Best Films set on Submarines

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Morning Departure, 1950. Based on a true incident. Great film.

 

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Yes Das Boot no question.

The author of the original book, who was a German submarine officer in WW2, just died so they just screened again it (last week I think it was) on German TV and very good it was too.

The original film was apparently 6 hours and they had to cut it a lot to make a normal film about it.

It won an Oscar.

The film was an edited version of a TV series I think.

 

[weltweit]

The film was an edited version of a TV series I think.

Aha .. that might make more sense ..

 

[Reno]

The film was an edited version of a TV series I think.

It was a film, but there also was a longer (and superior) version that later got released as a mini-series.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

It was a film, but there also was a longer (and superior) version that later got released as a mini-series.

no, you've got that the wrong way round - it was originally a TV series before being edited down to a feature. Scanner is correct.

 

[jodal]

no, you've got that the wrong way round - it was originally a TV series before being edited down to a feature. Scanner is correct.

Great thread.

Das Boot was first a film (released in cinemas in Germany), then a TV series (for German TV) then that got turned into Das Boot: The Directors Cut.

(Edited for clarity)

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

from imdb

Because the original TV mini-series was severely criticized in Germany for portraying World War II Germans sympathetically, the producer greeted the first American showing of the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival with great trepidation.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

but I stand corrected if it was first released as a film in German cinemas

 

[jodal]

from imdb



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot

"Several versions of the film and video releases have been made: The first version to be released was the theatrical 150-minute (2½-hour) cut, released to theatres in Germany in 1981, and in the United States in 1982. It was nominated for six Academy Awards (Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and Writing). Much more footage had been shot for the film than was shown in the theatrical version, and in 1985, a TV miniseries of Das Boot was shown on German and Austrian television. Aired in three parts, it had a runtime of almost five hours. Petersen then oversaw the editing of six hours of film, from which was distilled Das Boot: The Director's Cut, 216 minutes long (3 hours, 36 minutes), released in 1997, which combines the action sequences seen in the feature-length version with character-development scenes contained in the mini-series."

 

[Reno]

no, you've got that the wrong way round - it was originally a TV series before being edited down to a feature. Scanner is correct.

I grew up in Germany and remember when it got released as a film. It was a big deal at the time so I really wouldn't forget. My PE teacher played one of the marines (he didn't have a speaking part, but was seen in the background a lot). It didn't get shown as a TV series till several years later.

 

[Andy the Don]

The Enemy Below http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050356/
Run Silent, Run Deep http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052151/
K19: The Widowmaker http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267626/
Operation Petticoat http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053143/
On The Beach http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/