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Upcoming events
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Das Boot | Director's Cut
Luna Leederville, 155 Oxford Street, Leederville 6007, AUGerman Film Festival 2026: Closing Night
Das Boot - Director's CutJoin us as we say auf Wiedersehen to the festival with a special presentation of the Director’s Cut of six-time Oscar nominee Das Boot, which celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2026. Enjoy a sparkling white wine spritz or mocktail on arrival.
Purchase your ticket here:
https://germanfilmfestival.com.au/events?city=PerthThe film starts at 6.30pm - meet us in the cinema from 6pm.
Luna Leederville
155 Oxford Street,
Leederville 6007## Synopsis
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Presented for its 45th anniversary in Wolfgang Petersen’s Director’s Cut, Das Boot remains one of the defining achievements of modern war cinema: immersive, unsentimental and almost unbearably tense. Adapted from Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s novel, the film places us inside the steel claustrophobia of U-96, following a German submarine crew through the monotony, terror and moral exhaustion of wartime patrol in the Atlantic. What emerges is not a tale of heroism, but of endurance: men crushed by machinery, weather, command and history itself. Petersen’s great accomplishment is to strip war of spectacle without sacrificing suspense, creating a film that is at once technically astonishing and deeply human. The 1997 Director’s Cut, supervised by Petersen, expands the original 1981 theatrical version into a 208-minute experience that restores character development from the miniseries while preserving the propulsive force of the feature. Shot with extraordinary physical realism and nominated for six Academy Awards, Das Boot endures as a monumental anti-war epic and a masterclass in cinematic pressure.
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Past events
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