Das Boot (1981) - Convoy attack - English subtitles

Das Boot (1981)
This is, quite simply, the best movie about naval warfare to ever grace the silver screen. Yeah, it takes an investment of more than 3 hours to watch the thing, but you come away so mesmerized that it feels like the time passed in a blink of an eye. It's a stunning portrayal of how the wartime tables turned on a confident German U-boat fleet of wolfpack hunters, as Allied fortunes turned and the wolves became the hunted, forced to flee, and hide, and endure the terror of incessant depth charge barrages. It's an emotional roller coaster that takes you from the elation of triumph to the humility of survival and the ultimate despair of defeat. It's also a movie that's powerful in its depiction of enemy combatants not as monsters, but as human beings who feel the same things we might feel. A masterpiece!

[@stevenmoore4612]

War on the high seas is just as brutal as war on land. This movie is a timeless masterpiece.

[@jaakkosaha5787]

In the early stages of the war both sides usually picked up enemy survivors. As the war progressed it became far more bitter.

[@stevenmoore4612]

Especially after May of ‘43 known as black May by the Germans when the allies were sinking record numbers of u boats. Understandably the Germans would have resentment towards the British and Americans for killing many of their comrades.

[@y.r._]

@@stevenmoore4612 May 43 was not the issue. Laconia was. In 1942, a german U-Boat tried to rescue the crew of the Laconia, but got attacked by allied airforce. Another driving factor was the increasing allied bombardement of german cities, which was explicitly stated in the Laconia-Order - basically "don't rescue enemy crew, don't be compassionate, the enemy also shows no mercy on civilians when bombing our cities to rubble".

[@jeffmilroy9345]

It is far, far more brutal when ill winds kick up and shoal water abounds. RIP seagoing victims of the blizzard of 78. RIP Charley Bucko and Frank Quirk and crew.

[@andrzejhinc6404]

Nah, its more of the Laconia fault ​@@stevenmoore4612

[@target42100]

most realastic war film ever made. To put things into perspective a little as horrific as this scene is 40,000 men served in u-boats during ww2 only 10,000 survived.

[@deneshbhaskar8650]

It was a safe job in the start of WW2 however with radar improving...the death rate is just crazy. 3 out of 4 U-boat mens coffin was the U-boat

[@mikkel066h]

@@deneshbhaskar8650 It was sonar and improved weapons to deal with U-boats like the hedgehog system. And yes improved radar on patrol planes claimed many uboats as well.

[@matthew-us9ti]

It's also important to think of the allied sacrifice. 73 thousand allied personnel including merchant navy died in the Atlantic alone. The British and Americans would lose an additional 76 warships and 48 submarines in the Mediterranean not including enormous merchant navy losses. Crazy how much blood shed there was at sea

[@Rockhunter329]

One source I saw said 785 out of 1162 Uboats were lost.

[@azbag1906]

The British also captured the secret German code machine and the Germans were not aware for sometime. The Ally’s were able to intercept u-boat transmissions for a while around this point in the war. This movie is an all time great and it still holds up to this day. (Yes copied this comment and put it in the main thread)

[@LordZontar]

The cinematography of the scene with the burning wreck on the surface is pure artistry. It gives you a sense that U-96 had actually surfaced in some part of Hell.

[@louise_rose]

And it was produced long before modern CGI! The comment track of the Director's Cut dvd is very interesting, as Petersen talks us through how the scenes were actually made, props and real ships, discusses picture compositions and their impact, the acting and so on...

[@CharliePuma]

That's exactly what I said! The red lighting, the moody, brooding, terribly dark piano stabs, the dialogue and sounds, and most of all, the captains face. One of the most impactful scenes of any movie I've ever seen. Another amazing scene is when the are stuck in the straight of Gibraltar. Amazing movie. 10/10

[@Piece-Of-Time]

Pretty sure this boat would swim through hell and it would still work

[@dylandettorre]

The depth charge scenes in this movie were absolutely terrifying. I'm 99% sure all of us held our breath in those scenes.

[@Piece-Of-Time]

"From this moment, it's a psychology" Damn, I've watched 5 hours long version(which is mini-series, but I've watched them within a day), and it didn't get boring for a second. Even during the moments when nothing really happens, they somehow felt this fast. And now there are scenes with The Boat being spotted and bombed. Each time I was thinking if it's gonna end now and from this moment the movie(series) will be about the other captain

[@johnfish1194]

Possibly the greatest submarine movie ever made. Great job all.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Possibly?

[@stephenokeefe7068]

Thank you W. Peterson for putting us in that U-boat absolute masterpiece of film, moved me more than any war movie ever

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

This is a true classic. Couple this with The Cruel Sea and you've got the Battle of the Atlantic. Both fantastic pieces of cinematic art, neither glorifying an horrific battle.

[@michaelengel3407]

Reality of war up to our days. No glory but suffering and death.

[@StarryNight007]

Also Greyhound on Apple tv. 2020 film with Tom Hanks

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

​@StarryNight007 Never seen it nor wanted to. It seems too much like 'Murica saves the world. Even though they were 2.5 yrs late!

[@oblivious108]

I remember watching this film for the first time with my dad and I was enjoying it. But when I saw the poor British sailors jumping into the ocean after being attacked, I was on the verge of tears as they cried for help with no one to answer them.

[@haitolawrence5986]

Most likely Canadians or Americans actually.

[@largol33t1]

@@haitolawrence5986 Makes sense. We and our northern neighbor were the ones supplying the British at this point in the war. Winston Churchill said nothing terrified him more than the U-boats and I'm sure the attack on Scapa Flow by U-47 cost him many nights of sleep...

[@rexringtail471]

0.01% chance they were British, that would mean they were contributing to the war

[@noahschaar280]

Skill issue

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@haitolawrence5986 british sailors did take part, merchant navy

[@professor.moriarty9803]

This is one of the best war films I have ever watched in my life, no CGI, no coincidence, no protagonist miracles. Outstanding performance from all casts, extremely realistic. 10/10

[@ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Great movie. I saw it dubbed in English in 1982. I was so impressed that I took German in college to understand it better.

[@wuloki]

The English dub was actually made by the German actors themselves. :)

[@marvihaemmer9881]

Das ist beeindruckend👍🏻

[@cheeseandonions9558]

@@wuloki I think there are at least 2 version of the English dubbing for this movie. Only one is good.

[@lesmalone9109]

It has so much more resonance when it's spoken auf deutsch

[@samnigam3451]

Das Boot is still the best naval warfare movie. WW2 movies are mostly intense bloody gory full of drama n bloody battles. Iam anti War. Hello from India 🇮🇳

[@benadam7753]

@705, the captain wouldn't have wasted a torpedo on a ship this badly damaged, he would've finished it off with the deck gun!

[@jessesmith-garcia5313]

I like how the Captain describes the scene, like he's done this sort of thing many times before.

[@jothain]

Das Boot and Band of Brothers. In my opinion definitely best war movies/series.

[@gentlemanvontweed7147]

Meh. Best and historically most accurate movies are the Battle of the Bulge (1965) and Fury.

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

Gentleman Von Tweed Fury? Obvious troll.

[@gentlemanvontweed7147]

@@Leon_der_Luftige 😂

[@michaelagnew7493]

​@@gentlemanvontweed7147 But Battle of the Bulge has very little snow in it, right? I just couldn't get over that even though I like Telly Savalas

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Band of Douches!

[@Sou1defiler]

You also have to take into account that the vast majority of men who would jump into the water were dead in seconds, either due to hypothermia from thermal shock or because there was so much oil and tar in the surrounding water it would have dragged them under the water and drowned them before they had swum 10 yards. Convoys themselves tended to be of the attitude "every ship for themselves", it sounds callous but better to lose 3 ships than a whole convoy picking up survivors

[@leebutton1062]

Not really me Grandad was sunk on Ark Royal and most survived - plenty survived Titanic!

[@surprisedchar2458]

@@leebutton1062 The vast majority of passengers on the Titanic died. Out of 2200 people aboard, only 706 lived.

[@barker262]

Proof that great sound design and realistic sets (Uboot interiors) are better than CGI.

[@uboot1967]

Perhaps the very best movie I ever watched. Greetings from Greece

[@coba83]

War never changes... War is cruel and ruthless.

[@ElYeyuno]

Whatever you think of the war, this movie is one of the best I have ever seen.

[@MrDerOutsider]

the translation is laughable.

[@MrGoodspeedy]

+MrDerOutsider naturlich

[@Toni-uc4nt]

+MrDerOutsider heul doch du englischexperte

[@MrGoodspeedy]

***** angepisst? Nein !

[@Toni-uc4nt]

+MrDerOutsider ichbinangepisstweilichimmerangepisstbinwennichangepisstseinwill.

[@doofkos]

Die Übersetzung ist nicht wörtlich, sondern "landestypisch". Wörtliche Übersetzungen sind oftmals Schrott. Ein Beispiel dafür liefert Asterix bei den Briten in satirischer Weise. Das klingt dann komisch, tut es nicht?

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

after basic training in norfolk in 1939, my father was briefly on destroyer escort duty in the north atlantic from philadelphia to iceland - he said the u-boat sailors were very good from all their training in the north sea ~ he was transferred to san diego in 1940 and on to the south pacific until getting sunk in october 1942, then was spotting at the cherbourg harbor bombardment in july 1944

[@AllatoonaBass]

One of the best anti war movies ever made.

[@martinfranke846]

Much like Remarq's "All Quiet on the Western Front" for the first War.

[@sneekylinux]

if you ever want to watch a ww2 naval movie,and have 3 hours to spare,this is the one to watch,even if you can only get subtitled version,you will not be disappointed,i actully broke my vhs one a long time ago,so now have 2 copies on disc...

[@CryoCoffinVampire]

I’ve never cried for a movie more than in this moment. 8:51

[@LaatiMafia]

This is a bit cut-down version, the original uncut director's edition is the best :)

[@HolgerLovesMusic]

0:45 "Merkwürdig" here: "That's funny" should be: "strange" , 0:50 "Wir haben hier einen von uns auf der anderen Seite?" here: "They could be off chasing one of ours" should be: "Do we have one of us on the other side?" , 1:02 "Verdammt hell!" here: "That damn moon!" should be: "damn bright!" , 1:44 "Wird klappen Herr Kaleun (Kapitän-Leutnant/Captain-Lieutenant), ganz sicher." here: "It'll work. We've got hem." should be: It'll work Sir Captain-Lieutenant, certainly." And many many more...

[@WieEiPiehGuy]

"Jagen die einen von uns auf der anderen Seite?". Wie kann man das so falsch verstehen?!

[@abooga8]

@@WieEiPiehGuy das habe ich ja auch gehören

[@Folma7]

@persilbran, I agree. There are a "technical" glitches in the movie as well. Remember at the opening of this scene the Captain orders the boat to swing left to 180 degrees? He and the other officer the continue to look at the targets as if the boat hadn't changed heading at all.

[@davidkolaga8489]

An excellent film. I can recommend the book as well

[@kevincho1187]

I play this retro game, Silent Hunter 3. Due to how realistic that game is when calculating torpedoes hitting a target, i honestly get them celebrating a hit

[@dandyjesus]

Anyone notice this guttural sound by the ginger-haired guy at 4:22? Always gives me a chuckle.

[@dmer-zy3rb]

martin semmelrogge - funny guy both in the movie and in realife.

[@Brightgalrs]

A very powerful scene.

[@CortinasforestalesChaco]

I am a ashamed , but I must to say in this film, for only time in my life , I feel that the germanis in the WWII must win him battle. Only a masterpiece can change the mind for a moment.

[@maxlpower4985]

OMG... these subtitels... worst translation ever!

[@doofkos]

No, it corresponds to the language habits. A literal translation is often not possible because it makes no sense to English speakers. For example: "Da säuft einer ab". Would you translate it somehow like: "There is one drinking up/down"?

[@axelvetter]

@@doofkos That's not what Max'l Power means. For instance Kaleun looks up to the the full moon and says "Verdammt hell!". (Damn, that's bright) The translation for the subtitles is "That damn moon".

[@doofkos]

@@axelvetter, that's absolutly correct. Google "That damn moon" and you will see.

[@wuloki]

The subtitles (at least the ones I've seen) really aren't that good. The most striking thing is that a lot of swearing and obscenities are washed down. During the practice-dive scene at the beginning, one of the officer shouts "Move it boys, or I'll make the water in your asses boil!!". The subs translate this like "Hurry, boys! Move it!". There's hardly a scene without shit, fuck, balls, damn, etc., but it reflects the fact that Germans were never shy about swearing. [I'm German]

[@175924]

@@doofkos I am German and the Translation is Poor Very much indeed

[@nigelbilsby3826]

The only two things missing from das boot is the fear in the u boats crew eyes and the smell of the u boat, best series /film ever, for once they have it correct, small, crampt, dirty,smelly,outside of Liverpool, there's a real u-boat called u boot story, you should go if you can, you get to see inside a real one, it's smaller than you think!

[@jaakkosaha5787]

Dipping into salt water with 3rd degree burns all over your body must be painful.

[@immortalass]

why would you bother torpedoing a ship that has its keel broken and is also completely on fire

[@Otonosekai]

This is "QUALITY MADE IN GERMANY"... Loving greetings from Germany 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@victorbrunswick]

@Gruenkreuz100 Significantly, at the beginning of the movie the 1st Watch Officer (the one who's weeping at the end of the clip) was the boat's resident Nazi whom everyone else couldn't stand.

[@JazzJaRa]

@cozygoth No idea what i wrote exactly ;) but yes it was a american B-24 Liberator plane "Lieutenant James D. Harden" USAAF, which became the order to sink the submarine. So the Captain had to cap the ropes of the ships and the most people in the rescueships were killed by the bombs and machineguns of the plane.

[@pop5678eye]

War is hell

[@chriseffpunkt4333]

"Beide Maschinen halbe fahrt zurück" halb=50% "Two-thirds"=66,66% comeon translator, do your job right

[@jeffmilroy9345]

They are not sad for the drowning victims - they are sad and tremendously feaful that they can expect no better when the tables are turned. And they already know the war is as good as lost - WW1 provided the answer to that. The unwritten code of a naval life is that all must answer a rescue call. Break the code at your peril.

[@andrewieckhorst2075]

The Translate is wrong!

[@MustangGT4]

So confused. I'm American and these guys were the "bad guys", but they were still brave and resiliant to the end. Do I like it or no? Any advice?

[@Filmriz]

the only true version of this film is the 5 hour 2 minutes TV version harr harr! best movie EVER!

[@Joker3797]

@WindmillStalker yeah i have the directors cut with the orginal german track and english subtitles. I saw Das Boot on a movie channel i have and it was dubbed in english, and it killed the movie.

[@Folma7]

@JazzJaRa....I did read about the incident you've mentioned. I forget sometimes how fierce fighters the British can be, especially at sea! I recall how they cracked the Kriegsmarine codes, however to glean the most from this boon they allowed convoys to sail into Wolfpacks, to draw them in unsuspecting, for the kill!

[@tiivc]

@morbionicle the translation is a compromise between accuracy and brevity, it's hard to read long subtitles and still follow the movie

[@Oche76]

Best WW2 movie

[@DreamyWoIf]

Thanks.

[@harrihiltunen4712]

best part this movie.....

[@adamsteele6148]

Bury lies on flames

[@matthiaswagner5637]

German here. English subtitles horribly wrong.

[@ivanafterfive]

Plus the "Laconia Order" in 1942 after that incident which pretty much said the same thing.

[@493175001]

Survivors from the laconia were kept on the deck (type IXs have wider decks) and towed on life boats, they didnt keep them inside the boat.

[@andrewmedley6848]

The absolute horror of war , and what have we learnt from it . FA !

[@jager18903]

The convoys standing orders were not to stop for survivors, not to stop for anything. If they attepted rescue , the U-boats would have torn them to pieces . Great way to serve your Country, Huh?

[@jrs689]

Okay, then. Though perhaps it's because subtitles have a knack of merely paraphrasing what is being spoken?

[@DreamyWoIf]

Is this the original cut? I'm asking because there is a whole 20 minutes and more long scene starting around 5:26 where the destroyer starts attacking them and they barely make it after 6 hours and then check for their destroyed targets at 5:28.

[@strokesfan1107]

Not to mention, they had absolutely no room on board for prisoners!

[@Badezimmerarmatur]

Most of the subtitles are incorrect translations.

[@hamburgareable]

a gargantuan ww2 sub movie of utmost significance

[@megatwingo]

@Meeresgaenger "elektrisch gefallen"? That would be an unusual report from a battle station. Too bad that my "Das Boot" book is 600 kilometers away at my parents, so I can´t control this line. But again: This would be an unusual, too complicated report. Maybe you should read that part again, just to be sure. It´s more likely, that simply "Schuß Rohr drei ist gefallen" was reported, like it was the case in this movie. Without the extra mentioning of "electrical".

[@megatwingo]

@zsqpwxxeh Bitte schön! :) Many German words have several meanings. It depends on the context, what some words mean. If you say: "Der Soldat ist gefallen", it means, that the soldier died (in battle). There are several words for the same thing, too. When the shot went out of a gun, one can say: "Der Schuß ist gefallen" (The shot fell) or "Der Schuß ist gebrochen" (The shot broke). Both is correct.

[@frodo008]

@aux0armes A submarine is a weapon manned by a crew. It is not a cruise ship equipped to carry people around house and feed them for an unspecified period of time. War has no rules. War is not pretty. A submarine by nature has a brutal assignment or assignments. The crew's reaction is spot on.

[@xBlackout718x]

Is there not a word for backboard? It sounds like he says it that way in the movie, too.

[@galluer]

@hertblue but the destroyers had already established themselves ! There was nothing to fear with the destroyers in action. Also the destroyers could themselves have rescued the men.

[@josephastier7421]

Their own ships don't rescue them because YOU GUIYS ARE STILL HERE

[@KristerAndersson-nc8zo]

Genau!

[@Folma7]

@Persilbran & JazzJaRa....You both seem to have a great interest in WWII Submarine Warfare. Have either of read Clay Blair's "Silent Victory" (US Submarine Warfare vs Japan) or "Hitler's U-Boat War" (U-Boat Warfare in the Atl/Med/N. Sea)??

[@owlgothic248]

Watching now 2023 Alarm alarm

[@oldenough13]

@MikeofWyoming Just added your answer to my favorite quotes, thanks.

[@nederwiet1]

@hertblue yeah but he couldn't save em cos there's no room and they would have to abandon mission and go home..

[@oldenough13]

@Kaneiku Ok I didn't read your second comment yet, my fault - so my simple question is: Did you even READ what I initially wrote? (not to mention this fictive attack takes place somewhere in the Atlantic)

[@bighub80]

@zsqpwxxeh The report from the Torpedoroom is very hard to understand. I just watched the scene on the DVD and it sounds like "Aus Rohr 3 ist gefallen" which makes no sense. If you re-build the sentence to "Rohr 3 ist ausgefallen" it would be "Tube 3 failure", but a german native speaker would never use this grammar. I also watched the english subtitles on the TV-version (because there are no german subtitles) and it says: "Tube three fired!".

[@engasal]

*Very Juicy*

[@Suojeluninja]

@alanlej Have you watched "The Unknown Soldier 1955"? It pretty muchly meets your description. You can watch it on KZbin.

[@ParaTruth]

3:47 Die Hunde schießen - the dogs are shooting

[@jeanclaudejaffry94]

Je suis de lorient

[@punkshking]

@Holowachuk yes.truly said...

[@chefsessel81]

So basically the allied convoy went on and let down their own people on that burning freighter?

[@charlescollins7294]

Ich Verstain," Das ist Verbote'n'

[@ishtvaan9789]

There is one scene missing, right after the ending of this one, and I tried to translate them better. Officer: “There are STILL people on board! There!” Captain: “Why has nobody picked them up from the ship? Damn it! So many hours!” Officer: “They’re heading towards us, Captain!” Captain: “Both engines back half speed.” --- this scene is followed by a scene in the captain’s room and IMHO should have been added. The officers sit around the table, shocked, speechless or in thought. Captain: ”Not a good thing. But there was no alternative.” Leutnant Werner: “Why?” Captain: “I beg your pardon?” Leutnant Werner: “Why did it have to be?” Captain: “Because we don’t even have enough room on board for the fifty men who are needed here! How many would you have picked up? One? Ten? A hundred? We have orders to sink enemy ships where we find them. Everything else you may ask the “Gentlemen” who started this war”.

[@fritzwilhelm7175]

The whole sequence with the waterbombs is missing after the first attack

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

Thanks for adding this.

[@doofkos]

@@fritzwilhelm7175, indeed, but nevertheless some of the superstructures of the "Boot" are badly damaged.

[@paavobergmann4920]

@Tim Taylor jup. Also the look on their faces when they hear the bulkheads breaking, realizing they just drowned hundreds of people as the "targets" sink rapidly.

[@Exodon2020]

Another U-Boat did just that after sinking the British Ocean Liner Laconia, took as many survivors as possible on board and all liftboats in tow. It ended up being spotted by an American Torpedo Bomber and despite the Pilot correctly identifying the scene as a Rescue Mission and relaying that information to his Commander he was still ordered to attack - which he subsequently did. Admiral Doenitz reacted promptly by prohibiting any further Rescue Attempts - which caused him to get a place on the dock at the Nuremberg Trials. On the American side there has neither been an investigation nor has anyone ever faced charges over attacking an ongoing rescue effort and recklessly endangering Allied Soldiers and Civilians alike.

[@jasondelmaitre2838]

I've never seen a film which is so realistic like this. Miles better than the whole Hollywood shit.

[@0klahoma228]

in germany we say "deutsche wertarbeit" and ich glaube es es ist wunderschön jaja!

[@GreatLeviathen]

There actually are plenty. Band of Brothers for example is very realistic and is "hollywood" :)

[@GreatLeviathen]

@Thomas Rosøy If you would read up on the books written by people that were there at those parts you would know band of brothers did a good job on being realistic. But looking at your reaction you have no idea about history. I live nearby the area and heard it all from my great grandfather who fought in 40-45.

[@GreatLeviathen]

@Thomas Rosøy Again you need to read up on things. Band of Brothers is 1 of the most realistic ones out there. Can find it on the internet or ask people that heard the stories from their family or if people are still alive ask them. Anyway, the US did liberate us. Who else did? Russia? France? lol. No, without the US, Germany would have won. It is facts and your conspiracy opinions don't matter in that.

[@GreatLeviathen]

@Thomas Rosøy Ok you clearly didn't pay attention to history. Keep believing your made up conspiracy stories ok. You weren't here when it all happened and my great grandfather was. Sorry to burst your fake bubble but the US has done more good than most in the world. Never seen russia do good or china, north korean, ukraine and so on. Also the war in ukraine at this moment is ukraines own fault. they shouldn't have applied to nato or the EU. They have no business here. Zelensky is the real issue here, an actor that failed acting and now wants to act with speeches to pull everyone into his pity story for fame. Biden is an idiot yes, Putin is an idiot yes, Zelensky is just as bad as all of them.

[@kpd3308]

At least during part of the war, convoy ships were ordered not to stop for survivors, for fear that they would also be attacked. They had to sail past any survivors, knowing that their fellow sailors were doomed. I am sure that was agonizing to do.

[@novat9731]

There is a story during WW1, usually just called 'Action of 22 September 1914'. Where the British lost 3 armored cruisers to a single submarine. How? Well the first sinking was just competence on part of the Germans, but the two subsequent sinkings were made significantly easier by the British stopping to take on survivors. There was even a British sailor, Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave. He was present on all 3 sinkings, being present on the first cruiser then rescued twice to be sunk on the other two as well. Before finally being picked up by a Dutch trawler sometime after the battle. Considering the top speed of some merchant ships during WW2 being in the 10-15 knot range. With significant difficulties getting there. The choice to simply sail on was probably not a bad idea, regardless of how cold it may sound.

[@gildor8866]

From 1941 on there were often ships at the end of the convoy specifically tasked with picking up survivors, so your best hope was for this ship to pick you up.

[@philipmain5701]

True - my father was on the Shirvan which was torpedoed off Iceland in convoy. An Icelandic freighter stopped to rescue the survivors. This ship was then torpedoed and my father was on a life raft next to the Icelandic captain who took a flask of brandy from his pocket and shared it with the survivors. When this flask arrived at my father it was empty so he dipped in the sea, took a sip and passed it to the captain who drank it without comment. Due to the fact that the Icelandic freighter had stopped to rescue survivors against convoy rules he was subject to a board of inquiry which my father was ordered to give witness along with a ship mate. Due to a technicality, this enquiry was suspended so my father and his shipmate went to the Savoy for a meal - the waiter came and opened an opened an unordered bottle of wine - when questioned he pointed to a table where the Icelandic captain had ordered the wine. Standing to toast the Icelandic captain my father said the wine tasted of sea water. My father, Captain Francis L Main said that the water was so cold that within 3 minutes the drowning men were gone, all was silence - I have the commendation for his actions during that episode framed and on my wall signed by C Atlee

[@torarildhenriksen371]

During the winter convoys on the barents sea there was no point picking anyone up because of the low sea temperature. They died of hyperthermia just after a few minutes.

[@kpd3308]

@@torarildhenriksen371 the time duration is often exaggerated. Even in freezing seawater, a person can usually last at least 30 minutes before death. Of course anyone retrieved would require immediate proper treatment for recovery. I recall a true story of men that were rescued from the North Sea, due to an oil derrick fire, if I recall, and they all died because the well-intentioned rescuers gave them hot coffee.

[@spaman7716]

I love the range of emotions they intend for the audience to have in this scene. The first bit of anticipation for them to hit the convoy, the feeling of joy when you hear the booms (because you are cheering on these men by this point), then the slow realization that war is not just Cowboys and Indians, and that war has consequences. Such an amazing film.

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

My grandfather was a merchant marine in the Atlantic. He said they were told to sleep in their uniforms with their life vests on and it was not a joke. If you were going to get hit it would probably be at night and you'd have no warning whatsoever. Some ships were so old and rickety the crew slept on the deck rather than risk being trapped belowdecks.

[@Ozgur72]

Cowboys and Indians had consequences too.

[@bowelrupture]

Some ships were badly build also. There are stories of ships breaking apart at open sea. In WWII it was all about quantity, instead of quality. @@Rutherford_Inchworm_III

[@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC]

@@Ozgur72I think he's saying it's not like the pretend game "cowboys and indians" (not literally the conflicts in the American Frontier), but I get your point

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

I saw this as a little kid. Coming from Hull I grew up knowing alot of old men who'd either served in the military, the merchant navy or who had worked the King George docks during the war. Hull was perhaps the most bombed target in the UK due to its military significance as a port and its connections to the Baltic, as well as the Humber estuary being a major landmark for the Luftwaffe so that they could attack other targets like Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool and coalfields in those counties. Any German bombers damaged on their way to these other targets would turn back home with their payload and drop it on Hull to ensure that they had at least hit a target and to make their journey home easier with a lightened load. So to say that there was ill will towards the German people is something of an understatement. My grandmother saw this film and it finally humanised them to her. She had her first child, my uncle John, the first night the Germans bombed Hull. Her husband was conscripted and sent off to fight in Egypt. She spent night after night learning to fear and hate the Germans. Then she saw this and suddenly realised that after all these years she'd been hating scared kids who just wanted to go home.

[@iftikharfaridy2974]

Beautiful words . . May you and your grandma be blessed . .

[@pikiwiki]

So sad. So true

[@NKA23]

Yeah, it would have made it a completely different movie. "The Boat" is about soldiers serving their duty in a submarine. Except the blonde "political officer", no man of the crew is a nazi. They´re just soldiers doing their job. The Captain is even critical towards the nazis and he has his doubts about the whole war as well, but he is pissed of that nobody rescued those English or American civilian sailors. He doesn´t hate them, he hates causing "collateral damage".

[@charles07km83]

The “Nazi” Meaning was a nickname gived to them by allied propaganda because of the NSDAP they were fascism but they were soldiers

[@Dutchmancaptain]

To everyone who thinks war is a solution to problems: watch this scene again and again an remember: THAT is war!

[@urmo345]

war is WAY worse!

[@gentlemanvontweed7147]

@@urmo345 Nonesense. I've been preparing for all out nuclear war since I was a kid by playing COD my entire life. Failed school, live in my mom's basement. I'm ready kick ass.

[@Dolfa_LPH]

@@gentlemanvontweed7147 i have come from three years in the future to say, 💀💀💀

[@Gun_Metal_Grey]

@@Dolfa_LPH he was sarcastic lol

[@carrerau7138]

WW2 solved the Hitler problem.

[@DusanStev996]

The translation sucks

[@ThePerfectRed]

2:33 when he yells into the guys ear from an inch - it is these small realistic details that separate this movie from Hollywood.

[@Aaahrg]

Merkwürdig = Thats funny. WTF!?!

[@F3LDK0CH]

Da sind noch ganz andere Kaliver in der übersetzung ^^ Verdammt nochmal, so viele Stunden = They had 6 hours

[@heros2110]

Funny kann komisch im Sinne von seltsam bedeuten.

[@Don_Camillo]

killmaster9000 : ich glaube fancy oder curious wäre die bessere Übersetzung.

[@mikeromney4712]

thats strange.....

[@robrs8631]

Thats funny ist richtig

[@MoneyTrees2012]

What makes it even more sad is they were so desperate and out of options they were willing to swim to the enemy and become a POW just to get out of their situation

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

Exactly. I have watched this movie four or five times (disclaimer, I'm German) and I always cry during this scene. It's just such a soul-crushing scene to watch.

[@zookatone]

Great movie. One of the few movies I legally bought on DVD. The father of my godfather was captain of the U96. He survived the war. They just let him die in the movie because they considered it a more dramatic ending.

[@Crusaderbois]

That’s is so interesting.

[@CrazySC833]

Echt?

[@Di3cy]

Well they didnt really let him die though right? I mean it is open to interpretation... And considering there are 2 more books after "das boot" i doubt the KaLeun is dead

[@TexasChilliMassacre]

A friend of my mother served on U96 too.

[@zt76831]

The original 293-minute version was, by far, the best (if you can sit through five hours of film, that is).

[@jde-jj1lu]

I can't find it

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

@@jde-jj1lu it's the original Mini-Series version

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

The longer the better!

[@sdietri22]

Submarines had no room for survivors. A brutal but necessary action. War is ugly and cruel.

[@taras3702]

Yes, and it turns people into monsters. That is why so many who have been through a war cannot adjust to a normal life, ever again. Civilians as well as soldiers.

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

Sometimes they would give them water and their position if they were in life rafts

[@RpunktBpunkt-v1c]

Google for Laconia. 1942. That incident led to the Laconia Order.

[@OroborusFMA]

I do not understand why they would resurface when they just saw a destroyer. Or why they would use a precious torpedo on a ship that was a clear write-off already.

[@Antropologopt]

They didn't resurface when saw a destroyer. The submerge to hide and escape the the destroyer. Until the radar became normal series fitting, the tactic was night surface attack and escape, under the cover of the night. The film does gives the full moon menace, plus the detection from an escort for the scenes ahead. The final part was to confirm a sinking. Even a ship was completely write-off, if not sunk, it didn't count in terms of ships destroyed. It was normal to destroy or finish a ship (normally with the deck gun) after an attack, if the the torpedoes didn't manage to sunk it.

[@Ships_are_cool]

​@@Antropologoptto be fair Germany and German u-boats would not just let any merchant ship go those things are slow and added the fact that carrying tons of supplies it's going to be a bit more slower. So either the crew of the destroyer would sink a single ship and then leave while the majority of a freaking convoy would leave or the little more probable explanation the German U-boat would probably try and catch up with the other merchant ships.

[@Karl37112]

Some people might ask, why they weren't picked up. First of all, there wasn't sufficient room for added personal. But most of all was the Laconia-Order from Admiral Karl Dönitz. Before the U-96 shipped out (submarine of the movie), there was another u-boat, which sunk and took the survivors of the british ship 'Laconia' which transported british civilians, free-polish-army troops and italian POW's. The result: An american bomber, dropped a bomb onto the submarine while the submarine had the red-cross on the tower, still transporting civilian survivors and the local allies forces were aware lf the civilians on board. They still bombed it, due to the submarine still being a dangerous warship, so a threat to allied forces. So the U-Boat Administration by Karl Dönitz, gave out the order to all submarines: That no survivors/prisoners of the allied are to be taking into the U-Boat or shall not receive any aid consistent of food/medicine etc. They were supposed to hang out to drown. If this order wouldn't have been given, the captain would have given it all a second thought.

[@bauerwilhelm]

The "Laconia-Befehl" was given September 1942 but the movie takes place in 1941!

[@BrokenAngelWings]

@@bauerwilhelm The Thing is that the Type VII barley had enough place for it's own crew. How should it have rescued than the survivors?

[@surprisedchar2458]

Das Boot takes place almost one full year before the Laconia was sunk. So no, the captain made a choice between the dying sailors and his own men. No doubt a hard one to make, but seeing just how crammed the u-boat already was, I can see why he made that choice.

[@yzdatabase4175]

you think US subs picked up Jap survivors?

[@AnimePrayer]

Just imagine you drive as a sailor on a freighter in a convoy and the ship in front of you get hit and sunk by a torpedo. The crew jumps overboard and begging for help while you pass them, looking like from a high wall of steel down on them and you are unable to help, because stopping means death. Or you pass a disabled ship. Both, ship and seaman, become smaller and smaller until they are out of sight. You know they are doomed and when you hear a bang from far away you definitely know they sink now to the bottom of the ocean. On land you can crawl to get to a secure place. But not on the sea. And you live with this fear and incertitude minute by minute, day by day and weeks by weeks!

[@jojoanggono3229]

I'm sure those sailors pray a lot when enroute from Canada to England and vice versa. The fright of those torpedo going to wreck their ship is constantly in their mind.

[@vorlonb3]

I quite agree with the poster of this its easily one of the most heart wrenching and accurate portrayals of life under the water. The 5 hour version is even more damming and gripping.

[@dandyjesus]

Dieses unterdrückte Glucksen von Martin Semmelrogge bei 4:21.