Das Boot

On the data. Two things: which cut, and what the series is. The film exists in several versions. There is a one hundred and forty nine minute theatrical cut, a six part television version of about five hours from 1985, a Director's Cut of about three and a half hours from 1997, and an original television cut of roughly the same length as the six parter. The theatrical version is the one most widely available and the weakest: the film's subject is waiting, fear and tedium, and cutting it for length removes exactly that. The five hour version is the one to look for. The 2018 series is not a remake. It is set in 1942, after the film, follows a completely different crew, and splits its time between a submarine and a resistance story on shore in La Rochelle. Four seasons, thirty two episodes. It is a decent series and it is a different proposition from the film. The author hated the film. Buchheim served aboard the real U-96 as a war correspondent and wrote the novel from that. He attacked Petersen's film repeatedly in print, calling it melodramatic and accusing it of glorifying what he had written as horror. He also wrote a sequel novel, Die Festung, which has never been filmed. One practical note: the German audio with subtitles is strongly preferable. The English dub was recorded by the original cast, which is unusual and better than most dubs, but the performances are still in the German.

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