Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.

Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber, Erwin Leder, Martin May, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Jan Fedder, Heinz Hoenig, Ralf Richter, Oliver Stritzel, Lutz Schnell, Otto Sander, Günter Lamprecht, Rita Cadillac