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Evening Jean-Noel,
I've often pondered who 'Der Alte'was based on. I think that Prochnow'a character was an amalgam of people llke Schepke (daring and audacity, good looks) Kretschmer (cool professionalism) with perhaps a smidgeon of Jurgen Oesten thrown in for good measure.
As to Thomsen, I think he symbolises every decent battle weary U-Boat man in one character.
I'm sure others will have different ideas on this. I know little of the actual skipper of U-96 Lehmann-Willenbrock's personality so I didn't include him in my choices (perhaps Io could help here?)
Interesting topic
Do Chara
Barry
This is the forum for Movie and Film discussions. Again, our topic is naval warfare in WWII for the most part.
Re: Error in Das Boot ??
Posted by:
Barry Scully
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Date: January 29, 2007 09:25PM
Evening Jean-Noel,
I've often pondered who 'Der Alte'was based on. I think that Prochnow'a character was an amalgam of people llke Schepke (daring and audacity, good looks) Kretschmer (cool professionalism) with perhaps a smidgeon of Jurgen Oesten thrown in for good measure.
As to Thomsen, I think he symbolises every decent battle weary U-Boat man in one character.
I'm sure others will have different ideas on this. I know little of the actual skipper of U-96 Lehmann-Willenbrock's personality so I didn't include him in my choices (perhaps Io could help here?)
Interesting topic
Do Chara
Barry
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Error in Das Boot ?? | Barry Scully | 01/11/2007 09:05PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Barry Scully | 01/12/2007 09:33AM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Volker Erich Kummrow | 01/12/2007 11:05AM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | PatW | 01/12/2007 09:55PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Barry Scully | 01/13/2007 12:10PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Barry Scully | 01/13/2007 12:14PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Jean-Noël Muller | 01/29/2007 05:41PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | MCE | 01/29/2007 07:43PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Barry Scully | 01/29/2007 09:25PM |
Re: Error in Das Boot ?? | Volker Erich Kummrow | 01/30/2007 12:44PM |