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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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Originally Posted by McHibbins
Interesting note : L.G.Buchheim didnt´t like it. He blame Petersen for the Party-scene at the Beginning of the film also for the Kpt´s permanent complaining about the Leadership.
Heinrich Lehman-Willenbrock surely wasn´t a Nazi but he never was so angry about the BdU and others like in that film.
Petersen´s statement later was, that he wanted to make an Anti-War-film and so he replaced Willenbrock with "Der Alte". This person was fiction.
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But the party scene was in the book, and the main officers had no names in the book either. The captain was called 'Der Alte' in the book, so it couldn't have been Petersen's decision, but Bucheim's.
I've heard that some former u-boatmen said that the book was not real either. I've only heard that, never read it from a source, so I don't know if it's true. |
I understand that Buchheim liked the movie, but found two things unrealistic. The first was the party scene in the boat (although he thought it well done). Second, if someone threw a greasy rag in an officer's face, they would have been court marshalled.