Hösten 1941. 43 unga sjömän ombord på den tyska ubåten U-96 går ut i kriget mot England under befäl av en stridslysten 30-årig kapten. Under de kommande åren blir de blodtörstiga jägare, som utan förvarning kan utrota tusentals sjömän - men blir också ett skräckslaget byte, fångat i en kista av stål djupt ner under havets yta. Ingen film har tidigare fångat krigets spänning och fasor med sådan styrka. Das Boot blev nominerad till inte mindre än sex Oscar, bland annat "Bästa Film", och kan i denna version verkligen visas som det tekniska och berättarmässiga mästerverk det är.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic – their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea a cat-an-mouse game begins, where the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the depth charges that explode around it. Written by a survivor of the U-boat fleet – of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned – Das Boot is a psychological drama merciless in its intensity, and a classic novel of World War II