History Film / DasBoot

--> '''Machinist"' (while walking past the Chief Engineer): We waste a lot of fuel eh?

--> '''Chief Engineer'''(under his breath): Blöde Sau! (stupid Pig/Asshole)

** (During their assault on a destroyer)
** Machinist (while passing along the Chief Engineer): We waste a lot of fuel eh?
** Chief Engineer(under his breath): Blöde Sau! (stupid Pig)

** To be fair, the Boatswain was ''pissed'' and demanded to know the culprit in no uncertain terms. Werner, mortally embarrassed, beat it out of the torpedo room, after which you got a SmashCut, so you never really knew if he found out who did it or what was done to them. However in extended versions of the film while the other salors went back to work, you can see the Boatswain being silently amused about the incident after Werner stormed out, hinting that he was just putting up a show.

** This may well be caused by the fact that the U-Boat service had to receive so many replacements (to replenish casualties they sustained which was growing to such massive amount by 1943), as the service loses men (especially old experienced ones) they will tend to get replaced by newer ones that are either heavily indoctrinated (due to being young enough to have gone through the mandatory Hitler Youth in the 1930s for instance) or more entrenched with the Nazi ideology. During the earlier part of the war, they probably are as apolitical as the other Kriegsmarine aspect, but as the staggering casualties mount, they get slowly refilled with men who are more aligned with the Nazi. In addition, Admiral Karl Dönitz, the commander of the U-boat fleet and later supreme commander of the navy, was a staunch supporter of Hitler, to the point that he was named Hitler's successor at the end of the war.

** To be fair, the chief of the watch was ''pissed'' and demanded to know the culprit in no uncertain terms. Werner, mortally embarrassed, beat it out of the torpedo room, after which you got a SmashCut, so you never really knew if he found out who did it or what was done to them.

* DownerEnding: A pretty extreme example - there really wasn't a much stronger way for the efforts of the submarine's crew (and the entire German navy really) to be rendered totally useless.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The character of Phillip Thomsen is very loosely based on Heinz Hirsacker, the real life commander of U-572. Hirsacker was not as noble or brave as Thomsen is portrayed in the film and was never awarded a combat decoration for his U-Boat service, much less the Knight's Cross. He was further accused in 1942 of cowardice before the enemy after repeatedly avoiding enemy ships and retreating to base at the first sign of pursuit. Hirsacker was convicted by a court martial and sentenced to death, but committed suicide in 1943 before the sentence could be carried out.

* SkewedPriorities: In the Petersen Production where Der Alte constantly criticizes his men every time they don't adress him properly when giving a status report while they desperatedly scramble to keep the boat from sinking. Downplayed in that this may be his way of keeping them from panicking and becoming disorganized.

* SkewedPriorities: In the Petersen Production where Der Alte constantly disparages his men during every battle for not adressing him proper when giving a status report while they desperatedly scramble to keep the boat from sinking. Downplayed in that this may be his way of keeping them from panicking and becoming disorganized.

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* SpiritualAntithesis: This film is given one with the 2020 film, ''Film/{{Greyhound}}'', where an Allied naval convoy endures the attacks of German U-Boats. While it doesn't have quite the intense downbeat tone of this film, ''Greyhound'' shows that enduring U-boat attacks on the surface without air cover is no picnic.

''Das Boot'' (''"The Boat"'' in German) is a 1981 West German war film ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 1973 novel of the same name]] by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perils-ridden patrol of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] {{sub|story}}marine, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940) U-96]], in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSevenSeas Atlantic Ocean]]. It is directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Creator/JurgenProchnow as TheCaptain (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''), with a soundtrack by Music/KlausDoldinger. The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic atmosphere in a World War II era sub. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.

* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: The captain of the supply ship ''Weser'' awkwardly assumes the young, clean shaved and [[SharpDressedMan uniformed]] 1WO is the Captain among a bunch of jaded and bearded sea-wolves.

** This may well be caused by the fact that the U-Boat service had to receive so many replacements (to replenish casualties they sustained which was growing to such massive amount by 1943), as the service loses men (especially old experienced ones) they will tend to get replaced by newer ones that are either heavily indoctrinated (due to being young enough to have gone through the mandatory Hitler Youth in the 1930s for instance) or more entrenched with the Nazi ideology. During the earlier part of the war, they probably are as apolitical as the other Kriegsmarine aspect, but as the staggering casualties mount, they get slowly refilled with men who are more aligned with the Nazi.

* AdaptationalNameChange: In the book, the eponymous U-boat was called ''UA'', which was a foreign U-boat the Germans had built for the Turkish Navy but seized for use in the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of the war. All other boats mentioned are given anonymous names like ''UF'' and ''UX''; this was a deliberate choice by the author to protect certain details. The film designated the boat U-96.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The stiff 1WO comes off less callous and more sympathetic in the mini-series when he reveals his fiancée died in an aerial raid on Cologne only weeks before the start of the patrol.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Everyone in the sub is utterly horrified at discovering that one of the ships they hit, which is still floating after several hours and is on fire, is still full of Allied sailors who weren't rescued by the rest of the convoy and are desperately jumping into the ocean and pleading the U-Boat for help.

* NoseArt: Type 6: The Laughing Sawfish. Historically it was the emblem of the 9th U-Boat Flotilla, of which the historical U-96 was a member of.

''Das Boot'' (''"The Boat"'' in German) is a 1981 West German war film ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 1973 novel of the same name]] by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perilous patrol of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] {{sub|story}}marine, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940) U-96]], in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSevenSeas Atlantic Ocean]]. It is directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Creator/JurgenProchnow as TheCaptain (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''), with a soundtrack by Music/KlausDoldinger. The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic atmosphere in a World War II era sub. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.

''Das Boot'' (''"The Boat"'' in German) is a 1981 West German war film ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 1973 novel of the same name]] by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perilous patrol of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] {{sub|story}}marine, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940) U-96]], in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSevenSeas Atlantic Ocean]]. It is directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Creator/JurgenProchnow as TheCaptain (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''), with a soundtrack by Music/KlausDoldinger. The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the [[SubStory claustrophobic atmosphere]] in a World War II era sub. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.

''Das Boot'' (''"The Boat"'' in German) is a 1981 West German war film ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 1973 novel of the same name]] by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perilous patrol of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] {{sub|story}}marine, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940) U-96]]. It is directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Creator/JurgenProchnow as TheCaptain (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''), with a soundtrack by Music/KlausDoldinger. The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the [[SubStory claustrophobic atmosphere]] in a World War II era sub. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.

''Das Boot'' (''"The Boat"'' in German) is a 1981 West German war film ([[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the 1973 novel of the same name]] by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the crew of the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] {{sub|story}}marine [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940) U-96]]. It is directed by Creator/WolfgangPetersen and stars, among renowned German stage actors, Creator/JurgenProchnow as TheCaptain (commonly called ''Kaleun'', short for ''Kapitänleutnant'', or ''der Alte / the Old Man''), with a soundtrack by Music/KlausDoldinger. The movie is generally praised for its realistic portrayal of the [[SubStory claustrophobic atmosphere]] in a World War II era sub. As noted by many visitors to Bavaria Studios, the interior set of the sub is actually even more claustrophobic than comes across on the screen.

** {{Justified|Trope}} ForegoneConclusion, for those aware of the original book being written by a surviving eyewitness.