Das Boot - The Director's Cut

It is a true journey through hell, a matter of life and death, in the midst of World War II. The crew of U-96, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Lehmann, respectfully called “The Old Man” by his men, are both hunters and hunted on their mission. The crew is hunted by enemy destroyers and bombed by aircraft – in the depths of the Atlantic, relying on the nerve-wracking “ping” of their sonar. The successful film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name is based on the memoirs of former war correspondent Lothar-Günther Buchheim. In 1997, star director Wolfgang Petersen had his successful film, which was nominated for six Oscars in 1983 and won several prestigious film awards, restored in a painstakingly detailed process. With new sharpness and even more excitement, a well-known cast of German acting greats fights for survival: Alongside Jürgen Prochnow as the captain and Herbert Grönemeyer as war correspondent Lieutenant Werner, from whose perspective most of the action is told, actors such as Martin Semmelrogge, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Ralf Richter, Heinz Hoenig, Otto Sander, Günter Lamprecht, and Sky du Mont form part of the U96 crew.