![]() It is late in the war, the convoys are mostly getting through and Churchill is doing pretty well for a drunk and a paralytic. The captain especially ridicules the propaganda line that Churchill is a drunk and paralytic. The atmosphere on board is one of anti-heroism and admiration for the British. He feels as if he is leading a children’s crusade. They make him feel old, the captain confides. Werner (Herbert Grönemeyer) not to snap pictures of them now, because it would shame the British to see that the people sinking their ships are mere beardless boys, who should still be at their mothers’ breasts. He asks the young war correspondent who is travelling with them, Lt. As they put to sea from the submarine pens at La Rochelle the next day, discipline is restored, though the wily old Captain of U-96 (Jügen Prochnow) is full of forboding about the youth and greenness of his crew. The ordinary sailors make rude gestures, insult and even urinate on their officers as the latter make their way by car to the club. It represents indifferently the good and the bad of war and is neither pro nor anti-which of course is just what is necessary for any film about war to be convincing.įilm begins in a French nightclub during a drunken bacchanalia. ![]() ![]() To be “anti-war” it would have to be ideological and doctrinaire and preachy and, well, bad, and it is none of these things. The press material and other reviewers naturally stress the “anti-war” angle-especially as it is about the valiant submariners of Nazi Germany, but don’t you believe it. DASBOOT SONAR MOVIEThis is perhaps the best war movie ever made, capturing as it does both the excitement, the adventure and the glory of war on the one hand and the terror and horror of it on the other. The version of Wolfgang Petersen’s classic Das Boot now arriving in your neighborhood multiplexes is a new director’s cut of the version of 1982 which adds over an hour of original footage to bring the film to an epic three and a half hours in length. ![]()
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