One of the best war movies ever made, Das Boot tells the story of a group of submariners aboard the German U-boot in late 1941.
The realism of the images is striking: one can almost smell the putrid scent of those small, confined spaces. The movie strongly resembles "Black Hawk Down": the soldiers do not talk about politics, they do not care if they are doing the right thing or the wrong one. They are the professionals, they have to follow their orders. And they do.
Had the pleasure to watch the full 208-minute long version, which is probably the definitive one: the 5-hour miniseries, for me, was too long and lost some of the dramaturgy in process.
The realism of the images is striking: one can almost smell the putrid scent of those small, confined spaces. The movie strongly resembles "Black Hawk Down": the soldiers do not talk about politics, they do not care if they are doing the right thing or the wrong one. They are the professionals, they have to follow their orders. And they do.
Had the pleasure to watch the full 208-minute long version, which is probably the definitive one: the 5-hour miniseries, for me, was too long and lost some of the dramaturgy in process.