I have the directors cut of Das Boot which has as commentary track in which the interviewer talks with the director, the actor playing the Kaleun (and producer I think) for the complete duration of the movie. I can't remember exacty what was said but at the end of it in the harbor, the complete crew or atleast the Kaleun wasn't meant to be portrait as being dead. He just collapsed/passed/cracked under all the drama up to that point.
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