Das Boot (1981) Original Soundtrack

(1981) Music by Klaus Doldinger!!!!! The film is the story of a single patrol of one World War II U-boat, U-96, and its crew. 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. The story is based on an amalgamation of the exploits of the real U-96, a Type VIIC-class U-boat commanded by Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, one of Germany’s top U-boat “tonnage aces“ during the war. One of Petersen’s goals was to guide the audience through “a journey to the edge of the mind“ (the film’s German tagline Eine Reise ans Ende des Verstandes), showing “what war is all about.“