Set in wwii, it tells the fictional story of the crew of the u96. A few seconds later, in a shot from another angle, with the slate in full view, we see only 22 strokes. As the original films plot ends in december 1941, the series setting takes place nine months later, in 1942. Take advantage of great prices on bluray, merchandise, games, clothing and more.
The submarine pens the sub sets out from, and site of the tragic air raid at the end, are real. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. Jalucian torrent or any other torrent from highres movies category. It was also entered into the 31st berlin international film festival, where it won the silver bear for an outstanding single achievement. The new eightpart series is a sequel set immediately after the events depicted in the bestselling novel by lothargunther buchheim and wolfgang petersens 1981 oscarnominated film. The story is simple, unadorned, and very fucking intense. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, german uboats have begun to take heavy losses.
The film was nominated for the academy award for best foreign language film as a swiss submission. All the actors were fluent in english and dubbed themselves in. Taut, breathtakingly thrilling, and devastatingly intelligent. Meaning the boat, it is an adaptation of lothargunther buchheims 1973 german novel of the same name. The image measures 1947 2908 pixels and is 3678 kilobytes large. This website is not associated with any external links or websites.
During world war ii, switzerland severely limited refugees. At the end of the first attack by the destroyer where she misses the uboat and throws her bombs further away the boatswain makes 22, then 23 strokes on the slate of the control centre,thus counting the number of depth charges used against the boat. The submarine pens the sub sets out from, and site of. It is 1942 and the german submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called battle of the atlantic to harass and destroy english shipping. His other films include the neverending story 1984, enemy mine 1985, in the line of fire 1993, outbreak 1995, air force one 1997, the perfect storm 2000, troy 2004, and poseidon 2006. Sink argentinas carrier 1982 the secret british falklands war mission duration. The film has been remastered to 6x the clarity of dvd, and the collectors set will include commentary from wolfgang peterson, behindthescenes footage, and an indepth tour of u96. A german submarine hunting allied ships during the second world war, soon it themselves hunted. The 293minute version provides more information about.
A german submarine hunts allied ships during the second world war. 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. This is perhaps the greatest movie ever made in my opinion. All images and subtitles are ed to their respectful owners unless stated otherwise. The 293minute version provides more information about individual crew members and everyday life on the ship.
With jurgen prochnow, herbert gronemeyer, klaus wennemann, hubertus bengsch. With tina engel, hans diehl, martin walz, curt bois. Wolfgang petersen born 14 march 1941 is a german film director and screenwriter. The fact that the setting is a war is, amazingly and interestingly, only incidental to its points. A train from germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of switzerland.
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