The Last U-Boat

The Last U-Boat
Screenplay byKnut Boeser
Directed byFrank Beyer
StarringUlrich Mühe
Ulrich Tukur
Kaoru Kobayashi
Goro Ohashi
Manfred Zapatka
Matthias Habich
Udo Samel
Sylvester Groth
Country of originGermany
Austria
United States
Japan
Original languagesEnglish
Japanese
Production
ProducersAlfred Nathan (ZDF)
Werner Swossil (ORF)
Paul Coss (ABC)
Kagari Tajima (NHK)
Manfred Durniok
EditorRita Hiller [de]
Running time100 minutes
Original release
Release1993 (1993)

The Last U-Boat (German: Das letzte U-Boot) is a 1993 German television film directed by Frank Beyer, starring Ulrich Mühe and Ulrich Tukur, and scored by Oskar Sala. The film is loosely based on the true story of the German submarine U-234’s first and only mission into enemy or contested territory, to Japan, in the closing days of World War II.

Cast

Home release

In 2010 the film was distributed in Germany on DVD by Pandastorm Pictures GmbH. In Spain it was marketed as Das Boot 2: The Last Mission in reference to the unrelated 1981 West German submarine film Das Boot directed by Wolfgang Petersen.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Das Boot 2: La Última Misión (TV)". Film Affinity. Retrieved 17 March 2024.