Das Boot (1981)

Name: Das Boot
Released: 1981
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge

• Movies, Drama, History, War

• 150 min

8.1

On land they dreamed of being heroes. Beneath the sea they pray to be survivors.

Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Casting: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Jan Fedder, Rita Cadillac, Ralf Richter, Joachim Bernhard, Oliver Stritzel, Konrad Becker, Lutz Schnell, Martin Hemme, Otto Sander, Günter Lamprecht, Thomas Boxhammer, Roger Barth, Günther Franke, Christian Bendomir, Norbert Gronwald, Albert Kraml, Jean-Claude Hoffmann, Peter Pathenis, Arno Kral, Christian Seipolt, Helmut Neumeier, Ferdinand Schaal, Wilhelm Pietsch, Rolf Weber, Dirk Salomon, Lothar Zajicek, Sky du Mont, Ulrich Günther, Edwige Pierre, Maryline Moulard, Günter Spörrle
Countries: Germany
Premiere: 1981-09-17
Status: Released

Tags: based on novel or book, submarine, war correspondent, atlantic ocean, gibraltar, world war ii, duty, suicide mission, drinking, sailor, convoy, destroyer, naval warfare, naval battle, battle of the atlantic

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.