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Das Boot (1981) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!! 

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Das Boot (1981)
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@TBRSchmitt
@TBRSchmitt 3 года назад
Super interesting to watch a WW2 movie from a different perspective! Also one of the most stressful movies we have seen! Thank you all for your suggestions and support!
@rockutron9000
@rockutron9000 3 года назад
Definitely check out Stalingrad. It's like Das Boot on land.
@PopeSixtusVI
@PopeSixtusVI 3 года назад
If you can find it; try on Yamato (2005) for size. It's Das Boot for the Japanese.
@BlueSummers101
@BlueSummers101 3 года назад
TBR Schmitt If you really want to watch a WW2 movie or indeed a war movie in general from a different perspective and one that doesn't pull any punches then you really need to react to Come and See. That is a film like no other that I have ever seen.
@stefanbezold8298
@stefanbezold8298 3 года назад
you can still visit the Set in the Studios in Munich and its even more cramped if you stand in it yourself.
@YouHaventSeenMeRight
@YouHaventSeenMeRight 3 года назад
Have a look at "Letters from Iwo Jima". It shows the assault on Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective. It was directed by Clint Eastwood and is the companion movie to Flags of Our Fathers (which deals with Iwo Jima from an American perspective).
@milostomic8539
@milostomic8539 3 года назад
One of the greatest war movies ever made.Dark, ruthless and realistic.
@lampad4549
@lampad4549 3 года назад
Not exactly realistic there have been experts coming out about how unrealistic it is
@milostomic8539
@milostomic8539 3 года назад
@@lampad4549 Some parts maybe but I know what a war can do to people. War is descent into madness and this movie perfectly captures that.
@agenttheater5
@agenttheater5 3 года назад
@@lampad4549 I've heard they brought someone who actually used to help make the submarines in on the film to basically rebuild one just for the movie. Otherwise I don't know but apparently the drills of 'ALARM' are a necessary part of submarine life, you have to be sure everyone is in and down before they go, no-one has a spare second. Like I said, otherwise I don't know what is or isn't realistic.
@StepnieW
@StepnieW 3 года назад
@@milostomic8539 "War is descent into madness and this movie perfectly captures that." That's Apocalypse Now.
@berserkercookie2645
@berserkercookie2645 3 года назад
@@lampad4549 That's a lie as the experts advising the film when it was made were actual navy soldiers from the german marine and u-boot crew who fought in ww2. So your source of that is either made up or complete bullshit. The only thing that could be unrealistic is the first 10 minutes. Anything else is death accurate for the time this took place.
@LeutnantJoker
@LeutnantJoker Год назад
To give you guys a little bit more perspective from the German side: When this movie premiered there were actual submarine veterans in the cinema. Some of them had to walk out because their PTSD flared up, the movie was THAT realistic. But in the end they all thanked the director for finally telling their story. The crew at the end is NOW in makeup. They were actually that pale because they were not allowed to go out in the sun during the production of the movie/show, so they actually were transforming into these ghostly pale men over the course of production. That's what they really looked like. They are also not acting that shaking. They were in a boat/set that could be moved, so they were actually being thrown around and some of them got injured. Language wise it's also interesting. If you're German or have lived long enough in Germany, you can tell the different regional dialects of the actors. It's like Americans being able to tell "oh this guy is from New York, or this guy is from Austin Texas. Most U-boat crew members were recruited both from the German north where the seafaring stuff was going on as well as (mostly actually) from the German Ruhr region, which was heavily industry region in Germany. The reason was that those young guys had experience working with metal and machines and would have the necessary knowledge to keep the boat running and fixing things. Also there were a lot of coal miners there, which were used to working in cramped dark spaces with heavy equipment and not freak out. And the dialects you hear are actually from those regions, since the actors were from there. As for "how can anybody keep working under such stress": That's just military discipline for you. Civilians always wonder why recruits get yelled at all the time in basic training and such. That's not because the drill sergeants are bad people, it's so you get used to loud noises and high stress. You need to be able to function in high stress and with very loud noises going on all around you. You can't have people freaking out when stuff gets loud. Try taking the average guy or girl from the stream and scream at them out of nowhere. They'll be completely paralyzed for a moment and/or freak out. That can't happen to you in such a situation or you die. That's why in the military we slowly build up the stress resistance and the discipline. Without that training, none of this is possible. But that training helps you remain functional in those situations. Your actions kind of go into autopilot, and only when everything is over, the emotions come rushing in. In regards to the "suicide mission" of going through Gibraltar from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean: The Germans actually did that. Several Uboats were opperating in the mediterranean, so this was possible. But it was still highly dangerous. What the movie also hinted at was the Allied superiority in Radar. Early in the war the Uboats stayed under water during the day and came out at night when airplanes couldn't spot them, so they had a major advantage. Early war the night attacks were the standard and super devastating. but later in the war the Allied Radar made that impossible. The allied planes were spotting them via radar, while they were not able to see the attacking airplane until it was too late. That's what happened here, they got spotted by an airplane with radar and got attacked out of nowhere. That's why later in the war the Germans completely changed their tactics and stayed above water during the day, and dived at night. THey could still get spotted in daylight but at least they had a chance to see the airplane in time to avoid it. Also, the fact that they hit sand on the bottom wasn't just a coincidence or luck. When they got spotted (you probably didn't notice that in all the chaos), the captain actually told them to stay surfaced at first, go full speed and changed course to the african coast. He knew they were screwed but if they made it to the african coast, they'd be in Spanish territory and could get interned by Spain and stay in prison in a neutral country for the rest of the war. So he was trying to save his crew, not break through. And the fact that he moved them closer to the african coast meant that he moved them to a more shallow area of the straight. That's why they hit that sand, they were closer to the coast where the sea wasn't as deep. And finally... in case you are wondering why the crew is running like crazy through the boat during alarm: They are not running to their stations. Back then the literally use the crew as ballast. If they wanted to dive, they ordered every man that wasn't needed at their station to the front of the boat, to shift the center of mass and dive quicker. That's why, when they had their depth rudders stuff, the captain ordered all men to the rear of the ship, to try and stop the boat from going down.
@ralok77380
@ralok77380 Год назад
thanks
@gatomouce
@gatomouce Год назад
very interesting !
@hilarygibson3150
@hilarygibson3150 Год назад
Sometimes the information in the comments is fascinating and this certainly is. Thanks for taking the time to explain all that.
@tomsen413
@tomsen413 Год назад
It’s definitely a masterpiece…one of these movies that go well beyond anything you’ve watched before. Fully agree with your comments..thanks!
@AlexD-dj4mr
@AlexD-dj4mr Год назад
“Schalke lost”
@GERSteverino
@GERSteverino 2 года назад
Masterpiece. A few years ago I had the great honor to eat dinner with Jürgen Prochnow (captain) in LA. He was kind enough and very patient to answer every single stupid question I had about this movie and the intense work on it. Best steak of my life.
@kds5895
@kds5895 2 года назад
That’s so sick
@nyoodmono4681
@nyoodmono4681 Год назад
Wow
@tavish4699
@tavish4699 10 месяцев назад
how did that happen?
@oilersridersbluejays
@oilersridersbluejays 7 месяцев назад
Amazing actor.
@ColdWarShot
@ColdWarShot 3 года назад
Glad you liked the film. Here’s some tidbits: The Submarine set was constructed as a completely enclosed set, meaning unlike traditional sets which are segmented for ease of removing sections to accommodate camera and sound crews for certain angle shots, the production had to develop a smaller camera that could easily operate in the confines. If you notice, as the film progresses, the crew get paler and paler. This was not done with makeup. The cast were actually kept out of sunlight for the entire duration of filming, so the paleness is real. One day during filming, the cast and crew went down to the dock where the full sized surface prop was moored. When they got there, the submarine was gone, the anti aircraft gun (on the rear of the Sail or conning tower) had been removed and was sitting there, and all the ropes nicely coiled. Unbeknownst to the cast and crew, Bavarian Studios had made a deal with an American director to briefly use the submarine for an adventure movie. The director was Seven Spielberg, and the movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark. The “Nazi sub” in Raiders is the Das Boot sub. The scenes of the secret base were also filmed at Port LaRochelle as well. In building the set, the designers actually had to fly to the United States. Specifically the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry which holds the most perfectly preserved Type VIII U-Boat. The set is still preserved, though, it has been cut into sections, and can be visited at Bavarian Studios.
@JeremyPhillips1981
@JeremyPhillips1981 3 года назад
I've been in the set, which was/is part of the studio tour at Bavaria Filmstadt. It's that cramped.
@RustyDust101
@RustyDust101 3 года назад
Also, the actors were forbidden to shave (with the exception of the political officer). Drinking water on board those subs was sparse, so bathing and shaving were considered a luxury. Anyone spending more water than usual was called a Badehure, a bathing-whore. So Wolfgang Petersen forbade all actors to shave, unless their crew was supposed to be on shore leave where they would have access to tap water. Also, the waves were generated by a large tower with a huge slide, and a water tank on top. Whenever the waves were supposed to crash into the conning tower set, a huge splash of water was sent down that slide. So yes, the actors were splashed HARD by the water when in their surface set.
3 года назад
They were allowed to be out in daylight, but were not allowed to be out too long, or even, _gasp_, get a tan!
@kratzikatz1
@kratzikatz1 3 года назад
Typ VIII ? U505 ,now in Chicago , is a TypIXC. At Laboe in germany you can visit a Typ VII. And a Typ XXI at Bremerhaven.
@ColdWarShot
@ColdWarShot 3 года назад
@@kratzikatz1 it was a typo, I meant Type VII since the sub in Das Boot is a Type VII-C
@lindsayheyes925
@lindsayheyes925 3 года назад
The U-boat that sunk my grandfather's destroyer with all but 19 of its crew in a storm near the Azores was itself sunk with all hands off the coast of South Africa. The Battle of the Atlantic was utterly brutal, and Das Boot is a superb depiction of the terror - and the contrast of their experience with that of the officers on the supply ship at Vigo. The best war filmography, by a long way, until Band of Brothers equalled it. I have lost count of how many times I have watched this masterpiece. Hey, no CGI either.
@Jerry1848_Luetzow
@Jerry1848_Luetzow 2 года назад
As a german who watched band of brothers... it literally america good, germany bad nazis. It portrays the americans as the ultimate chads who singlehanded won the whole war. On the opposite germans are portrayed something between dumb cavemen and brutal murderous vikings. My grandfather fought against the russians, and he never spoke bad about his enemys, i dont really know why american ww2 movies need to be absolute Propaganda against germany and german people. There is a reason why germans dont see americans as allies today
@lindsayheyes925
@lindsayheyes925 2 года назад
@@Jerry1848_Luetzow I get your point, but just as the narrative of Das Boot follows a crew on one side, so Band of Brothers follows an infantry unit on the other. As in all good scripts there must be protagonists and antagonists, and it is the task of all in the production to make the audience feel sympathy with the protagonists, and to that dramatic end portray antagonists as either worthy adversaries or monsters. That explains why - films are not history, they are dramatisations. And it is a truth of combat that you don't get to know your enemy - if you see them at all, they are just targets. In Hollywood, combatants do all sorts of threat displays and square up to each other, which creates suspense, and the viewer gets to know the protagonists, their struggles, back-story and so on, so that some sort of dilemma can be portrayed. The narrative is about them. Rarely so with the antagonists, they are usually vaguely sketched in the shorthand of stereotypes. And for the record, my grandfather had no overt hatred of Germans, who sunk ships under him three times and gave him good cause. However, he did say that he hated Americans - who had given him no cause - and also the Communists in Russia, the latter for their utter brutality to their own people, which he saw when in Archangelsk. There's nowt so queer as folk.
@martinn.6082
@martinn.6082 2 года назад
@@Jerry1848_Luetzow get real, the Germans hated the Russians. There was so much propaganda.
@Jerry1848_Luetzow
@Jerry1848_Luetzow 2 года назад
@@martinn.6082 Not really i dont think you ever spoke to german veterans, or germans at all. So you can think whatever you want. But i put my my trust in to the people who fought in this war. Sure the gouvernement wanted the germans to hate russians and sure some germans really hated them. But as far as i know the americans were the most hated by the germans, especially after the war until today... this is all i can say from the perspective of a german (me)
@martinn.6082
@martinn.6082 2 года назад
@@Jerry1848_Luetzow ich denke, es gibt deutliche Hinweise darauf, dass Amerikaner weniger verhasst und gefürchtet waren. 1) Gegen Ende des Krieges versuchten viele deutsche Soldaten, in amerikanische, britische oder französische Gefangenschaft statt in russische zu geraten. 2) Aus dem Osten gab es aus Angst eine riesige Flüchtlingswelle. Vergleichbares gab es aus dem Westen nie. 3) Rassistische Propagnda gegen Slawen und Russen gab es zuhauf, gegen Amerikaner maximal gegen Schwarze. Der Mythos von der unschuldigen Wehrmacht ist ein Mythos, nichts weiter.
@scgehficken
@scgehficken 2 года назад
My Uncle was on U-588. I studied the log book. They helpt a lot people wich are on boats after an attack (if there was not a destroyer in the near). They repaired the rescue boats and gave them food, alcohol, and cigarettes. Nobody talks about that.
@guymorris6596
@guymorris6596 Год назад
Thank you to your uncle for his service aboard U 588 and her crew for their humanitarian efforts to assist the crews of those ships.
@z00mbi3s
@z00mbi3s Год назад
With all the respect to Your uncle this sounds a bit strange when it comes to history. The rule about "no prisoners or taking survivors" was an order and breaking it would be punished for sure if such thing would end up in a log book, there might be some moments in history where u boot crew would help some survivors but rather no one would be talking about it. A good explanation for this can be found in story of a heavy damaged B17 that was escorted back to england by one Me 109, in british reports the story was made secret as allied command was afraid that spread of the story that some german pilot has shown humanitarian ways while he could score a easy shotdown could possibli affect soldiers as it`s harder to kill enemy when you think that they can be humanitarian.
@DSP16569
@DSP16569 Год назад
@@z00mbi3s This order was given in the middle of the war after some "helping" - Submarines where attacked by allied forces.
@z00mbi3s
@z00mbi3s Год назад
@@DSP16569 Like i said, it is possible such actions were done but i hardly belive such order was made in middle of WWII as U boots were used even in WWI and even at that time it was common knowledge that a U Boot has no capability to operate and take prisoners or help them, it would be same thing as modern nuclear submarine trying to act like some sort of torpedo speed boat on surface. There is a possibility that some captains were helping but still making a log out of it would be a suicide for military service records.
@kpiniak
@kpiniak Год назад
Watch the movie "The Sinking of the Laconia," it shows that.
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 2 года назад
They weren't rescued, because it was policy of the convoys to not stop and pick up survivors with Uboats being around. Speed was their only defence in the vastness of the Atlantic, and the escort ships were busy fending off/hunting down the subs. The Germans were forbidden from rescuing anyone, due to them doing it before, and when they went to rescue people from the sunk Laconia in the Mediterranean and even calling in a couple other subs to pick up survivors, they were attacked by US planes... they broadcast on open frequency, that they were doing rescue operations, flew Red Cross flags on the ships' hulls, and asked for Allied assistance in getting these people out. The Americans instead sent bombers to attack the submarines, packed with civilians they had rescued, forcing them to emergency dive and abandoning them. The Brits knew what the Americans were doing and that there would be a lot of collateral, and did nothing to either ask them to stop or warn the Germans... After that Adolf ordered that no survivors were to be picked up. Also a British commander of a submarine, who retired in the 50s as a Vice Admiral (2nd highest rank in the Navy) and with a Victoria Cross (highest decoration), murdered German sailors in the water on at least two different occasions, and even bragged about it in his log book. He machine gunned them in their life boats. Plenty of war crimes to go around on both sides, but you only ever hear about what the Germans, Japanese etc. did....
@violentscorl697
@violentscorl697 2 года назад
THIS. Especially the part about the Laconia incident. I cannot count the instances I had to explain this to other people, as so little know of the true reason behind the Kriegsmarine‘s „no rescue operations“ order. It wasn’t out of inhumane cruelty on the German‘s side but out of a need to protect their own men from devious attacks by the Americans.
@Helena-me6mp
@Helena-me6mp 2 года назад
its always the germans, all the warcrimes were commited by germans, nobody talks about US or UK warcrimes
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 2 года назад
@@Helena-me6mp I once wrote a quora reply about dozens of Allied warcrimes, ranging from murdering people who had either already surrendered and been taken POW or were in the process of surrendering (+ who had given the orders and which units were involved to gang rapes where GIs ie attacked a hospital on a whistle signal. I was banned soon after for being "offensive". They always bring up Malmedy (1944), but the Americans had murdered Italian and German PoW already one year earlier at Biscari (1943) and they were murdering Germans and others who tried to surrender or had surrendered during D-Day and after. And soon after Malmedy they murdered another 80 Waffen SS as "justice" for Malmedy. Major General Raymond Huyfft ordered his troops to stop taking prisoners once they crossed the Rhine. He later reflected on it saying that if they had lost the war, he would have been on trial in Nuremberg. Over 1/3rd of American service members of WW2 admitted that they saw war crimes being committed by their own side. The British also have plenty of dirt on them, ranging from genocide (that was masked with incompetence) in Bengal (they caused a famine that killed millions in 1943) + another one in Iran/Persia in BOTH world wars 2 (another neutral country they attacked for no reason, other than it being useful to overall strategy, which they are so fond of reminding everyone that Germany attacked neutral countries), to gunning down defenceless sailors in life boats etc. The French were some of the worst. One of the earliest instances was the Massacre of Abeville in 1940, when France was close to collapsing. Many Belgian right wing politicians (and that doesn't mean they were fascists or nazis, just right of the center) were arrested on order of the social "democrat" government when war broke out, since they "might be unreliable". They were then handed over to the French intelligence service (2eme Bureau), and many of them were massacred at Abbeville as the Germans closed in. ie Leon Degrelle (a Belgian parliamentarian and leader of the Rexist party, who were Christian/Catholic right wingers) escaped with his life, and he was the one who originally found out that the Belgian Soc-Dems had also drawn up a list of right wing officers in the Belgian military that were to be arrested also and handed over, and went to the Belgian King with this to stop it (knowing he'd still be arrested, even though he had parliamentarian immunity and this was highly illegal and undemocratic). The French were one of the premier perpetrators when it came to killing PoW especially once the Allies started retaking France.
@Helena-me6mp
@Helena-me6mp 2 года назад
@@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 "I was banned soon after for being "offensive"." Thats so ridiculous wtf? But honestly im not surprised, having different opinions or stating facts is often offensive to idiots.
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 2 года назад
@@Helena-me6mp yeah I even cited all the sources for each individual thing I mentioned. didn#t matter one bit.
@exeterjedi6730
@exeterjedi6730 3 года назад
My dad was a submariner in the 70s - still diesel submarines, and he smoked then. There was so little oxygen in the air you couldn't light your cigarette. I think they might have had 3 to a bunk, because you just get 8 hour shifts. The food was often stale and mouldy. The submariners get so messed up by being at sea they have a 24 hour acclimation to being back on shore before they go off duty. And that was peacetime. Alcoholism was common, including with my dad. Submarines compress under pressure, so if you hang a string tightly across the inside, at depth the string will hang lower.
@D2jspOFFICIAL
@D2jspOFFICIAL 3 года назад
i thought they had 4 hour shifts no?
@stobe187
@stobe187 3 года назад
Such an incredible movie. The tension just grows with the beards.
@Makatak-kx8kv
@Makatak-kx8kv 3 года назад
Claustrophobic as heck
@catherinelw9365
@catherinelw9365 3 года назад
True, although I laughed when I read the second sentence. It sounded ludicrous but it’s entirely factual!
@KRAFTWERK2K6
@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад
Das Boot was shot in chronologic order. Which is rare for movie productions. But it was done on purpose.
@stobe187
@stobe187 3 года назад
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The director Wolfgang Petersen also made sure that the cast stayed indoors as much as possible to get that pale look to increase during filming.
@8AFM4
@8AFM4 3 года назад
I love how you guys take the time to review and share your thoughts at the end of the movies you watch
@curtisbrack3398
@curtisbrack3398 3 года назад
The goggles you see a couple of the crew wearing were for crew that might have to go up on deck when they surfaced at night. They wanted to keep these guys in the dark so they could preserve their night-vision so they could work fast while surfaced. If they went outside into the dark after being in the lights of the ship, it would take them many minutes for their eyes to adjust. That's enough time to get you sunk. As a side note, the American crews who wore these goggles found that the red pips (hearts and diamonds) on playing cards would disappear when they wore their goggles. They just couldn't see them. So the U.S. Navy had the company Brown & Bigelow make special playing cards for the sub crews with the diamonds and hearts outlined in black so the crews in their goggles could still play cards while waiting for duty.
@KrillLiberator
@KrillLiberator 3 года назад
Awesome trivia - I love that!
@matnichol
@matnichol 3 года назад
I knew about the goggles but had no idea about the cards. That’s great.
@davidwright7193
@davidwright7193 2 года назад
The real companion piece to this is “The Cruel Sea” which tells the story of the Battle of the Atlantic from the point of view of the crew of a British corvette.
@GeorgHaeder
@GeorgHaeder 2 года назад
Great classic British war movie, one of my favorites.
@barrythatcher9349
@barrythatcher9349 2 года назад
The Cruel Sea is a legendary movie.
@andreaswand6935
@andreaswand6935 2 года назад
@TBR Schmitt: You ask why High Command denied that Lt. Werner and the Chief Technician to leave the Boot. The answer is: The Habor (Vigo) is in Spain. Spain was "neutral" at this time. The two guys would have to get smuggled through spain. There was a chance that they will get caught in the process and interrogated and so the whole operation would be uncovered. High Command was not taking these chances. It just shows that in war individual people and their fate means nothing.
@MrUndersolo
@MrUndersolo 3 года назад
Never saw the extended version, but I remember that this came out when I was a kid and I was fascinated that the Germans were not that different from people I knew around me. War always builds walls around us. We need to remember that lesson forever and never forget it.
@Bill-v7p8x
@Bill-v7p8x 8 месяцев назад
My dad served on subs during Korea, so he knew the smaller diesel vessels. He said this is the most accurate depiction of a bubblehead's life he'd ever run across.
@michaelgonos3165
@michaelgonos3165 3 месяца назад
One of my favorite moments is how, when they keep missing the convoys, and someone (I believe the skipper) muses how something is wrong, while in the background, one of the crew is typing a message on an Enigma machine... 😀
@elwray3506
@elwray3506 3 года назад
Mad respect for watching such a long foreign movie with subs. Thanks.
@dieselbuilder5901
@dieselbuilder5901 3 года назад
One of the best war films ever! The claustrophobic feeling that the movie gives you is made all the more real by the fact that the film makers actually built the set inside a true scale sized steel tube with no broken wall to film through, so for the actors it was just like being inside a submarine.
@RustyDust101
@RustyDust101 3 года назад
Both the actors and the camera crews actually had to run and dive through the submarine airlocks.
@Concorde4711
@Concorde4711 3 года назад
The real chief engineer of this boat is still alive. His name is Friedrich Grade and he is 105y old.
@MichaelPower212
@MichaelPower212 2 года назад
I had the opportunity once to be a guest aboard a U.S. diesel sub for a four day transit from Yokosuka to Sasebo, Japan. Diesel subs are very different from the nuclear powered subs. They are more cramped and grimmer. One term which sets them apart is that they are known as pig boats. Crew members rarely bath if at all due to the limited availability of water. At the 6:00 mark one of the German crewman was describing what is referred to as hot bunking. That is two members share the same bunk (rack). While one is on watch the other sleeps. So it was on the SS Darter. After my watch in radio ended, I went to my shared rack to wake up the crewman sleeping in it. He tossed the wool blanket off and was still in his dungaree work clothes. There was no sheets or pillow case. The mattress is encased in a thick plastic bag which had a greasy feel to it. I knew then that it was going to be a long four day journey. At 7:40 there was a test of the depth pressure. Since I worked with submariners while on shore duty at Submarine Group Seven (I was a surface ship sailor), they told stories of impressing visitors to the contraction the hull goes through at the higher pressures. A string was stretched taunt from the starboard to the port bulkheads while on the surface. Several washers and nuts were threaded by the string and positioned in its middle. The deeper the sub went the string became more and more slack with washers and nuts hanging lower and lower. Allied ships hit by u-boats (sunk, damaged, captured) 1939 165 (Sep-Dec) 1940 563 1941 501 1942 1,322 (The 1st year of U.S. engaged in the war) 1943 582 1944 243 1945 98 (Jan-Apr) Total 3,474 U-boats lost 1939 9 1940 24 1941 35 1942 87 1943 244 1944 249 1945 120 Total 768 Behind the scenes in the making of Das Boot ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MxnhXCP-uWs.html -Virginia Beach, Virginia
@culnaurion
@culnaurion 3 месяца назад
Trivia: Wolfgang Petersen (director) once in an interview said, that they didn't expect international success at all. He remembered at the first (international?) cinema show the audience applauded when the number of German casulties were shown in the opening so he and his colleagues wanted to curl up and die but at the end the audience gave standing ovations.
@58keiler
@58keiler 3 года назад
The film is not only within the Top Ten of war movies but launched the careers of the director Wolfgang Petersen and all actors for the following 30 years. All of them became quite famous and are still in Germany. Sadly the actor of the chief engineer here died in his fifties, and the war correspondent here became an even more popular singer in Germany, mostly ballads. Not to forget he composed the unofficial anthem of the Ruhr steel region in Germany - called Bochum after a town here.
@Sebastian-dp2sc
@Sebastian-dp2sc 3 года назад
Still one of the best Warmovies. Also good Warmovies with the "German View" is "Cross of Iron" (Steiner - das eiserne Kreuz) and "Stalingrad".
@DerOberfeldwebel
@DerOberfeldwebel 3 года назад
Just keep in mind Steiner is like Highlander. There's only one such movie, the rest is bad stuff trying to cash in on the success of the one movie.
@Sebastian-dp2sc
@Sebastian-dp2sc 3 года назад
@@DerOberfeldwebel Yeah thats right.
@AudieHolland
@AudieHolland 3 года назад
"Cross of Iron (1979)" has a lot of German actors playing in the secondary roles. And of course Maximilian Schell was 'German' (born in Austria).
@africankungfunazis920
@africankungfunazis920 6 месяцев назад
Thank you for reviewing the best German movie ever made in my opinion. Just wanted to mention, the reason why the photographer survived is that his character is based on a true person, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, who wrote the book "Das Boot" years after the war about his experiences on board.
@My-Name-Isnt-Important
@My-Name-Isnt-Important 3 года назад
OMG! Excuse me... Oh Mein Gott! Excellent film, and it's the most accurate WWII film ever made. It is extremely well done. I love the soundtrack too. I am so surprised you're doing this film, I don't think anyone else has.
@staceypiper3319
@staceypiper3319 3 года назад
“Come and See” is another war movie from a different perspective. Not for the faint of heart
@soundofeighthooves
@soundofeighthooves 3 года назад
communist propaganda
@Chrischi3TutorialLPs
@Chrischi3TutorialLPs 20 дней назад
By the way, they actually placed the entire set on a hydraulic stage. When the crew gets thrown aroung whenever a depth charge detonates... yeah, that's the hydraulic platform they're on physically tossing them around. Honestly, i think Hollywood needs to relearn physical effects.
@kiliipower355
@kiliipower355 3 года назад
An uncle of mine (born 22) was on a submarine like that. When the film was released, he was not able to watch it. Too many memories. He survived the missions, but afterwards he was no longer able to stay in closed rooms for a long time (claustrophobia). He worked for Lufthansa until he retired. He repaired aircraft...in hangars as big as football fields.
@custardflan
@custardflan Год назад
From a foot soldier perspective, All Quiet on the Western Front is from the German side. I like the recent Netflix film. There's also a great film from the 19302s starring Lew Ayres.
@richardlincoln886
@richardlincoln886 3 года назад
Stunning film, saw this in the UK re-runs in the 1980s in my late teens - a whole series of episodes serialised every week, in German with English subtitles. Original German with subtitles is the best way to watch it, IMO, even if subtitles are off here and there. The ending, and the end credits with statistics on the number of sailors who died in U-Boats. :(
@Chrischi3TutorialLPs
@Chrischi3TutorialLPs Год назад
The most difficult part about sealing a leak aboard a submarine is the pressure. See, with every 10 meters you dive, you increase the outside pressure by one atmosphere. Doesn't sound like much, until you realize that one atmosphere is 1 ton of force per square meter. Of course, so long as this pressure is everywhere, it doesn't make a difference, since the air inside pushes back against the air outside just as hard as it pushes in. once a submarine starts diving, however, the pressure on the inside must remain the same, lest it kills the crew (as the atmosphere can only contain so much oxygen before we die of hyperoxia, but you need the oxygen to have a certain percentage of the pressure for enough of it to be absorbed, too). At 10 meters, you have 2 atmospheres of pressure (remember you also have to include Earth's atmosphere in addition to water pressure). In the convoy attack, U-96 dives down to 220 meters. At this depth, a submarine would experience 23 tons per square meter of pressure. To put that into perspective, that's equivalent to 9 kilograms of force pressing down on an area the size of a postage stamp. Not quite the 1400 atmospheres used to cut steel with a water cutter, but still, not something i'd like my hand to end up in.
@dport9563
@dport9563 3 года назад
The ending showed the use of bunker busters first usage . The bombs dropped were largest used in WWII the exploded dock roof was moved 15 feet .
@2tone753
@2tone753 2 месяца назад
Addendum: Later in the war, the Allies used so-called killer groups, which consisted of several ships, against the submarines. From March 43 a new weapon called the Hedgehog was introduced. U-boat casualty rates shot up. From 1943 onwards, the sacrifice of the submarine weapon began until May 8th. 45 (day of the unconditional surrender of the German Empire) lasted. The loss rate of the submarine crews was 75%, the highest of all branches of the armed forces. To clarify, the improvement of the weapons: The hit rate of the conventional depth charges was 7%, that of the Hedgehog was 25% due to extensive improvements and changes to the weapon systems.
@chrisserfass8635
@chrisserfass8635 3 года назад
The Next movie you should watch is K*19 widowmaker. Another movie that you should react to is Downfall.
@StayFractalesque
@StayFractalesque 3 года назад
U-571 is another I remember
@StayFractalesque
@StayFractalesque 3 года назад
can I make a suggestion? "Upgrade" is an independent science fiction cyberpunk film.. it has a gripping suspenseful story with great action and a surprisingly emotional center!
@m.e.3862
@m.e.3862 3 года назад
Yes. It's a very good film with interesting, contemporary ideas about the definition of what is human
@romanbanias2218
@romanbanias2218 6 месяцев назад
Just catching this for the first time, and I thought I'd throw a fun fact at you. "It's A Long Way to Tipperary" was written by an Irishman. This particular version was recorded by the Red Army Choir. So in effect, it's almost twice as "wrong" for them to be listening to it!
@robtalbot3852
@robtalbot3852 3 года назад
The "running up and down" is not just for effect, it was a standard way of shifting "human ballast" for diving (all off-duty rush to the front).
@2tone753
@2tone753 2 месяца назад
Now my last post. From mid-1943, what is known as the "sacrifice" of the submarine weapon began. It lasted until May 8, 1945, the day of the unconditional surrender of the German Reich. Just a number for better understanding: In 1943, 287 German submarines were lost, almost twice as many as in the previous three years And so it continues.
@5Andysalive
@5Andysalive 3 года назад
There is a great bit in the audio cmmentary by Petersen and Prochnov. On premiereing first time in the US that initial messages about the Sailors never returned, the audience was applauding. And they said, they both thought "oh my god this is gonna be a disaster". But it ended with standing ovations.
@robertschmidt7625
@robertschmidt7625 2 года назад
You should check out the original uncut version. A lot longer but with more detail into the characters as well the action.
@agentolshki1690
@agentolshki1690 2 года назад
75% of the German u boat crews died in ww2 (about 28000). Imagine how many drowned as they took on water or just kept charging deeper until the boat imploded or even sat on the bottom until they ran out of air. So many lives...
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 2 года назад
I've been on the set of Das Boot at Bavaria Film studios. Cramped af, and I was a kid back then (12 ish). But the movie shows perfectly what war/combat is like.... hours, days, weeks of extreme boredom, filled with moments/minutes (or in the case of these Submariners, who proportionally had the highest casualties of all German troops during the war with well over a third never making it back home, hours and days even) of sheer terror.
@gajustempus
@gajustempus 2 года назад
even the more recent submarines are VERY cramped. If one feels like, the Marine Museum in Wilhelmshaven has a functional, old submarine there for you to crawl through. IF you fit through the hatches...
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 2 года назад
@@gajustempus Yeah, I know, but it's on the wrong side of Germany for me. I'm in the "other" Germany, the one who tries so hard to pretend that it was a victim, had nothing to do with any of it + that is "not" ethnically German and always hates on Germans, unfortunately..
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 2 года назад
@@gajustempus I just reread your comment, and that's not quite true. Depending what you mean by "more recent" anyway. Yes, it was true for many decades after the war, and on many subs except the newest models the 2 person cots were STILL a thing (2 people sharing cots in shifts), but it's not true for the most modern subs. Ie the newest German subs have tiny crews, are very roomy on the inside (for a submarine), etc. They're also the 2nd or so quietest submarines in existance. The quietest (unless that has changed, I've not read about the subject in 4-5 years) is afaik a Swedish submarine. They did tests with both the German and Swedish sub vs a US aircraft carrier group. Both subs were easily able to penetrate the escort screen, get in position to fire off a couple of torpedos (simulated, ofc), and slip away again undetected. Even modern day nuclear powered attack subs (that are for hunting the nuclear ballistic missile subs) are much roomier, smaller crews and 1 person per cot, these days.
@jimc-w9312
@jimc-w9312 3 года назад
Me again...P & O class boats I served on had Q tank right at pointy end. It held 10 tons of water and was used when diving so we didn't all have to run into fore ends
@Ander01SE
@Ander01SE 2 года назад
Funny how many WW2 movies has been made, and the best ones are made by Germany and Japan (Grave of Fireflies). :p
@stevemenegaz9824
@stevemenegaz9824 Месяц назад
It is fairly common in German films to go from a very happy resolution then to tragedy. The Marriage of Maria Braun comes to mind.
@wilfriedhuthmacher4113
@wilfriedhuthmacher4113 2 года назад
In realitiy: no bolts broek off and flow around like bullets. About the "Kaleun" (captain) and his "aggressivity)" in the discussion at the end of the movie: as a captain of a sub - his mission was to sink the enemy.... leading young men too weak, can encourage the young men to loose the respect to their captain. On the other side: at this time male men were like this. The tactis behind the ried tranfser to the mediterenean sea: just send more boats there.... there still was the fight in North Africa or Lybia and Egypt (Rommel and the "Afrika Korps") and the sub had to sink british convoy ships to Malta or maybe even war ships, like the HMS Barham und "HMS Ark Royal" and others. (Some Subs even fought in the Black Sea near the russian coas, but they were transferred in parts ober the river Danubia.) The weak point to the Mediterenean sea of course was: Gibraltar.
@potusuk
@potusuk 2 года назад
the brotherhood of all submariners of every country recognise Das Boot, always have. Whenever a sub goes missing... no matter whose, they all hurt.
@steveallen8987
@steveallen8987 Год назад
The reporter wrote a book about his actual war cruise. The he wrote a best selling novel. So this movie is based on an actual war patrol. The factual books has the original photos he took, dead ringers for the images in the movie.
@wolf310ii
@wolf310ii 9 месяцев назад
Its a fictional novel, not a factual book, read the KTB of the 7th patrol of U96, thats a factual "book". The burning tanker, didnt happen. The long excessive depth charge hunt, didnt happen. Weeks of boredom befor first enemy contact, didnt happen. The sinking by Gibraltar, didnt happen, the real U96 did lay on ground for 20 minutes at 80m and then again at 55m for 4 1/2 hours for repairs.
@tyvernoverlord5363
@tyvernoverlord5363 2 года назад
Torpedoes are 18 to 21 inches in diameter and typically 21 feet long
@UberDurable
@UberDurable Год назад
Another excellent Submarine/WW2/thriller movie: Below (2002) Trailer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jPi19Vzr9vk.html
@PalleRasmussen
@PalleRasmussen 2 месяца назад
This is the most accurate depiction of life on a submarine, higher casualties than Kamikaze pilots. The survivors hated the author of the book though, as he was pretty hard on Dönitz who they all loved. Dönitz was a Nazi, but he was also a good leader of men, he knew the names of all officers in the submarine arm, and he cared for them. And they rewarded that with undying loyalty. You probably do not know, but the US waged an effective sub war against the Japanese (who were amateurs at fighting subs), and the surviving captains of Germany and US subs would often meet after the war and strike up friendships. Sailors are sailors and the sea is the worst enemy (convoy) and submariners are submariners. Germans know how to make war movies; heroism futile, sacrifice in vain. Try Stalingrad (1993) and "Die Brûcke". There is also a Russian one "Come And See" that will traumatise you.
@morinthshepard6567
@morinthshepard6567 2 года назад
03:00The guy on the left is Herbert Grönemeyer one of the best musicians in Germany. Wolfgang Petersen was the Director I think he is more popular for films like In the line of Fire, Troja, The perfect Storm, Outbreak and Air Force One also The neverending Story
@colmhauser9532
@colmhauser9532 Месяц назад
I often sit down with a glass of schnapps and a brockwurst and enjoy this classic
@hafor2846
@hafor2846 День назад
"brockwurst" lel
@colmhauser9532
@colmhauser9532 День назад
@@hafor2846 Yeah, Badger sausage.
@jabezhane
@jabezhane 3 года назад
Amazing stuff. I've bought several versions of this. Finally got the 'full' version on DVD a few years ago. The movie version should be avoided, only for completists. Often I've ordered in a huge pepperoni pizza and some real ales and sat down and watched the whole version. Good times.
@r.g.o3879
@r.g.o3879 3 года назад
They mention Hunt for Red October another great submarine film but what is hard to realize is that Red October was easily ten times bigger than that old diesel electric sub, no comparison in how cramped and rickety that U boat was. You are drawn in to the lives of these men, well past the glory days of the wolf packs that dominated the Atlantic. Now we'll protected convoys with better sonar equipment has spelled the doom of the U boats. Sadly they fought on till the very end some never surrendering chosing to head to Argentina or other south American countries. Many continued to operate ferrying Nazis from Europe to Argentina for months after. One thing that must be acknowledged is that no other nations sub fleet has ever or will ever match the successful combat record of the U boats, Whether you think of them as good or bad their success cannot be argued with. An amazing boat with amazing crews who wrote their names in history
@erictaylor5462
@erictaylor5462 2 года назад
6:00 It is a tradition that submariners get the best food in the navy. They deserved too.
@monteniggrianCRUSHER
@monteniggrianCRUSHER 2 года назад
Yep
@fredklein9005
@fredklein9005 11 месяцев назад
The captain's "nah,nah,nah" at 6:57 min. is in German an expression of dissaproval at what just has been said. (or done) It is not a laughter. A Single "nah" is mostly used as an encouragement to do something. Often combined with "los". So "nah, los" is an expression of impatience from the speaker.
@michaelbuchinger6191
@michaelbuchinger6191 3 года назад
For the movie, they built the whole interior of the Submarine in the Bavarian Film Studios in Munich and I visited them a few years ago. It was so weird just going through it with a group of people having that less space. For shoots on the Submarine like in the harbour they built the top of the Submarine so it xould float and carry people. For some takes they used miniatures of different sizes but its really hardto notice that if you dont know it.
@HarryFlashmanVC
@HarryFlashmanVC Год назад
The casualty rate for UBoat crews was the highest of any group on any side in ww2 80% .
@santoshsharma483
@santoshsharma483 3 года назад
Crimson Tide. Give that one a try. Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman.
@jamesmackenzie9984
@jamesmackenzie9984 3 года назад
A submarine is a boat never a ship. A submariner would correct you if you referred to it as such.
@workonesabs
@workonesabs 3 года назад
Love this film, have it on DVD and now bluray. Awesome on my system in 9ch surround...
@bigsteve6200
@bigsteve6200 2 года назад
once you see this movie. All other Submarine movies pale in comparison. The best American Submarine movie would be RUN Silent, RUN Deep. Still doesn't compare. One film you might want to see. From the German perspective. A Cross of Iron. A film about a Platoon on the Eastern Front. Excellent review.
@neilgriffiths6427
@neilgriffiths6427 3 года назад
It's not the beards that got me, it was the red eyes - these guys looked like hell. A great movie, thanks for your great reactions.
@MrSmithla
@MrSmithla 3 года назад
Y’all commented on how cramped the U-boats were and all submarines, regardless of nation, were certainly that. WWII subs were all diesel boats, that I’m aware of, with fuel tanks that allowed them to stay at sea for long periods of time. Today’s nuclear boats, with much more and better storage, don’t have the look of an airplane cockpit combined with a butcher shop but the machinery on them allows them to, at least theoretically, stay at sea years at a time. Today, as in WWII, the limiting feature is the crew. Needing to replenish food lockers and simple crew fatigue limits the length of cruises and patrols. The machinery, still needing regular maintenance, of course, and the fuel supply, not infinite with diesel and practically infinite for nuclear, means the boats themselves can last longer than the crew or the food supply. I can’t say, for certain, what other Navies do but a US man o’war that floats is called a ‘ship.’ If it submerges, however, it’s a ‘boat.’ I can’t explain exactly why but an aircraft carrier is never a boat and a submarine is never a ship.
@MrSmithla
@MrSmithla 3 года назад
Yet, see if you can wrap your head around this, you can “ship out” on a cruise on a sub.
@PantsuGirl
@PantsuGirl 3 года назад
37:27 They are not pale because of make up but actual lack of sunlight, the actors were intentionally kept out of the sun during filming.
@Mirage_-ls4gf
@Mirage_-ls4gf 3 года назад
40 Years and it's still the best Submarine Movie.
@petereggers7603
@petereggers7603 3 года назад
The good old time... no CGI at all
@jansix4287
@jansix4287 3 года назад
*best war movie 🍿
@hairlokk8672
@hairlokk8672 3 года назад
u-137 is great too
@Gregorzwei
@Gregorzwei 3 года назад
Stimmt zu 100%
@a_23656
@a_23656 3 года назад
with the german young top actors, of their time, for many it was the start of their acting careers.
@staceypiper3319
@staceypiper3319 3 года назад
Someone not afraid of subtitles. Enjoyed this thanks
@bbwng54
@bbwng54 3 года назад
People who refuse to see movies with subtitles are morons- it's their loss to see some great movies (e.g., Parasite)
@wellthismachinekills3809
@wellthismachinekills3809 3 года назад
@Count Drunkula that and bad localizations, I don't know which version these two watched but the subs are definitely more natural sounding than the version I got.
@wellthismachinekills3809
@wellthismachinekills3809 3 года назад
@Count Drunkula oops.. Don't tell on me hehe. Though enough of a reason to convince me to buy the full episodic version.
@borntoclimb7116
@borntoclimb7116 3 года назад
yes
@Matze0480
@Matze0480 3 года назад
So many lost in translation... "zwei saufen ab" = "two going down".. Really?!! "absaufen" is a harsh word for drowning.
@tuschman168
@tuschman168 3 года назад
6:52: "Na na na" is basically a very mild reprimand. The verbal equivalent of waving a finger at a child. He's telling him to mind his manners/not speak out of line.
@Uncle_T
@Uncle_T 3 года назад
It is a story from the German perspective, but mainly from the human perspective.
@simond1574
@simond1574 3 года назад
Good point. Makes no difference, if the boat is German, Japanese or US. The horror was the same on all sides.
@TheKartoffel101
@TheKartoffel101 3 года назад
Same as Generation War
@arnodobler1096
@arnodobler1096 3 года назад
@@TheKartoffel101 and "Letters from Iwo Jima"
@frankbolger3969
@frankbolger3969 3 года назад
Also Cross of Iron, directed by Sam peckinpah. Not a great movie, but interesting because it is shown from the German perspective.
@Bunny99s
@Bunny99s 3 года назад
@@simond1574 Right. Also don't forget: There are no winners in wars, only loosers.
@budhalbr
@budhalbr 3 года назад
I am a retired U.S. Chief Petty Officer, Submariner. 17 years in the submarine force. This movie shakes me to the core every time I see it. For me, this is a horror movie, a history movie, and a movie that shows how human beings are quite capable of pushing through fear for their brothers in arms or as we say, shipmates. Love your channel and how you both approach reacting to these classic movies. I like that you don't critique for good or bad but just for how the movie hits you. Continued success to you both and may I suggest you reacting to TO HELL AND BACK, with Audie Murphy playing himself in the true story movie of his wartime experiences which made him one of America's most-decorated soldiers.
@Pops-km8xt
@Pops-km8xt 2 года назад
Yo Chief, STG2 here, if you operated in the north pacific, we might have tracked you. 85 to 89. Check out Greyhound for our perspective
@guymorris6596
@guymorris6596 Год назад
Chief and STG2 Pops, thank you for your service from an honorably discharged US Army veteran.
@budhalbr
@budhalbr Год назад
@@guymorris6596 Ditto, thanks for taking the time to say something. God bless you!
@evilpenguinmas
@evilpenguinmas 3 месяца назад
My older brother is a retired submarine reactor operator. This is his "favorite" (as in gives him the screaming heebie jeebies) submarine movie. He served on fast attack boats, not the boomers.
@Sander-zj3wi
@Sander-zj3wi 3 года назад
Fun facts: The captain at the beginning really was drunk while filming. All the food in the u-boat was real. Over the course of filming it slowly decayed. The water inside really was rotting and smelling. Then they bought all the cologne they could get their hands on to mask the smell. The crew (actors) really had to scoop al the water for hours, making them really (real) tired. The actors could not go out into the sun while filming. All the beards are real. The big boot at the beginning and ending was made from wood. Parts of the movie had to be re-dubbed in German, because the hand-held camera they used for action scenes made a loud whirring sound. The outside scenes where made with a 60% scale model with a diver inside. Then they overshot with 60% more speed. Slowed down to 100% it then looked like the big thing. The scene where they encounter the other sub where barbie dolls waving through a mechanism. When the movie was first shown they invited real German u-boat captains and sailors. The officers where outraged about the slang and jokes, and that did not happen on their boats. Then the real sailors confirmed that is was pretty realistic. Edit 2023: For the bolts snapping they shot a carbine with blanks. The test pressure of this sub type was 160 m. They did a modern day calculation of the burst pressure, so when the hull would implode, and it was 280 m, just like the max. in the movie. I always thought it was made up, but more realistic than i thought. Go watch the 6 part series. It is worth it.
@Trek001
@Trek001 3 года назад
That was actually the second Captain at the start - the first drank on set and was fired for it. The replacement actually had to be *made* drunk During a rare break in production, a number of former uboat crew were being shown around the set - a production assistant was fixing something on a panel and hit the alarm button. Despite not having been in a boat since 1945, five of them being shown around instantly dived for stations! Jürgen Prochnow's first English speaking role was a redub of his own character in the film A review in a UK film trade paper stated "This may very well be the first film in which it is permissible to cheer for the Germans"
@DevSolar
@DevSolar 3 года назад
Correct, except for two things. Of course the actors did not have to eat spoiled food. And they did not have to do hard labor. I don't know about Holywood, but that wouldn't have flown in West Germany... Other trivia: The "man overboard" scene was actually an on-set accident. A contraption was built to spray water at the bridge, and one of the actors (Jan Fedder) lost his footing, actually injuring himself in the fall. The "man overboard!" call is genuine and was kept in the final cut. @Trek001: Thomsen was played by Otto Sander, and yes, he *did* get intentionally drunk for the scene. No, he was not fired for it.
@Trek001
@Trek001 3 года назад
@@DevSolar No, they originally had somebody else for Thomsen - its on the commentary for one of the DVD versions
@matnichol
@matnichol 3 года назад
Herbert Grönemeyer (Lt. Werner) said that the filming conditions put him off acting so much that he concentrated on music. He is now considered one of Germany’s premier musicians.
@bartrazin
@bartrazin 3 года назад
The boat used for the exterior shots was loaned by Steven Spielberg for Raiders!. Most of the German actors dubbed their voices in English. Klaus Doldinger´s music was used in U96 song¨Das Boot¨ and Doldinger would also score The Never Ending Story. In one of the last scenes you see twin engine bombers taking evasive action,but the look very much like the CASA bomber´s used in Battle if Britain(Heinkel´s made in Spain by Casa with Rolls Royce engines)but i am not sure but they look very similar to the shot in Battle of Britain when the bomber´s attack from Norway.
@SidneyKenson
@SidneyKenson 3 года назад
The scene with the guys jumping off the burning freighter is developed to way more depth in the 5 hour version. For everyone to whom that is available, it's a 6 part TV movie of 50 minutes each. And believe me, it is worth every single minute. You get so much more insight in the characters. If you get the opportunity to watch it, do it.
@kazazel1899
@kazazel1899 3 года назад
I concur.
@smigoltime
@smigoltime 3 года назад
Sadly it's not anywhere in internet :(
@SidneyKenson
@SidneyKenson 3 года назад
@@smigoltime It is available in German Amazon as VoD.
@kazazel1899
@kazazel1899 3 года назад
@@smigoltime physical media ;-)
@krashd
@krashd 3 года назад
I've been looking for that for years.
@Hanneskarl1
@Hanneskarl1 2 года назад
I've read over 100 comments here and I agree to all of the credits. But I miss comments on Jost Vacano because I think this cameraman has given us one of the most impressive examples of film art in history! Joost, thank You for this masterpiece!
@MartinBeerbom
@MartinBeerbom 5 месяцев назад
Jost and German camera company Arri built a really small film camera to make it possible to move around in the cramped space. Only with this camera could they get these shots running through the whole length of the boat with no cuts. Only problem was that the camera was really loud, so they had to re-dub almost all of the dialog.
@stefanb.479
@stefanb.479 2 года назад
I knew a man who was a survivor of that submarine war. He said that the food was rotten within days down there, but you would eat it - or starve. Nevertheless, he lived to the age of 95.
@waynehatchell6343
@waynehatchell6343 2 года назад
My grandfather on my mother side served in the U-Boot service and part of the "Wolf Pack." He survived WWII. He served from the beginning of the war to the end. They surrendered the U-Boot to the British at the end of war.
@udokrause832
@udokrause832 2 года назад
Zu früh! Die XXI hatte einen Kühlschrank!
@glennlingard7851
@glennlingard7851 Год назад
@@waynehatchell6343 thank you, the trouble is some people don’t know or understand the half of it at the end of the day how brave them lot were.
@Danisachan
@Danisachan 3 года назад
Now you can understand why the sailors were all drunk at the beginning of the movie. They all knew that the life of a uboat sailor was just mainly constant fear and terror, and every night might be their last one. And so they partied away like it might be their last night on earth. For many of them it was.
@kratzikatz1
@kratzikatz1 3 года назад
About 75% were killed in action!
@DonP_is_lostagain
@DonP_is_lostagain 3 года назад
Everyone of us who have been in combat feel the same way, and used to party just as hard.
@christianschluter6458
@christianschluter6458 3 года назад
Sorry - that was added fictional in the novel this movie is based on. Buchheim (the author) was in the propaganda department (and actually ot a nice guy - very egoistic and very egocentric) and even after the war he made 'his story' of reality. What you saw in the movie was in reality a meeting with officers, coffee and cake with crewmates an their wifes and having a nice boring evining ... Source: Gerrit Reichert: U96 - Realität und Mythos (damned good book) ... Buchheim 'arranged' several incidents in the novel (and thus in the movie) which were fake - and some of the original Crew (yes - most of them survived including the captain), were quite pissed off about it ...
@ohauss
@ohauss 2 года назад
@@christianschluter6458 Buchheim compressed several trips into one, because otherwise the bordedom of many weeks without any action would have been even more intense. And Buchheim himself criticised some of the leeway the movie took.
@davidw.2791
@davidw.2791 2 года назад
@@ohauss It had to be compressed, or else the ending wouldn’t make sense: Allies couldn’t bomb German-Occupied-France with so many planes at once in late 1941 early 1942.
@RustyDust101
@RustyDust101 2 года назад
Like someone said, life on a German submarine in WWII was 95% absolute, utterly unbreakable, hellish boredom, followed by 5% mind-numbing, terrifying, hellish action. If you survived your duties, you were scarred by it. Some sailors were not certain what was worse. That 'man overboard' scene was not planned but happened due to the massive waves being sent into them from of the tower prop. It was a 10 meter slanted tower (30 feet tall) with a huge water tank on top. Down a large slide water was sent rushing down from that tower to generate realistic spray and waves into the tower prop. One of those waves washed one of the actors over board, who injured himself during filming this scene (not as bad as depicted, but still, a real injury). The other actors on the conning tower were so deeply into their roles that one actually screamed 'man overboard'. Wolfgang Petersen, the director, kept that unscripted moment, and adjusted the future script a bit around that incident. /edit The British ASIICS ultra-sound was a very new invention and addition to British destroyers. It meant that subs lost 90% of their stealth capability when pinged actively by it. And those destroyers DID active pings because they knew that they were the hunters, and the subs were the prey. It caused terror among most sub crews because they knew they had only a tiny chance to survive a destroyer hunting them with ASIICS. That scene after the chief returned with the report of what had all been fixed when they had struck ground. Right after that, the captain / Kapitän-Lieutnant did some deep breathing. That was also not a scripted scene but a breathing technique of Jürgen Prochnow, the actor, to get himself into character. Due to some strange circumstance the camera had kept rolling. Again, Petersen decided to keep those additional few seconds of deep breathing because he thought it fit that situation perfectly. For me, that is one of the most impressive scenes of this movie.
@kimleechristensen2679
@kimleechristensen2679 Год назад
Uhmm... its called ASDIC, and it was not entirely new piece of equipement at the beginning of WW2 as it was an invention created at the end of WW1, out of need to combat U-boats, due to the losses of ships suffered to them during WW1. ASDIC as we now know as Sonar was developed and refined during the interwar period so when WW2 came about British destroyers had it as standard equipment. Despite it being quite advanced for its time it did still had its drawbacks. It couldn't detect a submarine on the surface, due to the noise generated at the surface. It was also set in a fixed downward sloped angle, meaning it could no turn the direction of the sonar beam in a more steep downward angle i.e look straight down, so when the Destroyer got into a certain distance of a submerged U-boat the beam would pass over the submarine and thereby loose contact. So the deeper the U-boat was, the longer the distance of the contact loss would be, this could buy time for the U-boat to make an evasive manoeuvre and get out of the way, so the Destroyer would have to sprint in on the final leg of its attack run. Further more depending on the condition of the ocean, such as different thermal temperature or salt layers etc, sonar beams or pings, could get deflected by it, meaning a submarine could go undetected by hiding between layers, while the sonar beam pulse could get trapped between two other layers. The British ofcourse developed tactics that could mitigate some of the deficiencies of the ASDIC. Such as having destroyers working in pairs or groups, while one destroyer maintained contact with the submerged U-boat from a favourable distance, it would direct another destroyer in on the position of the U-boat, the other destroyer would sometimes creep up on the U-boat so when the U-boat detected the threat, the destroyer was so much on top of it, that the time for evasive manoeuvres was very limited. That's why in the many convoy battles during WW2 you had these deadly cat and mouse duals between u-boats and the opposing convoy escorts. Where the hunter could be turned into hunted from one moment to another. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Asdic_systems
@1514max
@1514max 3 года назад
You can recreate Das Boot by changing the bulb in your bathroom to a red one, then try and stop the water coming out of your shower head with your hands.
@KrillLiberator
@KrillLiberator 3 года назад
I once broke a shepherd's crook outlet on a hose linked to a pump in an 1100 litre tank. First thing I did, as it stood upright, waving about and fountaining, was try and stop it with my hands! Humans are basic.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 года назад
Jurgen Prochnow: "For the topside scenes, they shot tons of water at us. ... _Cold_ water."
@onylra6265
@onylra6265 3 года назад
But - also have some kind of trigger below you that if too much water hits the floor it drops a truck on you.
@karolmetal4256
@karolmetal4256 3 года назад
hehe
@donlebo6824
@donlebo6824 2 года назад
HA HA! Good fun!. Years ago, I worked graveyard, cleaning restaurants, and when I was stacking boxes for the trash, I threw one and accidentally hit a water pipe (plastic, of course!) all that water, ugh! I was there for an additional 4 hrs, after a 12 hour shift! Didn't have the red light though! HA HA!
@C0mmander
@C0mmander 3 года назад
Downfall is another German WW2 movie that you should consider watching 👍
@MyUrbanExplorationOnline
@MyUrbanExplorationOnline 3 года назад
Oh yeah, I am going to make the same comment. Downfall for me is up there in the terms of "War" movie. Acting, set's, makeup, everything is on point with Downfall.
@mappes1
@mappes1 3 года назад
Downfall is also great. The only thing to criticize in my opinion is that they turned some nazi butchers in nice honorable men to contrast them to the core-party-leaders. But that is kinda a minor thing compared to the fact they captured this apocalyptic crazy last days
@owN-77
@owN-77 3 года назад
+1
@Nexun8
@Nexun8 3 года назад
I was about to comment this as well - +1! :)
@rainerknuth
@rainerknuth 3 года назад
Stalingrad (year 1993)?
@mikehoncho1005
@mikehoncho1005 2 года назад
I watch this movie at least once a year to remind me that you don't need CGI and 150 million dollars to make a masterpiece. This is the best and most accurate ww2 movie ever made, I've read a lot about the battle in the Atlantic and Uboats in particular and all the little details in this movie such as the night surface attack, the food hanging, the operating of pumps and valves, the water gushing into the control room hatch. This movie is just perfect.
@maltehenryk1409
@maltehenryk1409 Год назад
It was a very big budget movie at the time though.
@Killian.Hardegen
@Killian.Hardegen 10 месяцев назад
@@maltehenryk1409 This was the most expensive German TV Production, that was ever made by the time, costing 32 mill. DM (Deutsche Mark), which would be roughly 35 mill € today. Still - no comparison to generic and soulless 150 mill $ crap that is pumped out from certain studios today. I mean just look at all the comments from people coming from every corner of the planet, all brought together by the universial truth of the series that war is cruel and random and sensless. On top of that, transported by protagonists that belonged to the side that started all this shit. Best german production by a 100 miles, best sub war movie ever made, timeless...
@Whataboutit
@Whataboutit 3 года назад
As a German myself I do like the movie for two reasons. On one side it shows that many Germans weren't Nazis. They just followed orders from a crazy Dictator. Soldiers not abandoning duty. A good example is the scene, where the LI and the photographer are supposed to leave the Boot before the suicide order. You said it correctly. Who would deny such a request? A crazy man would. And on the other side the stupidity and meaninglessness of war. Fighting, surviving every catastrophe that's put into their path and in the end, still dying from the plane attack they couldn't possibly have prevented. A very raw and in-your-face movie missing all that glorifying "hero" aspect most war movies do have a lot of.
@ingobordewick6480
@ingobordewick6480 2 года назад
My Grandfather who fought in both WW1 and 2 said, and I can see him saying it: "There are no heros in war. Just survivors." And when you think about it, he is right. Most of the "heroic" doings in a war are driven by the pure instinct to survive and protect your brothers.
@jackphillips1061
@jackphillips1061 2 года назад
Oh hey, Felix!
@richard21109
@richard21109 2 года назад
My grandfather served in the british merchant navy in ww2 and had nothing but respect for the u boat men.
@stormhawk3319
@stormhawk3319 2 года назад
I’m English but completely sympathised with the German U-Boaters here. Not Nazis at all, just doing their jobs as soldiers.
@bracinggreen3785
@bracinggreen3785 2 года назад
@@richard21109 Someone told me a long time ago: 'God asked the stones, if they want to go in an U-Boot' - 'They told him 'we are not hard enough''.
@thetechsite9619
@thetechsite9619 3 года назад
The actors in this are great. Almost everyone of them was a prominent German actor, or became one because of this film. Most of them influenced German TV and Film through the 80s and 90s. This is one of the very few really great German films. Herbert Grönemeyer, who plays the guy coming on board as a war correspondent is one of the most prominent German singers. And still active too: Latest album came out in 2018. Little bit of movie trivia: The full-size submarine mockup for exterior shots was re-used in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
@matnichol
@matnichol 3 года назад
True. Uwe Ochsenknecht, Jan Fedder, Heinz Hoenig, Grönemeyer and of course Jürgen Prochnow who went on to star in Beverly Hills Cop 2, The English Patient & Air Force One.
@captainahab1533
@captainahab1533 3 года назад
Not re-used, actually borrowed during the shoot
@IronIck45
@IronIck45 2 года назад
@@matnichol And what about the "bad guys" on film and a little in real life II Wo Semmelrogge (the funny character), has often little problems with the law, but is a great guy, his brother was the "bibelforscher from Kötzschenbroda, Ralf Richter, Claude Oliver Rudolph, for english, and other languages speakers, maybe intresting to know, is all of the crew, speak diffrent dialect of german, like Johan is a bavarian, others are Hamburger, Berliner, or from Saxonia, or Hessen. That makes it authentic too. I show that film colleagues from Russia (Deutsch-Russen) and they were impressed too.
@davidw.2791
@davidw.2791 2 года назад
The submarine captain may be recognizable as Count Leto in the 1984 Dune film.
@brianperry
@brianperry 3 года назад
I visited a WW2 submarine [British] in the early fifties at Chatham. I still remember how cramped it was. No concessions to comfort whatever..It was what it was, a killing machine. Watching 'Das Boot' years later reminded me of that day out, a conducted tour of the 'Boat' by a navy rating. Das Boot is without doubt the most realistic submarine film ever made....It should be shown in schools to remind children that War isn't a video game...
@SidneyKenson
@SidneyKenson Год назад
When it comes to that I'm quite happy i went on holidays with my family back in 1999 to the Baltic Sea, at the town of Laboe U-995, an exact same Type VII C like presented in that movie is displayed as walkable memorial. It was impressive to see that 70m long steel tube from the outside, and when you got into it, it immediately snapped you into that claustrophobic tightness of a WW2 German sub, and you got the feel of how the crew must have felt when they left harbor to go on a mission. Specially having seen the movie beforehand helped me to actually realize what I saw there, and it felt so surreal to actually think about it. 58 years earlier and I could have been one of the beardless kids waving good-bye to La Rochelle and riding out onto the Atlantic. And indeed, war isn't a video game. No random medi packs lying around, no ammo just placed somewhere, and most of all, no save-points where you can reload if your mission fails, no respawn if you get killed.
@broetchenahoi6524
@broetchenahoi6524 3 года назад
Das Boot is one of the best and most famous German anti-war movies of all time, portraying the brutality and futility of war, the fear and stress and pain. Plus, the main theme of the sound track is just epic.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 года назад
There was no futility in fighting the insane and domineering regimes of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan. It had to be done.
@broetchenahoi6524
@broetchenahoi6524 3 года назад
@@RideAcrossTheRiver , with "futility" I meant the characters' struggle to survive in the madness of war - just to die after all, in the end. It goes without saying that the Nazis had to be fought and brought down.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 года назад
@@broetchenahoi6524 The madness of the _Nazi Germany_ war, yes. In the end, it was the Germans, Japanese, and Italians who suffered under their own madness. The Allies saw and dealt with insane things; the Axis _perpetrated_ that madness. Then came Cold War, a new kind of madness ...
@broetchenahoi6524
@broetchenahoi6524 3 года назад
@@RideAcrossTheRiver , agreed! Just like the madness of U.S. wars perpetrated against Vietnam, in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. War is madness. We need peace
@Signofevil_Smile4theCam
@Signofevil_Smile4theCam 3 года назад
Mind-a-like! Not many 'war' movies out there that work that well. Sheer terror and psyche, no heroes, no mayhem, no bloodshed, just the sheer terror of war: Boredom, tension, short moments of horror. Das Boot, Stalingrad, Die Brücke. Interestingly all coming from Germany, all brutal in the way of how the real horror of war is displayed.
@tomingram621
@tomingram621 3 года назад
I watched this when it was first shown on British TV in the early 80s, as a 6 (?) part weekly series. I'd never seen anything like it, before or since. So atmospheric, especially in German with sub-titles, you were in there with them, experiencing the alternate panic and elation. My favorite movie of all time.
@SuperUltimateLP
@SuperUltimateLP 3 года назад
Originally it was a mini series, and later got shortened to a movie that's still quite long.
@Nodux359
@Nodux359 2 года назад
Yes, a six-parter.
@davefb
@davefb 2 года назад
As someone who saw the bbc2 miniseries first. I was surprised, nope, the film was first (1981!) (but yeah, the 300min version.. best version) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot
@unpaintedleadsyndrome
@unpaintedleadsyndrome 2 года назад
saw that on the Beeb too, so confusing... do I read the subtitles or follow it in German?
@tomingram621
@tomingram621 2 года назад
@@unpaintedleadsyndrome If your German is excellent, switch off the subtitles. I found it best to just listen to the language and follow as best I could, but let the brain do it's own thing and almost sub-consciously read the subtitles... By episode 2 you won't even be aware that you're reading them :)
@Pawniac
@Pawniac 3 года назад
27:32 We have to accept the fact that while Germany was ruled by the Nazis, not everyone in the army, air-force and navy followed their ideals. It was very common for U-Boots to help survivors of ships they had sunk, by giving them food, water, medical care and directions to the nearest port or land mass. This was the case with the infamous "Laconia incident"; Somewhere off the coast of western Africa, midway between Liberia and Ascension Island, U-156 spotted the troopship RMS Laconia. As with all armed merchant and troop ships, U-Boots had orders to attack without warning, and since the Laconia fell under that category, U-156 conducted a torpedo attack on her. However, unbeknownst to U-156's commanding officer, Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein, the Laconia was transporting some 1600 Italian POWs. While there were enough lifeboats for all her crew, including all the POWs, the Laconia's heavy listing, due to damage from torpedoes, prevented half of her lifeboats from being launched. Realizing that most of the survivors were POWs and civilians, Hartenstein ordered immediate rescue, while raising the Red Cross flag. An hour later, with the Laconia finally sinking completely, Hartenstein sent a coded message to BdU (Befehlshaber der U-Boote, German U-Boot command) saying "Sunk by Hartenstein, British Laconia, Qu FF7721, 310 deg. Unfortunately with 1500 Italian POWs; 90 fished out of the water so far. Requesting orders." The head of submarine operations at the time, Admiral Karl Donitz, ordered all of the submarines from the Wolfpack "Eisbar", which were tasked with attacking Cape Town, to immediately divert to the scene and help with rescue efforts. Donitz informed Berlin of the situation, making Hitler furious, who demanded the rescue be cancelled. Donitz was ordered by Admiral Erich Raeder to cancel the re-tasking of Wolfpack Eisbar, which also included U-156, and to send them back towards Cape Town, as per their original orders. The Italian submarine "Comandante Cappellini" was to rendezvous with U-156 and pickup any survivors, before proceeding to where the Laconia had been sunk and rescuing any Italians they found. The Vichy French were also contacted by Raeder, who dispatched 2 sloops and the 7600 ton cruiser, "Gloire", from Dakar. Donitz then disengaged the Eisbar U-Boots, ordering them "All boats, including Hartenstein, only take as many men into the boat as will allow it to be fully ready for action when submerged." U-156 had some 200 survivors on and below deck, including 5 women and 200 more in 4 lifeboats that she was towing. U-156 also sent a message, in open frequency and not in code, reporting her position; "If any ship will assist the shipwrecked Laconia crew I will not attack her, provided I am not being attacked by ship or air force. I picked up 193 men. 4°-53" South, 11°-26" West. - German submarine." The British forces in Freetown intercepted the message, but believed it to be a trap and didn't credit it. Two days later, on the 15th of September, the Americans got the message that the Laconia had been sunk and that the British merchant ship "Empire Haven" was routed to pick up survivors. However, this message loosely implied that the Laconia had been sunk on the 15th, not the 13th which it originally had been sunk, and had no mention of German submarines conducting rescue operations under cease-fire, nor the fact that French neutral ships were also en-route to the scene. U-156 remained on the surface for 2 and a half days, and on the 15th, she was joined by U-506. A few hours later, U-507 along with Cappellini joined them as well. The four submarines, towing multiple lifeboats, had set a course for the African coast, where they'd meet with the Vichy French ships. During the night of the 15th, the submarines became separated, and on the morning of the 16th, U-156 was spotted by an American B-24 Liberator bomber. Hartenstein, using Morse code, contacted the plane in English and requested assistance. A rescued British officer also messaged the plane "RAF officer speaking from German submarine, Laconia survivors on board, soldiers, civilians, women, children.", however, Lt. James Harden of the US Army Air Force, made no efforts to respond and turned away, while notifying his base at Ascension. The senior officer on site, who was unware of the Red Cross flag being flown by U-156 and the rescue operation, ordered Harden to "[Sic] sink the sub." The officer later claimed that he believed that the rules of war, at the time, did not permit a combat ship to fly the Red Cross flag, and was afraid U-156 would discover the secret base on Ascension and raid the depots, cutting off critical reinforcements and much needed fuel for the Allied offensive in Egypt. Harden's B-24 flew back to the scene, and an hour later, began attacking U-156 with bombs and depth charges. According to Harden, his B-24 made 4 attack runs but failed to release bombs or depth charges on 3 of them. On the final run, he dropped 2 bombs, which missed U-156, and sadly, landed between 2 lifeboats, killing most of the occupants. Hartenstein then ordered the remaining lifeboats be cast adrift and to slowly submerge, instead of crash-diving, in order to give the survivors who were still on deck the necessary time to jump into the water and escape. Unaware of the events, U-506, U-507 and the Cappellini, continued picking up survivors until the next morning, when the commander of the Cappellini discovered that they were in fact picking up survivors cast adrift from U-156. This is considered to be the first of the war crimes committed by Allied Forces, as under the conventions of war at sea; ships, including submarines, engaged in rescue operations are held to be immune from attacks. Five B-25 Mitchell bombers were also dispatched to hunt for submarines in the area, which spotted some of Laconia's lifeboats on the 17th. Hardin's B-24 also spotted U-506, which had 151 survivors onboard, including 9 women and children, and began his second attack. Making two attack runs, with the first one failing to release bombs, U-506 crash-dived fast enough for the second run to no damage to the boat or the survivors. The incident had major consequences; Until that point in the war, it was very common for U-Boots to assist survivors. The sight of a U-Boot literally picking up survivors onto her deck was very rare, as space inside the boat was already cramped and limited. Following the incidents on the 17th, Admiral Karl Donitz issued the "Laconia order" which forbade U-Boot crews from helping survivors. Their orders were to leave the survivors to their fate in the waters. However, despite the enforcing of the order, U-Boot crews often disregarded it and continued providing help to survivors. In total, out of the Laconia's original complement of 2732 souls, only 1113 survived. Of the 1619 souls lost, 1420 were Italian POWs.
@6666Imperator
@6666Imperator 2 года назад
thank you for this comment. I didn't know about it but its important that these things get also shown and communicated. That not all germans were bad and that war itself is not a thing of black and white.
@dialupmodem6583
@dialupmodem6583 2 года назад
Wow this was very enlightening. Thanks for commenting
@bracinggreen3785
@bracinggreen3785 2 года назад
@@6666Imperator I knew it. And the Laconia Affaire saved Dönitz head at the Nürnberger Prozesse...
@40hup
@40hup 6 месяцев назад
It was not happening after the laconia incident any more. This was war, and U-Boats were hunters and destroyers - as intended of the Nazi Regime. No pardon asked, none given. Rescue in WW II was somewhat shady, as often even hit and straggling ships in convoys were left to their destiny by their own escorts, also merchant marine sailors were often not saved from being in the water and in life rafts, as the convoys had to sail on steadily for safety-reasons. Crews of abandoned U-Boats were often shot at with machine guns in the water, only few were rescued aboard allied military ships. U-Boats dived and provided not rescue at all after their attacks after the laconia incident (those were the orders from the BdU and they were followed).
@headhunter1945
@headhunter1945 3 месяца назад
The Allies wanted to charge the Nazis for this at Nuremberg, but then it turned out to be proven the Allies behaved in the exact same manner in the Pacific. Curiously enough they chose to ignore war crimes they had committed themselves.
@scottsmith6631
@scottsmith6631 6 месяцев назад
My Brother was a LT. on a US nuclear sub in the 80's and he says this is the best submarine film ever made.
@osychenko
@osychenko 2 месяца назад
Granted, a nuclear sub in the 80's is a 5 star hotel compared to this.
@Robalogot
@Robalogot 3 года назад
This movie captures boredom so well, without ever being boring. And yes the guy listening for ships through the hydrophones is the only person doing that job. The thing is that those only work when the ship is submerged, so the captain ordered the boat to dive every hour or two hours to listen. You could hear single ships about 20 km away and convoys 100km. So you had a bit of time. The depth charges of submarines could go on for many many hours and aside from damaging the ship, it was meant to break the crew and make them surface so they could finish them off.
@wwoods66
@wwoods66 3 года назад
They work as long as the hydrophone head is underwater. I mean, they work for destroyers. But they do work a lot better if you don't have the noise of waves against the sub's hull or conning tower.
@MrEmiosk
@MrEmiosk 3 года назад
@@wwoods66 against the hull... waves and water makes hella lot of sound on the surface just on its own. On the surface Hydrophones are near useless unless the keel reaches down low, very low, practically at the 40-50 metre depth which is not coincidentally the standard calm water operating depth of ww2 german subs.
@tutnixx
@tutnixx 3 года назад
nope, there was 2 guys aboard for this job. when the boat submerged, they worked as a hydrophone operator, otherwise as radio operator.
@louisavondart9178
@louisavondart9178 3 года назад
It depends on where the hydrophones are located. This Uboot is a type 7b and at that stage of the war the hydrophone was the GHG type of 24 different sensors mounted around the hull which routed signals to a central switch box that converted them to sound that could be interpreted by the operator. They could detect sounds while on the surface. Later models were directional sensors that had better results when submerged but were very vulnerable to damage from depth charge attacks. yes, depth charge attacks could go on for hours if they had enough escort ships doing them but the main effort was directed to keeping the Uboot submerged so it could not chase a convoy and re-attack. The Uboot would only surface if it was flooding or running out of air because they could expect no mercy from the waiting gun crews on the ships. Most Uboots ( 52% ) were sunk by aircraft attacks, not depth charges.
@wolf310ii
@wolf310ii 3 года назад
@@louisavondart9178 The GHG had the sensors mounted in the bow around the depth planes, not all around the hull. In WW2 768 U-boats got sunk, only 250 by aircrafts, far away from 52%, even if you count the 43 U-boats sunk by air raids in harbours and the 37 U-boats sunk by aircrafts and ships in cooperation, its still less than 50%
@AngryKefir
@AngryKefir 3 года назад
As a German, this is weird. I appreciate you went for the original and not the dubbed version.
@Jordan-Ramses
@Jordan-Ramses 3 года назад
Dubbed versions are looked down on by serious movie fans in America. But that is wrong too. Sometimes the dubbed are superior. Not usually but sometimes. The subtitle version is definitely better here.
@Johnny_Socko
@Johnny_Socko 3 года назад
While I normally prefer subtitles, I must say that this film had THE BEST English dub I've ever seen. Most of the actors dubbed themselves, and the syncing was incredibly well done. (Maybe it helps that English and German are grammatically similar.)
@HDreamer
@HDreamer 3 года назад
@@Johnny_Socko The flaw of the dub is, the language gets too clean at times. Too nice.
@tomhirons7475
@tomhirons7475 3 года назад
As a German like me you should know your History.
@AngryKefir
@AngryKefir 3 года назад
@@tomhirons7475 nope, has nothing to do with knowing history.
@shainewhite2781
@shainewhite2781 3 года назад
The Director's Cut is 209 minutes. The original cut was 150 minutes. The Miniseries is 300 Minutes. The Final Cut is 290 minutes.
@karlmortoniv2951
@karlmortoniv2951 3 года назад
Oh, there was a final cut? That got by me somehow. When did that happen?
@mdellan2001
@mdellan2001 3 года назад
longer is better
@jimmorrish6771
@jimmorrish6771 3 года назад
@@mdellan2001 defo
@sci-fihorizons2867
@sci-fihorizons2867 3 года назад
The Blade Runner of war movies...
@agenttheater5
@agenttheater5 3 года назад
I have the director's cut, I tell everyone to watch it instead of the 150 minute one but I usually also mention the miniseries which I haven't seen.
@haraldschuster3067
@haraldschuster3067 3 года назад
Goggles are to "preserve" night vision. Inside the sub it's brighter than outside at night. Every second the periscope is up is a second you can be detected. You don't want to wait until your eyes have adjusted to the dark light outside. Hence the goggles to pre-adjust to the outside low light. Scope up, fast look around, scope down.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 года назад
Why pirates wore eye patches. Dark eye for the prey ship's below decks in daytime when boarding her; reverse for night battle.
@DerOberfeldwebel
@DerOberfeldwebel 2 года назад
Same with the red light. red light doesn't kill your night vision like bright lights do.
@nettrawler1202
@nettrawler1202 3 года назад
The scene where the U-Boot has to reverse away from the convoy survivors looks like a reference to the Laconia incident. U-156 sank a British troop carrier and to help with the rescue effort broadcast her position on Allied channels before being joined by other U-boots to pick up survivors. U-156 began to tow the Laconia life boat and accommodate survivors on the fore deck of the now surfaced sub. When the American bombers reported U-156's position along with Laconia survivors they were given the order to attack and after bombing and strafing runs U-156 had to cast the survivors into the sea and dive to avoid destruction. Another U-boot attempting to rescue survivors was also attacked by the American bomber. This lead to all U-boot commanders being ordered not to pick up survivors.
@alanstevens1296
@alanstevens1296 3 года назад
Very un-Hollywood like. They would have figured some way to pick up the survivors. But that would be very unrealistic for WW II.
@PS-iq9fb
@PS-iq9fb 3 года назад
@@alanstevens1296 surprise surprise.... Hollywood =/= reality
@skdKitsune
@skdKitsune 3 года назад
@@alanstevens1296 Hollywood would have the germans massacre the survivors, who are we kidding here lol
@TheChumbaba
@TheChumbaba 3 года назад
the fact is that before the film was made, some american hollywoood directors were asked to make the film. they all wanted to portray the crew as bloodthirsty nazis. Ultimately, the decision was made in favor of Wolfgang petersen, who was then still unknown. As we know today, the best decision.
@alanstevens1296
@alanstevens1296 3 года назад
@@TheChumbaba The movie was produced by the Bavarian Film Works. Hollywood had nothing to do with it.
@dialecticalmonist3405
@dialecticalmonist3405 3 года назад
When she was a child, my mother would ask her uncle what it was like being in a U-boat. He wouldn't answer her, but she was persistent, and he finally answered and told her, "Go into the basement, sit facing the corner and turn the lights off. That is what it is like."
@thetechsite9619
@thetechsite9619 3 года назад
"...and stay there for two months."
@MrBendylaw
@MrBendylaw 3 года назад
My grandfather wouldn't talk about the Pacific, unless he was pretty drunk; in which case you realized how bad it was. My grandmother chewed me out, in tears, once for asking him about his service, when I was pretty young. Those experiences have contributed to my foggy notions of 'glory' and 'patriotism'.
@hairlokk8672
@hairlokk8672 3 года назад
@@MrBendylaw Ye, my grandfather wasnt actually in the war since sweden kept out. But he did his obligatory military service during the war on the border to norway. He never spoke to us about it. My mother said that it had been bad psychological for them and pretty much said it scarred them for life. I dont know what actually happened there, history books doesnt really tell us anything, but I have my guesses.
@hnorrstrom
@hnorrstrom 3 года назад
@@hairlokk8672 My granddad was up in the north of sweden also guarding the border. One time he meet a german soldier up close, they was both lifting their guns and pointing to each other over the border. Then slowly both lowered the guns and turned around and walked away. Only thing I ever heard him say about the war.
@rickrussell8382
@rickrussell8382 3 года назад
@@MrBendylaw In Canada it was considered bad form to ask a veteran about the war. Even if they said something in conversation. You just listened. I asked a guy at my uncles place about the war, when I around 9 yrs. My dad pulled me out of the room and I got yelled at. My son is a veteran. I don`t ask him about Afghanistan. They tell you what they feel like at the time. Just listen.
@jimtatro6550
@jimtatro6550 3 года назад
I remember seeing this at the theater when I was a kid with my dad, and for the first time in a war film I found myself caring about the “enemy.” It was then that I realized that wars may be started and ended by governments, but it is human beings doing the fighting and dying. Great movie, great reaction.👍
@baronsengir187
@baronsengir187 3 года назад
It is important i think that there are movies out there that do not sugarcoat war.
@KRAFTWERK2K6
@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад
War is..... when old people send young people to kill each other.
@davidw.2791
@davidw.2791 2 года назад
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 And then old people swoop in to Make Peace, as the prince played by Alec Guinness in Lawrence of Arabia says.
@44Tloc
@44Tloc 2 года назад
As german (Austrian) to watch this movie is much more intense,because of language and stuff,n my opinion it is one of the best movies ever made in history,i saw it probably 30 times or more...it was our people dying for nothing and almost all of them was only soldiers,not nazis...
@jean-paulaudette9246
@jean-paulaudette9246 3 года назад
12:37 That's condensed, sweetened milk. You can find it in the grocery store, in the baking section. Back then, it was used as a source of protein & fat that could be stored (canned) for long-term voyages. The reason you saw them eating so well when they frist started out was that the food would quickly spoil, so they got to (had to) feast on it pretty quickly.
@Yggdrasil42
@Yggdrasil42 3 года назад
Condensed milk is great in cold-brew coffee by the way.
@kratzikatz1
@kratzikatz1 3 года назад
The molded bread was called rabbits😉😊
@stevenhenry9605
@stevenhenry9605 3 года назад
"Stalingrad" (the 1993 one) and "Downfall" are both excellent (and depressing as hell) movies about WWII from the German perspective.
@JustPlayTheGame76
@JustPlayTheGame76 3 года назад
Wasnt "Stalingrad" the one about the Russian sniper or is that another movie?
@thetechsite9619
@thetechsite9619 3 года назад
@@JustPlayTheGame76 ..you're thinking of Enemy at the Gates.
@JustPlayTheGame76
@JustPlayTheGame76 3 года назад
@@thetechsite9619 YES! Thats right. Thank you.
@the_engineer2345
@the_engineer2345 3 года назад
Very famous in germany is "Die Bruecke" or the bridge. Almoust every school kid has to watch it in history class. Made in the 1950s, it show a group of teenage students who had to defend a small bridge agains US troops in the very last days of WW2.
@brostenen
@brostenen 3 года назад
Funny that it is not known as the original title. Here in Denmark, it is known by the name "Der untergang". Downfall is not actually the correct term. But then again, you can not call it The Apocalypse eighter. It is more about the way everything falls to pieces, than it is about personal story.
@ElysiumNZ
@ElysiumNZ 7 месяцев назад
Interesting fact: The entire interior of the U-Boat used in the film was built precisely to exact specs, even the bolts used were accurate to those used back then. The attention to detail was so insane that the actors were made to stay away from the sun for a year to create the pale and tired look.
@tonyharmon8512
@tonyharmon8512 3 года назад
The young man's French girlfriend hid her engagement and pregnancy because the French resistance would strike at collaboraters and girlfriends were by definition collaborating with the enemy. He kept it secret as well because he would become a special target as well. They were teens thrown togeather during the war but had to fear the reaction to them coming to love each other.
@KRAFTWERK2K6
@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 года назад
Yea… Sadly this side-story arch is not even really touched in the Theatrical cut nor the Directors Cut. Only in the TV cut it's being actually dealt with properly. It is one of the parts that always makes me tear up… and shows that love is stronger than fighting. Even between "enemies" during war times.
@berndbrakemeier1418
@berndbrakemeier1418 3 года назад
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Ganz genau!
@StimParavane
@StimParavane 3 года назад
Ladies love the bad boys. Perhaps she should choose someone from her own side?
@maltehenryk1409
@maltehenryk1409 3 года назад
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 There isn't much more in the TV version anyway. Just a clumsy looking cuddle scene between the two and and a poorly added cut of her waving him when they set out. It was fine not to include it.
@stephenclarke2206
@stephenclarke2206 3 года назад
I read recently that millions of French men were held as POW's in Germany for the duration of the war & many others got sent there to work in factories so no wonder that some girls hooked up with German soldiers.
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