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. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release (1981) and a TV miniseries (1985). Also, several different home video versions, as well as a director's cut (1997) supervised by Petersen, have been released.
Wolfgang Petersen was a German filmmaker. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), and Poseidon (2006).
Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.
Helmut Käutner was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käutner is relatively unknown outside of Germany, although he is considered one of the best filmmakers in German film history. He was one of the most influential film directors of German post-war cinema and became known for his sophisticated literary adaptations.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Manfred Krug was a German actor, singer and author.
Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott, A.S.C. was an American special effects expert, cinematographer and cameraman.
Werner Schroeter was a German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work and on German cinema at large.
Egon Monk was a German actor, director and author.
Peter Steuger is a German-born cinematographer who has worked mostly on German films after a start in Icelandic cinema. He was nominated for a Golden Frog Award for his cinematography on the acclaimed 2000 Icelandic film 101 Reykjavík.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: How violence develops and where it can lead is a 1975 German political drama film based on Heinrich Böll's 1974 novel of the same name, adapted for the screen and directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. Schlöndorff and von Trotta wrote the script with an emphasis on the vindictive and harsh treatment of an innocent woman by the public, police, and media. The film stars Angela Winkler as Blum, Mario Adorf as Kommissar Beizmenne, Dieter Laser as Tötges, and Jürgen Prochnow as Ludwig. In 1984, the film and the novel were adapted into an American TV film, The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck.
Günther Anders was a German cameraman and cinematographer.
Karl Friedrich Anton Hermann "Charles" Régnier was a German actor, director and translator. He appeared in more than 135 films between 1949 and 2000. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he was one of the busiest German theatre and film actors.
Helmut Ashley or Helmuth Ashley was an Austrian cinematographer, television and film director.
Rolf Hoppe was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades.
Dietrich Lohmann, B.V.K. was a German cinematographer.
Gerald Leslie "Gerry" Turpin was an English cinematographer.
George Moorse was an American film director who worked and lived in Germany.
Das Boot is a German television series produced by Bavaria Fiction for Sky One and a sequel to the film of the same name, based on Lothar-Günther Buchheim's book Die Festung, the series focuses on events on land and sea in World War II.
Anette Haellmigk is a German cinematographer who has been nominated for multiple Emmy and ASC Awards. She has been a cinematographer on Game of Thrones, The West Wing, and Insecure, amongst others.
