U-Boot 96

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In order to further sell their nautical purgatory, the actors in Das Boot were discouraged from bein [...]	D
American director John Sturges was initially called by Edward R. Pressman to make the film. But he w [...]	D
A number of elements had to come together to create the illusion of a seaworthy German U-Boat, inclu [...]	D
A sixth officer mentioned in the novel, and omitted from the film, is the 2nd Engineer who joins the [...]	D
At the time of its release, this was the most successful foreign language at the US box office ever.	D
The sailors who urinate into the road are actually spraying water through small hoses.	D
To help his actors convey the claustrophobic conditions found on a real U-boat, director Wolfgang Pe [...]	D
Wolfgang Petersen supervised the director's cut of the film around the same time he was making Air F [...]	D
Mel Kutbay, one of the foley artists, explained in the 2021 documentary: the horrifying, crushing so [...]	D
When the submarine leaves port at La Rochelle, all modern craft had to be evacuated from the area, w [...]	D
At the end of the film, when a group of bombers attacks La Rochelle, a group of heavy bombers breaks [...]	D
The dance in a banana skirt done by a crew member to entertain his mates is in imitation of Josephin [...]	D
Vigo is a coastal city in the Galician province in northern Spain. Two U-boats, U-506 and U-523, are [...]	D
While shooting scale models in the Northern Sea, filming was disturbed by doves landing on the subma [...]	D
To simulate the storm in the Atlantic, a model of the tower was splashed with water from a large tan [...]	D
Depth-charge explosion effects were created by detonating small explosives in a 5m-deep tank and fil [...]	D
Lothar G. Buchheim was incensed when he first saw the scene of one crew member dancing like Josephin [...]	D
The submarine models were also used in I predatori dell'arca perduta (1981).	D
Originally filmed in German, all of the major actors could speak English. When the movie was dubbed [...]	D
Lothar-GÃ¼nther Buchheim fell out with the director, who refused to let him write the screenplay. [...]	D
Was originally to be directed by Don Siegel for German producers.	D
Unusually for a major motion picture, was filmed largely in sequence.	D
The film omits references to a scene in the novel where Lieutenant Werner reads some of the First Of [...]	D
For interior shots of the submarine, the production used a full-scale steel replica in the largest s [...]	D
The human figures on the 35 foot model were modified Barbie (or rather Ken) dolls.	D
The character of Phillip Thomsen is very loosely based on Heinz Hirsacker, the real life commander o [...]	D
Given that the convoy is attacked under a full moon, and after this, the crew expected to be given l [...]	D
The only film that year to be Oscar nominated for Best Director, but not Best Picture.	D
Production began in earnest in the Helgoland archipelago in the North Sea. As art director GÃ¶tz W [...]	D
Rutger Hauer was offered to play the Captain, but turned it down to do Blade Runner (1982).	D
Wolfgang Petersen's wife, Maria, came up with who was to be killed in the film's conclusion.	D
Before the screenplay was even finished, two steel replicas of a Type VIIC boat had already been bui [...]	D
When Werner first comes aboard the U-Boat, he is given an oxygen mask along with a survival gear kit [...]	D
Germany maintained its unrestricted submarine warfare was in response to the Royal Navy's blockade, [...]	D
At the time, this received the widest release of any other film in West Germany.	D
Another actor was originally cast as Thomsen, but quit not long after filming began. The shot of Tho [...]	D
The poem Lt. Werner cites when the submarine stuck in the Strait of Gibraltar is "Schlacht - Das Ma� [...]	D
The movie was shot silent because of exaggerated camera noise in the submarine interiors. All German [...]	D
After the war Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the real captain of U-96, was captain of the "Otto Hahn" [...]	D
The only surviving class IX U-Boat is in a Chicago museum, so a full-size floating replica of the ex [...]	D
This became the most expensive German movie ever made, with production costs of 31 million DM. Profu [...]	D
Scenes were shot in sequence so that the growth of beards would be entirely natural, although a few [...]	D
The picture was nominated for six Academy Awards which was at the time the highest number of Oscar n [...]	D
The names of the Captain, Chief Engineer, 1st Watch Officer, and 2nd Watch Officer are never given.	D
The U-505, a type IX U-boat similar to the one in the film, however it was much larger and designed [...]	D
The cast was deliberately kept indoors continually during the shooting period in order to look as pa [...]	D
The scenes with the 35 foot (1/6th scale) model were filmed at 55 frames per second.	D
The Captain awards include the Knight's Cross which is worn around his neck and the U-boat War Badge [...]	D
the horrifying, crushing sound of the submarine plunging deeper and deeper into the ocean to avoid d [...]	D
Final film of Rita Cadillac.	D
A miniature submarine was used for scenes of the submarine from outside. It was steered by a diver i [...]	D
The only remaining U-boot of the VII-C class wasn't used in the movie because it is a technical monu [...]	D
The claustrophobic interior shots owe much of their power to the work of cinematographer and chronic [...]	D
The film was accused of exaggerating the extent to which U-Boat crewmen and officers were anti-Nazi.	D
Nearly every day for over a month, Ludwig Huppmann was stuffed inside an 11-meter model submarine. T [...]	D
For the scene when the boat returns to La Rochelle, most of the extras in and around the sub pen wer [...]	D
The real captain of U-96, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, joined the Navy in 1931 and served as Naviga [...]	D
Three scale models were built for special effects work. The first, a 35 foot remote controlled model [...]	D
The film's opening prologue states: "La Rochelle, France. Autumn, 1941. Germany's vaunted U-boat fle [...]	D
The original German language version grossed more than the English language one at the US box office [...]	D
In the scene where the radioman tunes the radio and, when music is heard, the Captain screams at him [...]	D
The submarine does not actually engage an enemy target (not counting the abortive run on a destroyer [...]	D
Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare in both world wars was in response to the Royal Navy's bloc [...]	D
The bulk of the film's $15 million budget was spent on constructing U-boats. Specifications for the [...]	D
The scene in which the navigation officer takes an astronomical sight using a sextant is very accura [...]	D
Some of the model sub scenes were shot in a small custom-built pond in the back lot of the Bavaria F [...]	D
This is one of the few foreign language films referred to on the American market by its original for [...]	D
La Spezia, a city in the Liguria region of northern Italy at the head of La Spezia Gulf, is one of t [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Special cameras were developed using gyroscopes. These were smaller and more practical for the cramp [...]	D
Near the end of production, when the filmmakers had relocated to France to shoot at the abandoned Na [...]	D
The full-scale model was little more than a hollow shell with an engine, and could be used only in c [...]	D
To get one particular interior shot, a section of the model's wall was removed. However, Wolfgang Pe [...]	D
The real first watch officer of U-96 ("Number One") was Gerhard Groth, who was born in 1917 and immi [...]	D
Steadicams were not yet in use during the production of the movie. In order to get the fast tracking [...]	D
The claustrophobic interior shots owe much of their power to the work of cinematographer and chronic [...]	D
The film, as well as the book by Lothar G. Buchheim on which it's based, are both loosely adapted fr [...]	D
Jost Vacano shot primarily on a handheld 35mm camera that he co-designed with ARRI. Their creation w [...]	D
When Wolfgang Petersen set out to cut down the German TV mini series version of the film to the 3 ho [...]	D
Several additional scenes were scripted based on the original "Das Boot" novel, but in the end were [...]	D
In the scene in the La Rochelle bar, Otto Sander was really drunk.	D
A number of elements had to come together to create the illusion of a seaworthy German U-Boat, inclu [...]	D
The emblem on the U-96's conning tower is the Laughing Sawfish, the emblem of the 9th flotilla from [...]	D
Klaus Wennemann, who portrays the Chief Engineer, was forty one years old when the film was produced [...]	D
When this was originally mooted as a German-US co-production, Robert Redford and Paul Newman were bo [...]	D
The original TV mini-series was severely criticized in Germany for portraying World War II Germans s [...]	D

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