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It is a different vision of the war scenario around World War II and became one of the most acclaimed of the 80s.
War conflict is one of the hardest themes to portray in cinema, so due to its thematic and visual complexity, many films in this genre have taken the cake. Films such as 1917, All Quiet on the Front or Dunkirk address what happens on the front line of action and have been released with great success in Hollywood, but Outside of this space there is another film that in 1981 became an epic product with a different narrative twist in the genre.
Graduated The boat In its original language, the film we are referring to was directed by the German Wolfgang Petersen and although it has a duration of just over 3 and a half hours, it was one of the highest grossing films in the German country. The submarine in Spanish, went down in history as one of the great classics of European cinema.
The story follows the “everyday” life of a group of young soldiers belonging to the crew of a German submarine right in the middle of World War II. In this context, the crew undertakes a secret mission in which they will have to undergo a harsh coexistence in the depths of the sea.
Captain Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (Jürgen Prochnow) is the head of this project in which Less trained recruits face the boredom, filth and terror of this claustrophobic environment as they sink enemy ships and withstand constant attacks.
Petersen also directed the unforgettable adaptation of The Neverending Story, becoming one of the German filmmakers who achieved fame in Hollywood in the 1980s, but his greatest film success is precisely The Submarine. The film was nominated for a total of 6 Oscars in 1983, including in the Best Picture category, and although it generated heated debates regarding the plot, critics and the general public highly approved the project.
The Washington Post For example, he called this film “one of the richest and most humanistic descriptions of war life” since it The submarine available for rent through Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, is told from the perspective of German soldiers. As in films like The Pianist or what the upcoming premiere of Civil War aims to do with respect to society, this approach made – and continues to make – the public reflect on the psychological and emotional impact of war on human beings.
