The Boat
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
The most convincing war movie ever made.
Wolfgang Petersen's direction is an exercise in pure craftsmanship.
A great movie just got greater, thanks to this thorough restoration.
You emerge from this experience rather like a returning U-boat crewman -- drained, blinking in the light, but oddly triumphant.
Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time, it never lets us forget we're riding aboard a giant, primitive tin can, a hunk of industrial machinery that mingles the illusion of omnipotence with the reality of a floating prison cell.
Best Cinematography
Academy Awards (1983)
Best Foreign Language Film
Awards of the Japanese Academy (1983)
Best Foreign Language Film
BAFTA Awards (1983)
Best Cinematography (Kamerapreis)
Bavarian Film Awards (1982)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Directors Guild of America (1983)
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