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 enlarge | Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  362 reviews
Sales Rank: 4051
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 209
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: D22219D
ISBN: 0767802470
UPC: 043396222199
EAN: 9780767802475
ASIN: 0767802470
Theatrical Release Date: February 10, 1982
Release Date: December 10, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 DAS BOOT DVD April 7, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought it because this version had Closed Captions in English. But, the Closed Captions verbiage did not match the actual spoken English in the dvd, so it became a joke to follow the movie.
 At last! The uncut original! April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At long last, Wolfgang Petersen's original version of DAS BOOT, broadcast as a miniseries on European television before being recut for feature film release, is widely available on DVD! If you have never seen the full series, set aside five hours and savor the brilliance of DAS BOOT. (And you will need to set aside the time, because, once begun, you won't want to pause until the story is finished. It's that good.)
The full length of the story in the Miniseries edition gives all the characters room to breathe and truly live, from Jurgen Prochnow's star-making turn as Captain Lehmann-Willenbrock to Herbert Gronemeyer as the young, wide-eyed correspondent Lt. Werner, to Klaus Wennemann as the sub's Chief Engineer, to Erwin Leder as Johann, to all the superb cast, who worked hard to make every moment aboard the U-Boat absolutely believable and heart-wrenching.
Now, this does not mean that you will need to throw away your previous "Director's Cut" DVD of DAS BOOT: the remixed and remastered sound design (which really comes through on headphones) and the indispensable and delightful commentary track, which are only available on that DVD, are well worth keeping for your library. There is no commentary on the Miniseries edition of DAS BOOT, and the remixed sound is close to the original series mix, just cleaner and crisper. The "Making Of" documentary on the Miniseries edition is the same one on the "Director's Cut" DVD.
Despite the lack of bonuses (a real, 25-year retrospective documentary would have been most welcome), the Miniseries edition of DAS BOOT is a must, the single greatest submarine film ever made (sorry, Mr. Connery), and a mountaintop that Mr. Petersen has come close to, but never bested.
A "real" war movie March 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the few films about war that is realistic. The viewer can feel the tension and the fear and enjoy the occasional moments of humor. When the action moves onto the submarine, you can almost smell the sweat, the spoiled food, the diesel fuel. I am not normally a big fan of war movies, but this doesn't feel like a movie it feels like real life. There is no "Hollywood" here.
Deserves A Sixth Star February 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There isn't much to add to what's been said about Das Boot, because the acclaim this motion picture has gathered over nearly thirty years speaks loudly enough. I will note that Das Boot is not only the greatest movie about naval warfare that's ever been made, it ranks as one of film's most intense portraits of human psychology. I don't care how anti-German a person might be in his or her feelings about the Second World War, I guarantee anyone possessing common humanity will quickly bond with this U-boat's crew and be pulling with all his or her might in hope of their survival in the brutal crucible of mechanized war. Just as it has validly been said Stanley Kubrick achieved the impossible in 2001: A Space Odyssey and compelled audiences to suspend disbelief long enough to forget they were not actually watching a mission taking place in deep space, so viewers quickly set aside the fact that Das Boot was shot inside a set, albeit one that recreated a German submarine down to the tiniest detail. Das Boot radiates authenticity and not only suspends all disbelief as to the reality of what one is seeing, it obliterates it. A fine motion picture by any scale, though not for one second for the faint of heart.
best sub film ever February 22, 2008
This is simply the best submarine film. And for fans of Das Boot, this uncut version does some good. Lets you really think about life for these people during that time. A good film should do that. A good film should let you get lost in the story and the period of that time.
This uncut version of nearly 5 hours is a treat, and it goes by so fast that the only thing you notice while immersed into the storyline is that you have to get up to change the DVD's in the player.
After it is all done you start to wonder when are the movie people going to remake their movies in-dept and longer for the DVD's? But then you realize that it works for THIS film because it's so good, and it may or may not work for other films.
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