One of the best foreign films, one of the best WWII films and definitely the best submarine movie of all time, Das Boot premiered in the U.S. February 10, 1981.
The German film featured a submarine crew operating in the Atlantic Ocean during the war and depicted the men in a sympathetic manner. Politics, enemies and their mission all took backseats to the issues they faced every day. The threat of being discovered and destroyed. Living in such close quarters where privacy is just a word. Returning safe. Das Boot did not glorify Naziism or the Third Reich.
I saw this with my German class when I was in college, and I've only seen it once since but it still remains to be a masterpiece. Definitely, one everybody should see.
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