Size Matters - The Biggest Ever Epics, Part 3
From the middle of the desert to the depths of the ocean.
Das Boot
It didn’t sound promising - an eight-hour TV film about a WW2 German U-boat told by the losing side. Whichever version of Wolfgang Petersen’s film you see, it isn’t long before you’re sympathising with the enemy. Of course, it’s sad that leading man Jurgen Prochnow never fulfilled his early promise, but it’s sadder still that it took the Kursk disaster to show how epic cinema can have a bearing on real life, if only to provide the context with which to appreciate the true extent of a tragedy.
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