Das Boot (1981)
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen · Cinematography by Jost Vacano
R149 min57 frames
DramaHistoryWar
On land they dreamed of being heroes. Beneath the sea they pray to be survivors.
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What is Das Boot about?
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Das Boot is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. An adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film is set during World War II and follows the German submarine U-96 and her crew, as they set out on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country.
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What does the cinematography of Das Boot look like?
Sampled across 56 frames, the coverage of Das Boot leans on medium shots (57% of the sample) and close-ups (21%). Cinematographer Jost Vacano keeps 75% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 84% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 70% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Das Boot (1981) are #332e2b, #131111, #261311, #45362e, #54524f, #6f706f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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