Le bateau wolfgang petersen biography of jose

German submarine drama film

This article is about the film.

Le bateau wolfgang petersen biography of jose

For the TV series, see Das Boot ( TV series). For other uses, see Das Boot (disambiguation).

Das Boot (German pronunciation:[dasˈboːt], The Boat) is a West Germanwar film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann.

It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release () and a TV miniseries (). Several different home video versions, as well as a director's cut () supervised by Petersen, have also been released.

An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's German novel based on his experiences aboard German submarine&#;U, the film is set during World War II and follows U and her crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic.

It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals w