Das Boot (Mini-Series) (2-DVD)

Das Boot (Mini-Series) (2-DVD)
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
item number:  39GGG
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 13, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1985
  • Label: Mill Creek Entertainment

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Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 47,256
Rating: 4/4 -- Few war films are more potent than Das Boot...the ultimate submarine movie. [Blu-ray] Full Review
Groucho Reviews
Jul 25, 2011
Das Boot is a psychological thriller of the first order. The fact that the setting is a war is, amazingly and interestingly, only incidental to its points. Full Review
Boston Globe
Apr 27, 2018
Peterson has captured the teamwork, the claustrophobia and the peril of underwater warfare. He draws compelling performances from the crewmen, many of them quite young. Full Review
Associated Press
Mar 29, 2019
Petersen's shooting style displays a breathtaking, if impersonal and faintly academic, virtuosity comparable to that of Lean or Coppola. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
The film has no qualities beyond its formal polish. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 9, 2011
Rating: 4/4 -- Gripping and authentic. Full Review
TV Guide
Dec 9, 2011
Agripping, impressively detailed account of one harrowing voyage by a German U-boat during World War II.
Variety
Mar 19, 2009

Product Description:

DAS BOOT is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey. There's very little plot, so the movie's power comes from both its riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the boring hours spent waiting for orders or signs of the enemy. With the exception of one staunch Hitler Youth lieutenant, none of the crew is particularly loyal to the Nazis, and some are openly hostile toward their Fuhrer; this allows viewer sympathy with the men as they perform their laborious, monotonous duties in cramped, filthy quarters, or await death as depth charges explode all around the sub. Prochnow is excellent as the nerves-of-steel commander, and many of the supporting actors -- all German -- are solid as well, although the characterizations border on war movie clichés (the young crewman who has left behind his pregnant girlfriend, the Chief Engineer whose wife is seriously ill). The real star, however, is cinematographer Jost Vacano, who makes the sub's grimy, claustrophobic interior come to vivid life, as his camera follows the crew through hatches, up ladders, into bunks, and under pipes, creating a palpable sense of claustrophobia while injecting it with movement.

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  • UPC: 683904533890
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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