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{{quote|'''Captain of the "Weser":''' So, what's it like down there, in a submarine?
'''Der Leitende:''' It's... quiet.
'''Captain of the "Weser":''' Quiet? Hmm.}}
''[[Das Boot]]'' is a [[The Eighties|1981]] German movie about the German submersible U-96. It is directed by Wolfgang Petersen and stars, among very good German stage actors, Jürgen Prochnow as [[The Captain]] (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''). The events portrayed in the movie are based on a book by Lothar G. Buchheim, which was based on his own experiences aboard a German sub [[During the War|during]] [[World War II]]. The movie is generally praised for its [[Sub Story|realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic atmosphere in a WWII sub]]. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.▼
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▲''Das Boot'' is a [[The Eighties|1981]] German movie about the German submersible U-96. It is directed by Wolfgang Petersen and stars, among very good German stage actors, Jürgen Prochnow as [[The Captain]] (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''). The events portrayed in the movie are based on a book by Lothar G. Buchheim, which was based on his own experiences aboard a German sub [[During the War|during]] [[World War II]]. The movie is generally praised for its [[Sub Story|realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic atmosphere in a WWII sub]]. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.
By now you may wonder why nothing has been said about the plot so far. That is because the plot is quite simple. The U-96 sets sail. They then spend weeks trudging around the mid-Atlantic dealing with boredom, bad weather and a complete absence of Allied targets. {{spoiler|They manage to attack one convoy and sink two ships, and get almost killed by the Allied navy. They then get ordered into a near-suicidal situation and are only spared from death pretty much by chance. They escape after a horrendous, odds-defying ordeal and limp home. The ship is then sunk the instant it docks by an Allied air raid.}} That's pretty much it.
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