Das Boot (The Boat) (Film) Review

Released: 17th September 1981
RRP: TBC
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
Rating: R
Running Time: 145

Todd McCarthy (Variety) said:

"Agripping, impressively detailed account of one harrowing voyage by a German U-boat during World War II."

Geoff Andrew (Time Out) said:

"Petersen's shooting style displays a breathtaking, if impersonal and faintly academic, virtuosity comparable to that of Lean or Coppola."

Janet Maslin (New York Times) said:

"Das Boot is yet another moving testament to the wastefulness of battle."

Neil Jeffries (Empire Magazine) said:

"Masterful."

Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) said:

"Wolfgang Petersen's direction is an exercise in pure craftsmanship."

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Completion of the Burma Railway

17th October 1943

The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, is a 415 kilometres railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma Campaign. Forced labour was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian labourers and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war worked on the railway. On 17 October 1943, the two sections of the line met about 18 km south of the Three Pagodas Pass at Konkuita. Most of the POWs were then transported to Japan.

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