Well fellow kaleuns, I put the DVD in my stand-alone DVD player and it spit it back out, tried again: same thing. So I put it in my puters NEC DL writer and it didn't even recognize the disc. Back to the video store, dude tried it on their equipment and same thing. The only other copy was rented, so they gave me credit.
They did have a copy on VHS - English dubbed (yuck!). So Das Boot will have to wait.
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