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Re: Das Boot: book or movie ?
Posted by:
Io Chrysafidou
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Date: November 13, 2003 11:16AM
<HTML>Dear Wiljan,
I searched in the Men section of this site, and also through Busch and couldn't find a U-boat commander named Kater; however, that's the name of the cook (spelled Katter) of U 96, and he was so highly thought of by his commanding officer, that he was actually transferred off the boat along with the Obersteuermann Radermacher, when the boat was given over to Hellriegel.
As for your view that the film made the book, it was actually the other way around initially, as the novel was translated in forty languages and was sold in millions of copies. The main headache of Petersen, when he began the costliest project in German film-making, was if the German-language film would catch on in places like the States, where subtitled films are considered high-brow intellectual ventures. So, in this case, the book came first, and shall always remain first, despite the flowery descriptions of sunrise and sunset. Of course, there's a story behind those descriptions as well, but...
Regards
Io</HTML>
I searched in the Men section of this site, and also through Busch and couldn't find a U-boat commander named Kater; however, that's the name of the cook (spelled Katter) of U 96, and he was so highly thought of by his commanding officer, that he was actually transferred off the boat along with the Obersteuermann Radermacher, when the boat was given over to Hellriegel.
As for your view that the film made the book, it was actually the other way around initially, as the novel was translated in forty languages and was sold in millions of copies. The main headache of Petersen, when he began the costliest project in German film-making, was if the German-language film would catch on in places like the States, where subtitled films are considered high-brow intellectual ventures. So, in this case, the book came first, and shall always remain first, despite the flowery descriptions of sunrise and sunset. Of course, there's a story behind those descriptions as well, but...
Regards
Io</HTML>