Das Boot

[goldenecitrone]

There's a great DDR anti-war film called the Adventures of Werner Holt about some kids growing up in the war years in Germany and finally being called upon to fight. Very interesting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057816/combined

 

[seeformiles]

I've got the Director's Cut on DVD and watched it over a couple of days while Mrs SFM was away with work! One of the best war (or anti-war) films ever made.

 

[Gramsci]

Still, rare for me to miss a German woman in leather...

Then check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilsa,_She_Wolf_of_the_SS

 

[butchersapron]

There's a great DDR anti-war film called the Adventures of Werner Holt about some kids growing up in the war years in Germany and finally being called upon to fight. Very interesting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057816/combined

See also The Bridge about the kids left to fight the russians in berlin 1945:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/

 

[dylanredefined]

I remember watching it one Christmas with my family: brutal, tragic ending; titles roll; whole family sits in contemplative silence....except my gran who pipes up with, "well I'm glad they got them in the end."

When I told my German boss this story he couldn't stop laughing...

Made me lol as well.

 

[hendo]

It's Wolfgang Petersen's finest moment; he went off to the States and did loads of big sea based films (like a remake of the Poseidon adventure ffs), but none of them are a patch on this.