![]() The fact the crew of U-96 are presented as being utterly human and for this Brit hoping they make it home in one piece is a great achievementÄAS BOOT was nominated for several Oscars and it's not difficult to see why. Okay I didn't want them sinking British ships but I didn't want them to die either an opinion that shouldn't be taken lightly since my paternal grandfather was a merchant seaman during the war while my maternal grandfather was a crewman on a destroyer. This is where DAS BOOT is superb, I really felt empathy for these crew man. The story starts slowly by introducing us to the crew via the war correspondent who are celebrating a last night ashore before they sail on their mission to sink British convoys sailing from America to Britain carrying vital supplies for the war effort against Nazi Germany. This is because present day Germans realize that the enemy isn't the other side - it's war itself that's the enemy and DAS BOOT is a great example of this thinking But when it comes to making anti - war movies that shows the horrors of war and the courage of men in battle the Germans are top of the league, heads and shoulders above everyone else. Having suffered the tragedy of Vietnam the Americans finally made anti- war movies that were a million miles removed from the old John Wayne and Errol Flynn star vehicles where a man wipes out 30 enemy soldiers single handed without suffering a scratch. The Brits don't seem to know the difference and seem keen to make anti- military / anti - soldier self loathing war movies with Paul Greengrass's RESURRECTED a good example. When someone makes an anti war statement it's important that they differentiate between being " anti war " and " anti military ". Instead I've decided to review Wolfgang Petersen's director's cut which is far closer to the miniseries version which most readers will be familiar with I've decided not to review the 1981 dubbed cinematic release of DAS BOOT. Reviewed by Theo Robertson 9 / 10 Review Of The Director's Cut He said, and I utterly agreed with him this was just about the finest anti-war film ever made. They were just ordinary men caught up in extraordinary times and this film captured everything from fear to boredom and relief. My father said that film bought tears to his eyes. My father attended his funeral in Duisburg and he was welcomed as an old friend by the survivors of that U Boat sinking. He formed a friendship with a submariner called Gotz Stiffel and they remained friends until Gotz passed away. Many of them had formed friendships with the Royal Navy men, including my father. They were put down at Scapa Flow as POW's after being at sea for 5 weeks. They were just ordinary men doing the bidding of their masters, just like he was. He told me that his ship picked up some U Boat survivors from a ramming. He told me that seamen, even those on opposite sides, share something unique. Nothing could have been further from the truth. My late father served in the Royal Navy in WWII and was torpedoed by a U Boat, so when I sat with him to watch this in 1986, I fully expected him to be filled with hatred for them. Reviewed by Essex_Rider 10 / 10 Emotionally Draining "Das Boot" is the story of the crew of one such U-Boat, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, all the while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, German U-boats have begun to take heavy losses. It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy British shipping.
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