Das Boot (1981)

Das Boot rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.4/10· 286K votes

Rotten Tomatoes98%

Metacritic85%

TMDb8.082/10· 3K votes

With 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.4/10 on IMDb and 85/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Cast of Das Boot

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  Jürgen Prochnow

  as Lieutenant 'Der Alte'

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  Herbert Grönemeyer

  as Lieutenant Werner

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  Klaus Wennemann

  as Chief Engineer

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  Hubertus Bengsch

  as First Watch Officer

• 

  Martin Semmelrogge

  as Second Watch Officer

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  Bernd Tauber

  as Kriechbaum

• 

  Erwin Leder

  as Johann 'Das Gespenst'

• 

  Martin May

  as Ullmann

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  Heinz Hoenig

  as Hinrich

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  Uwe Ochsenknecht

  as Chief Bosun

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  Claude-Oliver Rudolph

  as Ario

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  Jan Fedder

  as Pilgrim

Das Boot facts

Budget

$14M

Box office

$85M

Our take on Das Boot

Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 epic crams you inside a German U-boat in WWII, where the hunters quickly become the hunted in suffocating metal corridors. Tense, sweaty and morally complex, it humanises its crew while never glorifying the war that traps them — a benchmark of claustrophobic realism. If its unbearable submarine tension gripped you, seek out confined-space war dramas and survival thrillers where the enemy is the dark, the depth and the wait.