Some more trivia about the film “Das Boot”…
Hi gentlemen,
to me (being German, therefore having seen the movie dozens of times in cinema and on TV) “Das Boot” is the definite war film. None other even comes close.
This is one of the few movies that you can see a dozen times and still find new details (watch the sonar operator call out his bearings and move his direction finder correctly!).
But even more amazing to me is that “Das Boot” was the start of a big career for most of the participating actors (not to mention the Director, Wolfgang Petersen, who became the only internationally successful German movie producer). For nearly *any* of Germany’s top 20 actors of the 1990s “Das Boot” was the first movie they starred in.
The actor who played the reporter, Herbert Grönemeyer, was an unknown rock musician when he starred in “Das Boot”. Sunsequently he became Germanys top rock star (which he still is 15 years later).
Greetings from Germany
Andreas
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