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Das Boot, Columbia Pictures presents a director's cut restoration from Twin Bros. Productions ; a Bavaria Film production ; a film by Wolfgang Petersen ; written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen ; produced by Günter Rohrbach

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MPAA rating: R; for some war violence and brief language ;, CHV rating: 14A

Das Boot

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Columbia Pictures presents a director's cut restoration from Twin Bros. Productions ; a Bavaria Film production ; a film by Wolfgang Petersen ; written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen ; produced by Günter Rohrbach

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It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic' to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. This story of one U-Boat crew details how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while trying to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served

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