Das Boot: Situation Report 

Yes agreed 100% this and “the downfall” are my favourite WW2 films ever. It’s just the gritty atmosphere in each film that make them so great 🙏🏼🙌🏼

They had the real captain of the U96 on the set. As well as the author. And they replicated the interior of an actual u-boat...

Too bad the didn't use that attention to detail when executing their strategy in WW2...then they would've remembered a two front war is stupid.

@@davidparadis490 I hear you on that.

@@davidparadis490 Ja leider hörte Hitler nicht auf seine Generale.

Well said

Good statement. Ironically though, as bad as war is- I've read many quotes from soldiers saying WW2 was a great experience. Not the slaughter but the comeraderie and unity

Well said, we need wars now

In Greek mythology, hell is fire. I know the water is hell.

No noooo, you are generalizing "specifics". You for some reason insist Werner is trying to be a badass. You insist it is HE. HE is a writer. HE has a personal stake in his writing that is HIS presentation that hopefully resonates with the idealogue. With the twit at home who argues war politics at the cafe more so, less so the beer hall. If anything, maybe the new intellectual type youth also resonate with it. The groups of people who know more the mystique and sheer daring of it all, but just like the SS officers manual NUMBER 1 was reading to another younger crew member, "...but sheer daring is not enough". I'm not saying in relation, I'm saying in reference because that's exactly what Werner is doing. Can't you see how the movie goes out of its way to make it obvious he's an awkward michelang and he isn't fooling or inspiring the true nuts and bolts of the actual war, the beer hall types more so than the cafe types where neither side really knows actual war, but the beer hall types more than likely form function into the role better ultimately because they are more apt to resonate with the roaring drunk badass where the cafe types more so resonate with the inner workings of the role of war, a romanticism.... Why else does he mention, no woman to walk by? .... because that's the peak or razors edge or THE HORROR or whatever one wants to call the ultimate moment a soldier dares to face and IF it actually does come because not everybody in war can be a sergeant York and not because of bottle or nerve but because of opportunity. You have some that dream just like Werner, go to war and not get their chance. So hes got that part right and admits I truly got what I wanted and now it's HIM and not others he typically has a mindset for because he's a awkward meschling and The crew members who are the nut and bolt type of course automatically don't like the guy. They see right through him. Because they are brutish. They also generally make the most noise. Werner does not, because he is always alone That's why the movie depicts him more than once where nobody else is about looking at others lives through pictures where the one crew member seen where the one brute just snatches a picture of some girl that another crew member was probably trying to speak for her in terms of boosting her social class status where the brute and of course speaking for most of the guys I'm sure grabs that picture and then tells his real truth because if a man has to pump up a particular woman's status in abstentia, there's something wrong typically where generally you got a loser trying to sell the idea his woman is waiting for him when the reality is she's blowing everybody in the fleet. Werner is not a loser, he's not a coward, he's not a lot of things he himself and others think about him... He just doesn't understand and therefore doesn't get it and makes up for it by taking on a entire different persona and that's what makes him rather despised and dismissed or for the lack of a better word people and especially women, they resent a phoney. Women especially can see right through it in general but it doesn't mean that they are generally right because they have a sense, it's rather the opposite where the more passive a phony is in reality because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that especially with Werner, women prove their stupidity by certainly gravitating towards that phony who makes a lot of noise who I will admit in general is at least taking on the role of his own self despite the manifestation of those moments of more bark than bite but at least the two components work hand in hand... I mean form function because in the nitty gritty moments of war like let's say trench warfare where it's hand to hand, sure you can have the cold calculating cunning efficient Ninja killer doing his thing assessing every moment and it's emotional tolls and rationalizing it all within a millionth of a second constantly but that's artificial, a trained machine, a artist warrior, That's something you make movies more so about not books. The Big mouth roaring drunk is going to be the more form function that might cry home to their mama more so on average than most but also gets over a quick or dies and therefore the Viking big mouth drunk berserker who pulls the bloodlust from within that you can see in his eyes because he's killing you You're not killing him and that is his big moment to dare face ferocious truth. The captain especially looks at Werner for that one moment because obviously he doesn't think much of Werner in general but not because he's too busy, he has definitely filed him away somewhere in that mental Rolodex that ultimately Werner is a nobody and that's why he's the captain because he's not going to ever contemplate further than that except for the role he plays on the ship because he's not invisible and he does exist so it's probably more so a thing of the only concern really is he never gets in the way of anything and I think the captain doesn't think twice about that either because it's safe to say Werner is phoney, but polite.... old mother hen.... If you notice he wasn't the one who had crabs. Even the Hitler youth leader had crabs. You can't get more pathetic than somebody who doesn't even fit the character of somebody uncomfortable in their own skin, they simply steal everybody else's personality rolled up into one desperately concerned about pleasing everyone not knowing at the same time he's so transparent and phony and the impossibility of it all where in all reality, there's nothing wrong with a guy if anything he's right up there with the captain and that's what this scene is all about and that is why the captain looks at a realization moment for both and the captain sees it and figures it doesn't matter that Werner does not, he'll figure it out eventually or simply will not because the captain in all reality is also too busy, and as a rule of thumb he doesn't contemplate any further in such matters because he's too busy and he's not here to babysit people or to fix or pump up or diminish self esteem.... He's a rock who leads and if you are here, then you are here to help and if you're not then of course as the captain if you don't have a reason why you're here....he was going to shoot the engineer. He doesn't care what your problems are if you're a brute or if you're a girl inside if you're terrified if you're raging pissed off, All he cares is that you perform your job or another words You're here to help ultimately ME or you are not, and not the other way around it can't be like that ever. Werner before anything else has to find himself. He's better than most people but has a long way to go and he's been so far down the road in life it might just be a waste of time he did it to himself and it's the captain only who truly is the badass and does not have the time or capacity or hardwiring to relate to anything else but ultimately being the badass. You are painting with two broad of a brush but at the same time focalizing it as if Werner means anything in reality, he doesn't. He doesn't know what the hell he's trying to be, he probably doesn't even know at the same time that he's trying to understand, because like I said there's nothing wrong with him and at his big moment doesn't realize he's better than most just like the captain, but of course way too externally aware where the captain is the opposite because you know he's internally aware and knows exactly who he is to everybody else and that's as far as it goes with him because he can't afford to wonder what they are thinking and so on. If you notice when it comes to that aspect all he's interested in is how everyone and everything reacts as a result with himself perhaps not internalizing it but he is the focal point. Perhaps he internalizes it like that but if not then he certainly knows it's his job to lead and everything else from there is him and experience from him and it doesn't matter we got it from because that's for the book writers to mystique about the captain couldn't care less about all that.

He's trying to hold his composior and fights hard to hold the tears back. In sure he was aware of not wasting the oxygen.

Chief of the Boat, not engineer. He's enlisted. Enlisted fix things, not officers. But otherwise, yes!

fancy words

This was actually Jürgen preparing for a scene and psyching himself into character. He didn’t know Petersen was going to leave it in the actual film.

@@DMoNCFL Yepp, because Petersen noticed how damn well it fit in there.

YES

Jawohl! ;)

Every kid going to enter naval service shold watch it as well.

We had to watch it as midshipmen in the Danish Navy in 2003.

He already passed away in 2000! Suffered from lung-cancer.

Jawohl! Amen

+NeonTiger 85 Well, it's best WWII movie i ever seen.

NeonTiger 85 it could be the best war movie ever

NeonTiger 85 I am agree with you.

NeonTiger 85..100%agree with you.

Read the book. Seriously. You will not regret it.

best movie ever i have the 4 hour version masterpiece watched it like 20 times really !

@@christinesmith7625 you should have a look at the TV Adaptation with more than 5 hours. It‘s worth every extra minute.

Chief Engineer, he has a small team of mechanic's working below him.

@@walboyfredo6025Exactly! They just fixed a bunch of severe damages on the bottom of the ocean with wooden beams, wedges and some meters of old wire. In this scene "the boat" is at a depth of 280 m which is triple of what the shipyard warranted.

​@@franktechmaniac7488And a hundred more than they could typicallyamage somewhat safely

Heinrich das Gespenst one of the Diesel NCO became LI leeding Ingenieur and was awarded the Ritterkreuz

@@mkoschier The Obermaschinist is the "2nd LI"

It's a very important scene. You are right about the intensity, it is borderline unbearable. There is something else too: There is a man admitting to himself the bankrupcy of his puerile dreams of heroism and war. Intoxicated as he says. Staring death in the face, finding out it has nothing to do with heroism or even dignity. And he, as a propaganda soldier, making pictures and writing stories was there to feed this lie to the next generation. Getting to grips with the big deceit that is war - at least he got the chance to. Most realized it only when they died, screaming for their mother, with their legs blown off or the bell wide open, in the cold of Russia, in the steppes of Afghanistan in the jungle of Vietnam. We have many movies about that. Very few hit the point so well.

krischan67 👍

Der Satz hätte eigentlich noch zu der Szene dazugehört.

Gut, dass der LI in Spanien an Bord geblieben ist.

@@jurgenwulf490 War doch eine weise Entscheidung vom BDU den LI nicht vom Boot zu lassen. 😊

And they shouldn't do.

@Jonah Whale 😅 🤣 😂 🤣

no one would dare!

@@speckgens They dared and they failed!

Ditto!!!

Well, no. This movie was so good, but it never got the chance to win the oscar. It is still the best anti-war-movie ever... if you see the movie on TV, it is nice. But if you EVER get the chance to see it in cinema, just DO it. I had seen the mini-serial in 1981, i had that movie on VHS, then on DVD. But then, some 15 years ago, i saw it on cinema-screen. BOOOOOM... another level of movie this is. Even more so as Lawrence of Arabia - on TV boring, really... but in Cinema.. Such movies are made for Cinema -forget all these blockbuster-popcorn-shit, you could see on your mobile phone. But such really great movies are done for Cinema. The follow up seasons are plain shit. There is only one Das Boot.

The book its kinda more nazi ish. The film director like more friendlier to worldwide

@@leminhhai6008 how so? I read it recently and didn't find much nazism in it, the captain was just less vocal about hating nazism

Cody Buchmann „the least Nazified“? They were one of the most „Nazified“ parts of German Military. In „ der ersten guten Zeit“, at the beginning of the war, the Crews were just normal soldiers, „der Alte“ is one of them, more seaman and sailor than political solider, but most of them died in the early days of war. In the movie, there is a scene in the beginning where Thomsen and „Der Alte“ discuss about that. Lt. Werner and the 2.WO are typical members of the second generation. Blinded by the reports in the cinemas and educated in heroic schools of HJ, they believed exactly in the way, Werner explained in the beginning of this scene, and they died in the war later on by the thousands, just because the BDU Karl Dönitz sacrificed 17-18 years old kids in a lost battle. There is a reason, Dönitz became successor of Hitler.

@@dikon0172 Bullshit of its best. The submariners were ALLWAYS volunteers. German soldiers died in the later stage of the war in every branch of service. And the sailors KNEW it... one mission was the average time at sea post 1943-april. 80% of all submariners got lost in WW2. By the way, other nations had also very high casulty rates... look for UK or USA...

@@dikon0172 Dönitz lost two sons who where uboat crewmen, lost at sea.

Watch The Cruel Sea; at the end, when they rescue German submariners, having forced their u-boot to the surface and sunk it the captain remarks to his No 1 "We've never actually met the enemy before." and the as the oil-coated survivors are dragged on deck and looked after by their new captors "they look an awful lot like us don't they".

Kriegsmarine*

See also das boot 1 & 2 from sky/ bavaria films. 1 is on dvd already with subtitles but you need international/ all region dvd player

Is the best film. Full stop.

Brained05 if you were watching a millennial film then yes, prepare to have your expectations subverted. You’d find out it was all a dream and you’re actually living in a utopia.

@@tseuren123 yeah Dallas etc.

Against the world

@@ilqar887 100% correct.

The world has always been cruel. And so is humanity. They fought for life.

This important one and a half sentence of the KaLeu is missing here at the end of the scene. "You just need good people. Good people..."

cabrio379 Groenemeyer ist ein reicher Schnösel der abgeschottet von den Alltagsproblemen der Leute in Deutschland im Villenviertel Berlin bzw. London lebt. Und dann Konzerte gegen rechts gibt und halb Deutschland denunziert. Ich wünsche ihm dass ihn mal ein paar Neubürger die ihn nicht kennen mal in Berlin ordentlich aufs Maul hauen. Dann merkt er vielleicht wie sich das echte Leben in Deutschland verändert hat.

@@schoppepetzer9267 Was wüsstest Du denn über das echte Leben? Alles, was Du kannst, ist rechte Hetze verbreiten. Das unter diesem Film zu tun, zeigt nur, dass Du in Deinem ganzen Leben rein gar nichts brauchbares gelernt hast. Alles, was Du kannst, ist andere dafür verantwortlich machen, dass Du ein Versager bist. Grönemeyer hat in seinem Leben schon mehr durchgemacht, als Dein verwöhnter Hintern jemals ertragen werden muss. Aber weil Du halt ein Sesselfurzer bist, neidest Du ihm die guten Seiten seines Lebens. Alltagsprobleme der Leute? Du weißt gar nicht, was ein "Problem" ist. Du lügst sie Dir lediglich zusammen, damit Du Ausreden für Deine Hetze hast. Denunzieren tut hier nur einer - schau mal in den Spiegel.

Ja wohl! Ve loss de Vor but ve vin de Piktscha !

Alles korrekt bis auf die deplazierte Überhöhung des Künstlers H.G.

@@ohauss Lass mich raten: Du bist filziger Staatsknetekassierer und "Aktivist" der der arbeitenden Bevölkerung mit seiner Selbstgerechtigkeit jeden Tag aufs Neue auf den Sack geht :) Was Du glaubst zu meinen was ich gelernt oder nicht gelernt habe interessiert mich einen Scheiss. Dass Du hier die "rächte" Karte spielst zeugt eher von Deiner myopischen Weltsicht. Geh und leg Dich wieder hin!

SterileNeutrino nice, it’s good to see some attention to detail. What did you make of the rest of the translation? I thought the action was first rate, and also the German characters were instantly relatable. I’m trying to learn German but it’s slow progress. I wouldn’t understand this conversational nuance at all.

​@@aliray1165 The translation is good but ... "Keine Hoffnung mehr?" might be better as "No hope anymore?" rather than "You think it's hopeless now?" (this adjust the vibes to "short phrases" mode). Also "grausam und gross" as "cruel and magnificient" rather than "ferocious and great" (update: even better: "gruesome and grand" and even "with cruelty and grandeur" at sites.google.com/site/schlachtdasmass/ which has a translation for the 5 lines used here). Technical nitpicking, the "E-Maschine" is the "electric motor" rather than "motors" (the Chief Engineer says nothing about the Diesel engine; maybe at this point his attitude is ... it will either work ... or not) and the "Hauptlenzpumpe" is the "main bilge pump" rather than the "ballast pump"). Yes, great movie, great acting, great sets, great atmosphere, no CGI. I saw it three times in a row, "director's cut" version .. I think at the "Uto-Kino" in Zürich. That was a lifetime ago though.

Also, "Situation report, Sir" does not even get close to the German original. The chief says, "Melde Herrn Kaleun gehorsamst:" which literally translates "Reporting most obediently to Herr Captain Lieutenant:" and gives some idea of the degree of respect and loyalty in the German navy even under most existential circumstances

Almost. This is the interior set. On Raiders, they used the exterior. 🤓

it's correct. spielberg borrowed the boat from bavaria film studios

Mir auch, jedes Mal

Unfortunately the LI, Klaus Wennemann, passed away by cancer in 2000.

😂

SEUFZ!

Seine musikalischen Erfolge sprechen da eine andere Sprache

Probably most of them yes is a along with the hunt for the red October is popular movie on submariners

Hölderlein ist der Autor

Das Gedicht ist von Rudolf G. Binding und heißt "Das Maß" Die Erde drängt sich zitternd an uns heran. Das Feld steht auf wie ein Mensch vom Lager. Saaten bewaffneter Männer sprießen aus unsichtbarem Samen in den Furchen zutag. Schauerlich groß blühn grünschwarze Kelche Erdstaub und giftige Gase allenthalben empor. Aufgeschreckt rasend springen Fontänen aus trockenem Grund. Auf Feuer gekreuzigt fahren Menschenleiber zum Himmel, zerstieben mit einer Grimasse, schwarze verkohlte Sterne: Erd und Gebein. Rauchterrassen wälzen sich über uns hin. In schweren Wettern rauscht Eisen nieder. Blitze tasten heran. Donner erwürgt uns. Heulender Abgrund bäumt sich herauf allüberall und die Sonne schleift dunkel verpestete Mähnen in unsern Atem. Unentrinnbar hält uns der Himmel unter sich hingebannt: unheimliches Basiliskenauge über kleinem Getier. Einsam lagen wir da in der Not der Schlacht; wir wussten, dass jeder einsam war. Aber wir wussten auch dies: Einmal vor Unerbittlichem stehn, wo Gebete entrechtet, Gewinsel zu Gott lächerlich ist, wo keines Mutter sich nach uns umsieht, kein Weib unsern Weg kreuzt, wo alles ohne Liebe ist, wo nur die Wirklichkeit herrscht grausig und groß, solches macht sicher und stolz. Unvergesslich und tiefer rührt es ans Herz des Menschen als alle Liebe der Welt. Und wir fühlten: dies war das Maß.

Der Bannerträger Danke wieder was gelernt

Der Bannerträger hm, mit einem Gedicht über den Grabenkrieg in den Seekrieg ziehen, ist ein fast schon ironisches Statement zum Vorstellungsvermögen der deutschen Seekriegsführung beider Weltkriege. Aber vielen Dank für die Quelle.

@@Max_Kraft Danke.

No, it is "Kompassanlage" for sure. It is an important piece of tech as soon as you are on he surface again, to navigate to your destination.

@@phil0934 You are correct. I put in every version of the movie this evening and the subtitles always had Kompassanlage. (The subtitles of the Director's Cut are awful.) The Kompressor would also be a very important device though ;-)

@@JayvH I just have the advantage of speaking German. And yes, the compressor is also very important. ;)

1st time i watched this movie, i thought he looked like Ragnar Lothbrok from Viking series

@@pedrosabino8751 yeah, but before beard not same

@@user-ym3po9gu4e Yes

Greyhound is bullshit to a big part: no uboat would attack as the ones displayed and the radio message thing is total crap.

So sieht es aus 🙃😉

Ich habe ihn immer als Künstler bewundert, was er aber in der Corona-Zeit abgelassen hat, war die Krönung! Seit dem ist er bei mir untendurch!

Fiki2k7 ..you need steel balls and a lot of self control.

Captain crunch maybe?

I want to be the engineer. =).

@@leonardoporfiromazzoco1775 You stole my thought.

That is incorrect. If by interior you mean the uboat itself, that was build and placed on a hydraulic stage to simulate tilting and shaking. Said stage was on the premises of the German film studio Bavaria. Other shots from the film, such as inside of the uboat bunker or even the outside scenes in La Rochelle where actually filmed on location. To my knowledge there where no instances where scenes where shot outside of Germany or France.

@@Tres_24 You are correct. The genius strike was, that the crew was forced to do the movie IN a "real" Type-VII-Sub, they build it so they could do it, but it was so narrow, so "bad" that the people got the right "feeling" for it.

they were flooding that is why they could not prevent the dive to the bottom. He fixed the leaks and reports that the water can now be pumped to the tanks where it will be blown out.

@@methanbreather Flooding doesn't start until the boat hits the bottom of the strait.

If I remember correctly, their bow and stern planes were stuck in the diving position.

@@GearheadExplorer85 If that were the only damage, it would not prevent surfacing by blowing the tanks. Positive buoyancy would have its effect by the time the boat's forward momentum bled off.

@@b43xoit See the movie. It is explained... the sub - at full speed crashdived. But had gotten hits by the airplane. They crashdived and the planes were "maximum dive" position. With the sub also having its crew in the bow, they got an even steeper diving aspect. Even modern subs could not catch this, if they are cought with this scenario. They then crashed on the ground, water entered the sub, it was to heavy. There are scenes in that they did manually move the water into the central section, so they could hope to press the water outside. No fancy stuff... just plain physics. A sub, full speed (3x madness -> so around 17-18kn) go electrical, again full speed and crash dive. Try this with ANY modern sub, have the same failure of the planes and your sub is dead. Period

Er sagt nicht Eddie sondern L.I. (Leitender Ingenieur)

Lol