In germanoccupied france, a youthful submarine crew gathers for a last night of drunken revelry before they will hit the seas. The film is the story of a single patrol of one world war ii uboat, u96, and its crew. A brilliant film, beautiful theme music and one of the saddest endings ever. In many ways, submarines are the perfect film setting the bulk of the action can take place in a couple of small crowded rooms, yet the knowledge that everything youre seeing is happening deep below the surface of the ocean is enough to make audiences clammy with claustrophobia. It is about the desperate, dangerous and exacting job of manning a submarine. Shipping was fast but the music tracks were not in the same order as they are in the film.
The name of the group u96 is a reference to the film. Musique dexception, comme le film qui est dun realisme epoustouflant. There are no moments of filler on this soundtrack, made longer by the fact that it now accompanies petersons directors cut issued in 1998. The boat is a 1981 west german war film written and directed by wolfgang petersen, produced by gunter rohrbach, and starring jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer, and klaus wennemann. Il est adapt dun livre du mme nom intitul le styx e.
With jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer, klaus wennemann, hubertus bengsch. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, german uboats have begun to take heavy losses. Based on an autobiographical novel by german world war ii photographer lotharguenther buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless uboat captain jurgen prochnow and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the atlantic and mediterranean in search of allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a tv miniseries 1985, in several different home video versions of various running times, and. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Set in world war ii, from the perspective of german uboat submarine sailors, this film keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Hitler announces that german uboats sank 11 british merchant ships and one destroyer. This technoversion was u96s debut single from the album of the same name. Petersens film then shifts suddenly and dramatically to heartpounding tension as the sub engages in battles with british warships. Take advantage of great prices on bluray, merchandise, games, clothing and more. The voices in track 3 and 9 are taken from the film james bond the spy who loved me german version. Ennio morricone once upon a time in the west sergio leone film duration. This is no doubt a metaphorical stab at the fact that the nazi overlords essentially sent literal boatloads of uboat men into the meat grinder. If it were an american sub, we would assume the film ends in victory, identify with the crew.
In 1991, it was covered by alex christensen and his dance music project u 96. This techno version was u96s debut single from the album of the same name. The characteristic lead melody of the soundtrack, composed and produced by klaus doldinger, took on a life of its own after german rave group u96 created a remixed techno version in 1991. The submarine pens the sub sets out from, and site of. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the.
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