Historical Revisionism in Film: Das Boot (1981) by Wolfgang Petersen

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, this epic thriller about a German U-Boat crew looks at World War II from the Axis side, presenting a gripping and immersive experience that ranks it among the greatest of all submarine movies. Jürgen Prochnow plays the captain of the U-96, a German submarine hunting Allied ships in the "Battle of the Atlantic" — but it soon becomes the hunted. The film examines how the young crew maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time trying to understand and obey the ideology of the regime under which they served.

Das Boot received six Academy Award nominations, including for Directing, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, and Sound.

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Please watch the movie before the discussion.

The (slightly disgusting) English dubbed version is available here: https://m.ok.ru/video/2428634532563?__dp=y

The giga-chad English subtitles version is here: https://m.ok.ru/video/3720975944398