Buchheim was a war correspondent working for the German Propaganda Ministry (all war correspondents in the Third Reich worked for the Propaganda Ministry) and in that capacity he went on two war patrols aboard the actual German U-Boat, U-96. You get a far better feel for life aboard a German U-Boat when the men are speaking in German and you hear the urgency in the voices of the actors as it would have been in real life. Henrich Lehmann- Willenbrock, the actual commander of U- 96 and 6th highest scoring U-Boat ace of the war when Buchheim was aboard and not the fictitious commander of the U-boat always referred to as the "Old Man." I would strongly recommend that you watch the movie in the original German with English subtitles rather than the version dubbed into English. The IMDb lists the German actor Jürgen Prochnow as playing Capt.-Lt. The author of the novel was actually aboard the U-Boat on several war patrols. This imparts an authenticity to the film often lacking in many war films. Das Boot is based on the novel of the same name which is a thinly disguised memoir by the author, Lothar Gunther Buchheim. I say this to establish my credibility to write the following review. I did this to research my novel, An Honorable German, a World War Two naval epic told from the point of view of a heroic yet deeply conflicted German naval officer, published in 2009. I researched German U-Boats for many years, interviewed surviving crew as well as current day German naval officers.
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