#Dasboot vs taisa movie

They often get (rightfully) ridiculed, in book as in movie, the IWO is a stuck-up, blasé cliché Nazi - just watch him sit in the back during his lessons for the cadet, dictating propaganda, while the others roll their eyes in obvious disgust. On the other side, the brash, young freshly baked officers, directly from the HJ, the Nazis. On the one side, the good guys, who are just doing their job (which they secretly abhor, in the book the captain is often portrayed as someone who hates destroying ships, and facets of this come through in the movie), who don't have much respect for the Führer and his lap dog, BdU Dönitz (yet still do their dirty work, and even get frustrated at how ineffectively they were led - after all, there might be English ships coming through, while they're in the wrong sector!)

#Dasboot vs taisa movie

The film, as well as the book it's based on, from the beginning make it clear that there is a big rift between the 'old guard' officers and the new, ideologically formed officers, personified in the movie by the party-line toeing first officer, a Volksdeutscher from Mexico (it's always the convertites.). Hell, I wanted to become a submariner myself when I was a wee wehraboo playing with miniature soldiers and building model Tigers, Panthers and Stukas. I also have problems with this movie, and since we're on /sws here, take it all cum grano salis. The turn of the tides for the hunters in 1941/2. The other great thing it does, it gives an amazing insight into what life was like on a U-boat in WWII, the long weeks of boredom, the frustration, the helplessness under water when the destroyers attack, the elation of the chase and the sinking. The use of a full-size replica set, steady cam, the soundtrack (or carefully used lack of it) are superb, and it has earned every award it received.

It certainly is a great movie from a purely cineastical point of view. What a coincidence - I just watched part of the movie last night while going to bed!ĭas Boot is an interesting movie.