He seems heartless but he clearly only wants the best for his crew. He’s clearly exhausted and he wishes that the war didn’t cause so many young men to waste their lives, but he will serve his country until the very end as he sees it as his duty. The Captain, who is already 30 years old, isn’t enthusiastic about the war. He jokes about the English, but also about the Reich and the war – he’s balanced. He becomes a friend of the Captain and they start a friendship that will develop into a strong bond.
Werner (Herbert Grönemayer) was very interesting because he seems so collected, and so eager to sail and take photos of the crew and the mission at first, but then he changes his attitude and doesn’t really care about propaganda photos anymore. The story deals with the psychological consequences on the lives of the millions of young officers and sailors who worked under the water, and gives a brilliant and truthful insight into the different personal problems, fears and feelings that those young men had to put aside in order to fight a war in which many of them didn’t truly believe. The character of Lt. Werner will soon realise that life is actually quite different on board a U-Boot submarine – he becomes isolated except for the young Senior Cadet Ullmann (Martin May), who has is own personal story to tell: he is in love with a French girl, who is pregnant. Werner seems eager to sail and write his thoughts about the lives of those aboard the U-boot with the intention of using it to further Nazi propaganda. Werner (Herbert Grönemayer) meets the Captain, Kapitänleutnant (Jürgen Prochnow) of the U-boot 96 and his crew. It all starts with a U-Boot crew at the Rochelle, in a French Casino right before sailing. Werner (Herbert Grönemayer) who meets the members of the crew as he’s about to sail as a war correspondent.Ĭast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemayer, Klaus Wennemann.ĭas Boot is set in 1941 and is an adaptation of the 1973 fictional novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Plot: The story unfolds around the U-Boot 96’s crew and is told by Lt.
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