDIC would be masked by the destroyers own screws.
@@sapphiresomeday Entirely possible the equipment was dysfunctional or broke for some other reason. Technology of the time wasn't nearly as reliable as that of today.
EDIT: @David Wright has an even better answer.
The best Film ever made.
Definitely the best WW2 film×
Being depth charged is the most frightening experience of WW2 in my opinion
An hours-long artillery barrage is essentially the same thing
great movie, quite slow paced but it really captures the monotany of life at sea
The look of terror on the leutenant's face when the depth charges hit!
My God is this movie magnificent ..
What damage does the boat take in the bombing in the Strait of Gibraltar? Could the bombing damage prevent some subsystem from working for blowing tanks?
@@b43xoit I wish I knew but evidently the rudder is stuck DOWN so they cannot level out or come up. As for the blowing tanks, I cannot say why they cannot do this ..
@@roba1899 Yeah, I think this is a weakness in the story.
I can't even conceive how claustrophobic it must feel inside one of these tin cans.
Christ, just how many china does the crew have to smash when calling for an emergency dive.
Awesome quality and one of the best anti war movies ever made.
Depth Charges were not designed to blow a sub up, the shock waves would shake the sub apart. you didn't want to lean up agaisnt the hull in an attack, men had their backs broken that way. it must have been terrrible at times, if they were under attack for a long time the air started getting bad and then all the noise and the shock waves hitting the sub.
Plus the heads would back up, not to mention the smell of fear sweat. Plus when a charge went off particularly close ppl would probably shit themselves. All these odors would combine with the normal sub stink and it must of been a heady bouquet down there at times...
In case people dont remember the original ` cut` is over eight hours , long periods of dull boring routine but it truly makes the film
The miniseries was 6 one hour episodes.
once my dad and some friends he worked with were sitting around talking about a submarine that just was launched and it was on tv. they were all american germans. dad said wouldn't it be interesting to go out on a sub. one said no way. "there are enough dead germans in submarines on the bottom of the ocean already, they sure don't need another one." :)
Saw this movie, the original 'Das Boot' with subtitles, when it first came out and it was great. I don't understand German, but after a while I stopped reading the subtitles and just understood them. The later English dubbed movie 'The Boat' was a mess, it just lost the feeling of the original. It was one service of the war that I would never have liked to serve in.
In later stages of the war the allies invented a radar tat could pick up U-boat periscopes popping out of the water. The U-boat captains were unaware of this.
yes indeed, in the book they keep talking about how this destroyer saw their periscope and I think they later on the way to gibraltar get attacked by a few planes at night too. The Kaleun says he heared rumours that the allies have a technology which lets them see at night and spot submarines with ease.
It was 10 centermeter radar that could pick up a scope if sea not too ruff
Plus "Huff duff" whereby they could pinpoint a sub` s position based on its radio transmissions
@@glennpickard2239 yes. And many American lives saved as result. The u boat danger over. Hedghog debt charges done rest.
It doesn't matter if they are german or English. Both sides were in the same position, dirty, smelly,hungy,trapped in a submarine ,being scared all the time!
I was taught to tattoo professionally by a man who looks exactly like the man in the beige sweater with the blonde hair lol.
That guy is actually a famous German musician, Herbert Grönemeyer.
This movie truly makes you feel like you are on the sub it’s self, doing the intense battles!
Clássico!
O melhor filme sobre a guerra no mar já feito.
Com certeza
This movie is so intense and scary yet terribly tragic of an ending. No way you’ll ever see a movie this amazing again with this much intensity and fear and nail biting and nervous sweats and so much crazy emotion of these guy in a claustrophobic U-boat on a mission trying to survive.
'You don't know what warfare is, if u haven't fought the Germans.''
I would only get Johan to service my car.
A lot of the crews were not nazi..they were just navey men doing there job..all lot of captains hated the nazis.its well documented..