It is rare to see not only an emotional movie, but also a rational and 'male' one. Guiding through the different and ambivalent characters, the visitor's hand is been given to the actors' capabilities: the singer Herbert Groenemeyer (Lt. Werner), the Hollywood actor J. Prochnow (Cpt-Lt. / "Kaloin"). The Radio-technician Heinz Hoenig has become Germany's most popular actor in the 1990s. Claude-Oliver Rudolph (chauvinist machine-room soldier) makes international movies (f.e. James Bond). Hubertus Bengsch (Nazi officer, 1-WO) is one of the most famous synchronisator in the german-speaking area. - The componist GOLDINGER, a famous jazz-musician, composed other musics afterwards for TV. The director Petersen's further possibilities are shown in "The storm" (2000). And when will the Duo Petersen / Eichinger cooperate together again ? One missing part of the story is the peoples time between leaving the Atlantic Ocean and entering home harbour. The big TV-movies add the capital movie, for the interested (ca. 360 min.).
Review of Das Boot
