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Das Boot-The Director's Cut 
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Sunday, 16 January 2005


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Content Grade: A
Sound Grade: A
Extras Grade: n/a
Picture Grade: A

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http://www.cthv.com/ Directed By Wolfgang Petersen Columbia-Tristar-$29.95 Dolby Digital 5.1 in German, English, Dolby 2.0 English, Spanish Widescreen Format-1:85.1 209 minutes-Color-1985 Rated R for war violence, adult language

Review

Originally this movie was a mini series for German television and was over 6 hours in length before being made into a 2 hour feature film. This DVD restores over an hour of that cut 6 hour footage which Petersen chose to make the ultimate "Das Boot" feature. It is a disc packed with extra features and was painstakingly restored for DVD.
This DVD is Wolfgang Petersen's epic drama of a submarine commander and his crew as they battle "the enemy" in the Atlantic during World War II. While the sub is obviously German, with the exception of a couple of of reference to "our glorious leader" (made with sarcasm and resentment), the script is entirely apolitical in nature. The boat doesn't even have a swaztika painted on it. These are simply sailors with a war mission to accomplish. Characters are brought to life by Petersen's direction and you get to know all of the crew and their human problems. The acting is superb, headed by Jurgen Prochnow as the U-Boat Captain. Petersen caught the atmosphere of life on a U-boat, with its dark lighting and cramped quarters. The camera moves through the sub's openings like another crew member.

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Extras

There is a making of featurette, directors commentary throughout the film and subtitles in English , Spanish, and French along with the audio options mentioned.

Summary

A high quality disc, superb cast, a great story, a top director and loaded with extras. It has excellent replay value and with addition of over an hour of extra footage, a new soundtrack remix this is one of the best values of any DVD disc today. Buy it!

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