Das Boot (1981) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!

Das Boot (1981)

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Das Boot | The Descent to Hell, Told in Faces | A Film Analysis

The 1981 German film Das Boot follows the crew of a German U-Boat during WWII at a time when there is already a sense that the Germans are on the losing side of the Battle in the Atlantic. More and more U-Boats are being sunk or captured, and U-96 is just one of the dwindling number of U-boats that sets out to sea again. We watch as they suffer through many things, even conquering seemingly impossible obstacles, and returning to port as changed men. Thematically, Das Boot is really about suffering, portraying an ‘experiment to sound out the limits of a person’s ability to suffer,’ specifically in the form of suffering that was actually experienced by men living and fighting aboard a German U-Boat. 

Real navigation officer reacts to Das Boot

I am always scared of ships that tend to sink. But I am willing to go pass that to give a professional review of the movie Das Boot. This movie is actually older than I am, but have constantly been praised as one of the greatness movie ever made, even to this. We will see however if it is also a realistic movie.  

Das Boot is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and a TV miniseries (1985). There are also several different home video versions of various running times, as well as a director's cut supervised by Petersen in 1997.

Das Boot (1981) Reaction & Review! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Das Boot is an instant classic. I’ve never seen a war film from the German perspective, they are almost always shown to be outright bad guys but this film presented them as human beings, as complex characters. Wolfgang Peterson’s magnus opus was a masterpiece of modern cinema, it’s absolutely timeless. The directing was amazing, the performances from the entire crew were some of the best of the era, the cinematography, sound and production were incredible and the story was as old as time itself. It was about war and the effects it has on ordinary men under orders.