DAS BOOT
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)
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Aero Theatre | Wolfgang Petersen Remembered
Director’s Cut!
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- RELEASED IN: 1981
- 209 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: WOLFGANG PETERSEN
ABOUT THE FILM:
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. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. “Das Boot” is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.
This is the restored, 209-minute director’s cut of Wolfgang Petersen’s harrowing and claustrophobic U-boat thriller, which was theatrically rereleased in 1997. Originally made as a five-hour miniseries, this version devotes more time to getting to know the crew before they and their stoic captain (Jürgen Prochnow) get aboard their U-boat and find themselves stranded at the bottom of the sea.
FORMAT: 35mm
DISTRIBUTOR: Sony Entertainment
