“Das Boot” quotes
(1981)
Wolfgang Petersen
directed this movie
in 1981
Title Das Boot
Year 1981
Director Wolfgang Petersen
Genre Drama, Thriller, War, Adventure
Year 1981
Director Wolfgang Petersen
Genre Drama, Thriller, War, Adventure
Plot – The movie is based on journalist G. Buchheim's report, who embarked in 1941 on the Nazi submarine 'U-boats 96' tasked to sink US convoys. After endless days of sailing, the submarine intercepts a convoy and is attacked by a destroyer. Once repaired the damages, the submarine is ordered to reach La Spezia, in Italy, but it almost sinks in the Strait of Gibraltar due to an allied aircrafts' attack. Back to the air base of La Rochelle, the U-boats 96 is destroyed by allied planes.
All actors – Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Heinz Hoenig, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Jan Fedder
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“- Captain of the 'Weser': What's it like down there, in a submarine?
- Der Leitende: It's... quiet.”“- Ario: They're... they're running! I think they're running!
- Der Leitende: Who says you can't make something out of nothing?”- Captain: It's been 15 hours. He'll never do it. I'm sorry.
- Lt. Werner: They made us all train for this day. "To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland". Oh God, all just empty words. It's not the way they said it was, is it? I just want someone to be with. The only thing I feel is afraid.“They won't catch us this time! Not this time! They haven't spotted us! No, they're all snoring in their bunks! Or, you know what? They're drinking at the bar, celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!”
“- Ullman: We'll have Christmas in ltaly.
- Ario: We've got to get there first!
- Ullman: And so?
- Ario: Gibraltar! Use your brain, you idiot! That strait... It's like the eye of a needle. We'll never slip through there.”“- Pilgrim: Have you got any hairs up your nose?
- Frenssen: Why?
- Pilgrim: I've got some up my ass. Maybe we can tie them together?”“- Johann: It was a mistake. I didn't... It was... It... All of a sudden... As if... It won't ever happen again, sir. You can depend on it. I swear.
- Captain: It's all right, Johann.
- Johann: No court-martial?
- Captain: Get some sleep.”I asked for it. "To be heading into the inexorable... where no mother will care for us... no woman crosses our path... where only reality reigns... with cruelty and grandeur". I was drunk with those words. Well, this is reality.
“- Captain: Phillip, the old bunch is gone. Look at these new heroes. All wind and smoke. Just big mouths.
- Thomsen: Yeah, yeah. They keep together, balls in hand. And the belief in our Führer in their eyes.
- Captain: They will know in time.”“We're going to blow out the water now and see if we can get our rear ends out of the sand. If we make it to the surface, things could still get pretty rough. Traffic's heavy up there. And we have to pray the engines start, so we can get out of this mess. The condition the boat is in, we have got to head straight for La Rochelle. If we make it......” (continue)(continue reading)
“More than 30 freighters! Berthold better not attack now. It's best to stay close and wait until the other boats arrive. For me, there is nothing finer than a submarine... and sailboats. There are no lines more beautiful than that of a sailboat. I sailed on a three-masted schooner once. Wonderful ship. Roomy. It had holds as big as churches!”
“- Captain: Take pictures of the crewreturning, not putting out to sea.
- Lt. Werner: Why?
- Captain: They'll have grown beards by then. It would shame the Tommies to see mere boys give them Hell. Baby faces. Ones that should still suck mama's breast. I feel ancient around these kids, like I'm on some Children's Crusade.”
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