What I like about this part of Das Boot is that at this point, it's not even a war movie. It's a group of men trying to survive a terrifying situation.
... and the most stunning achievement of all was gripping the majority of the British viewing public when this was broadcast in the 80s, on the edge of their sofas , chewing their nails and willing a ragtag bunch of GERMAN sailors to get off the seabed and survive. As the daughter of an RAF father and a German mother, that means more to me than I can describe. Bravura.
Think thats really what i like about most war movies or war era movies. You find more grace and understanding for how war can test, alter and destroy lives, but you also see how people survive/endure or pull together (men and women both). My mom grew up in Berlin middle air raids and house ransacked by both SS and Russians. Women and children also endured a lot onshore with houses ransacked, rapes or threats of rapes, looting, air raids, tending to injured, being injured themselves, evading being sent off to jail or gulag for saying something or doing something, etc.. Lot of respect for the men and women who were medics/nurses dealing with fresh, gruesome combat injuries close to the front too.
Honestly at some times it eels more like a thriller horror movie special during the depth charges scene and if you watch it during night with lights out
Are you talking about the Wehrmacht in terms of units? Because if you’re talking about the Wehrmacht losses in terms of manpower you best chalk it up to at least 1 million. Not counting the insubordination executions and kangaroo courts that surmounted in executions. Not to mention entire eastern theatre.
I served on a submarine. After a fire drill, the ventilation line-up was not correctly set back to the normal operating mode. The entire forward compartment of sleeping crew nearly asphyxiated as CO2 built up in the compartment. Only the "roving watch" randomly checking that compartment with the atmospheric monitor saved us. I was roused with a blinding headache and moved to the operations compartment for fresh air. So yeah, I feel those guys.
The acting’s so good that it doesn’t matter if they aren’t speaking your language. I can just barely hold a conversation in German, but I watched this movie in it for the first time. They are just THAT talented!
THE MUSIC PLAYING WHEN THEY CAME OFF THE BOTTOM TOWARDS THE SURFACE IS EPIC..AND THE CREWS SHEER JOY WHEN THEY REALIZED THEY WERE GOING UP IS WONDERFUL...ONE OF THOSE SCENES I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER...
I can't imagine the sheer terror of those who were lost at sea in these human coffins. It's happened to so many during times of war and accidents in between. Many were killed quickly by depth charges, but can you feel the horror of being in a sub that stays intact, but sinks to the bottom. For those that were trapped in those dark hours, I hope you found peace in the next life.
I don’t think that they were killed quickly by depth charges since they were designed to explode near the sub and disable it. It still could take awhile to die
The boat didn't sink to the bottom. It happened upon a shallow bank. In the Atlantic, the boat would have sunk far below this depth and would have been destroyed.
@@lukl8381Sie sehen uns nicht 1.wo, liegen alle in ihren Kojen und pennen. Nein, wissen sie was? Die sitzen im Kasino und feiern unsere Versenkung. Not yet Kamaraden, Not yet
I know these guys were playing the part of the enemy, but you have got to feel for all submariners and what they went through. It would have been hell.
I understand what you're saying but when thousands of merchant and Royal Naval crews were left to die in the freezing Atlantic after their ships had been destroyed because other ships were not permitted to pick survivors especially on convys i have very little sympathy for them. They made a pact with the devil. On the other hand for the suffering of the ordinary German soldiers at satlingrad .
@@chrisholland7367 I understand your point. I also wonder how the Royal Navy treated the submariners that they rescued. In a flash it went from the hunter to the prey. So I could understand sailors not feeling kinship.
All were normal men just like us. Sent to war by politicians and the military industrial complex in general. They were victims of propaganda. You realise these people aren’t so different from ourselves
@@Blackfyre741 No. Where as I feel for their human story. The truth is these men were supporting a murderous nation that was hell bent on murdering and enslaving much of humanity. In the end... thank God they were all sent to their deaths.
@@chrisholland7367 Was it any different when the americans went for yapanese Ships? And what do you mean with "they made a pact with the devil"? If you have no choice, because the only two options are getting executed or sink the ships of the allies, how can you "make a pact"? You are just thinking way too black and white...
You would have to be a very cold-hearted person to not give a little smile and cheer with the crew when the chief told them she's rising and that needle started to move.
Unvorstellbar was diese Männer in Todesangst damals in solch einer Situation durchlebt haben müssen. Mir jedenfalls läuft dabei ein eiskalter Schauder über den Rücken.
Auch nicht schlimmer als zu Fuß bei Minus 30 Grad durch Tiefschnee vor dem Iwan abhauen zu müssen, oder in einem Keller zu hocken, wenn 1000 Tommyflieger im Anflug sind.
The youngest were 17. In average the old man of a U-Boat (the captain) was 27 years old also even at this age most of them look like if they were in their 40s
I loved where, in the novel, the CO's 1st Officer told him that joke about Party wives, and what made them supple: they got naked, held a stick of chalk between their cheeks, backed up to a blackboard,and wrote the letters-'O-T-T-O'.
Auch ich verstehe den Schrecken des Krieges, ich habe in Vietnam gekämpft und konnte nicht einmal einen Job finden, als ich zurückkam, die Gesellschaft hasste uns und sagte, wir wären nichts
Und ich hoffe, das nachfolgende Generationen aus dem Hurra-Patriotismus gelernt haben und sich nicht mehr freiwillig melden. Solange Menschen Waffen in die Hand nehmen, wird es Krieg geben. Und die Gewinner des Krieges stehen nie an der Front, nicht mal der Heimat-Front, sondern sitzen in Bordellen und Luxusappartments und verkaufen die Waffen - wenn es geht, an beide Seiten.
I believe (though am not certain) in the true life event this is based on, the U-Boat was able to surface but unable to start it's engines. The crew were taken prisoner; which, considering the alternative of being unable to surface, was not really all that bad.
U-96's crew wasn't captured, the movie is based around her 7th patrol, and she managed to pull off 4 more until she stopped at Konigsberg for her last time and was captured.
Well, there was one U-Boat that bottomed at over 700' below the surface (incredible for that day and age) and was later able to surface; could not restart it's engines, and the crew was subsequently captured.Which one it was...I am not sure of now.
@@G0twood The Indonesian U-Boat captain even had Posters of Admiral Karl Donitz in his childhood bedroom. The guy really wanted to become a U-Boat crew since childhood. I guess he fullfilled his dream.
I was invested in the characters, but never forgot that I'm from a country in opposition to the Nazis. They were hitting supply lines that didn't just stop weapons from getting to the British, but also food. They were starving much of Britain.
Lo más emocionante de esta película, que cuando el panorama se veía aterrador y desolador casi sin esperanza y al borde de la muerte, logran sacar fuerzas casi sobre humanas para poder hacer las reparaciones antes que queden sin oxígeno para poder emerger, para mí en lo personal la calificaría la mejor película de este género y también dentro de las 10 mejores películas de todos los tiempos... brillante película la he visto varias veces
Actually when I have difficulties waking up after a rough night of work-study gardening or volunteering.... I fantasize my body is a sub trying to surface and this scene comes to mind... 2:20 is my aching body making those funny sounds. Then I silently stumble into the shower crank it up to hot, and then sleed away back to port.. until the day I finally get it... and I go down for good bahahahahaha.
Cr4z3d It's probably on your side, maybe a slow internet connection? I haven't added any subtitles myself. RU-vid adds them if you have that feature turned on.
Fun fact: the director Wolfgang Peterson recruited the tiniest German speaking actors in the world to crew the miniature submarine used in the filming of this movie. The entire production was placed in jeopardy when a film crew member loaded the miniature submarine in the back of the wrong DHL delivery van, potentially losing the entire cast in a tragic lost-in-transit catastrophe.