First of all, this movie is so damn long; 4 hours of sweaty, beardy Germans trapped under the sea in their little submarine with no escape... breaking the film down like that makes it seem extremely homo-erotic, thats not the sort of film I would usually go for I swear! This is my focus film for my war film research project and I began watching the film with the pre-judgment of all the characters being Nazi raving Hitler kiss-asses right down to the core. But in matter of fact the submariners are just your average sort of people like you and me (not taking into account the massive balls these guys have to live under sea) this is the appeal and mainly the point of the film, because it is German made with a German cast and a German director, It makes you realise that the regular German servicemen were in fact human beings too, however much western film shows their murderous side.
This is exactly the film to argue my case in point; because the Germans had near to no money by the end of the war the allied countries took the opportunity to show all Germans as being an uptight anti Semitist nation, which they were not. It is a very well directed film as well as very well performed film, not bad considering I have never seen any of the actors in it before! They must have been Germanys finest because there wasn’t a single piece of bad acting at all. When the pressure was on the submarine the pressure was on you and a sense claustrophobia lay present throughout. A very intense piece of cinema, but I would not recommend it due to its length, I had to take 2 breaks during this! 2!
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