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CTHE Press Release: DAS BOOT: THE ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION
" ...the most convincing war movie ever made..."
- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Academy Award®-Nominated Director Wolfgang Petersen's
Gripping Wartime Epic Presented with Two Additional Hours of Footage
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DAS BOOT: THE ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION
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Nominated for Six Academy Awards®
Available June 1 on Two-Disc Collector's Edition DVD
Culver City, CA (March 29, 2004) - Timed for release with his newest historical film
Troy starring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, Academy Award®-nominated director Wolfgang
Petersen's (Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) first epic wartime drama DAS BOOT will be
presented in it's original uncut version. Featuring over two more hours of footage than originally
released in the U.S., DAS BOOT: THE ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION is now presented in a
special two-disc set with restored original stereo audio and newly created 5.1 audio. Available
June 1 from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, DAS BOOT: THE ORIGINAL UNCUT
VERSION will be priced at $39.95 SLP.
Director Wolfgang Peterson's original vision for DAS BOOT produced an epic six-hour
mini-series event that has only ever been seen in its entirety on German television, with the edited
down version released as the acclaimed international motion picture back in 1981. Never-before-
seen in the U.S., now this fully restored edition will be shown complete and uncut the way it was
originally intended to be seen.
The most expensive and most successful motion picture in the history of German cinema,
DAS BOOT is the powerful and realistic tale that follows the daring undersea patrol of U-96, one
of the famed German U-boats knows as the "gray wolves." Prowling the North Atlantic during
WWII, they challenged the British Navy at every turn in an attempt to destroy English shipping.
The crew aboard the U-96 is graphically portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle, coping
with endless hours of claustrophobic boredom at sea, which quickly gives way to terror when
confronting the enemy. Relentlessly under attack, the U-96 is forced to unheard of depths, the
creaking hull threatening to collapse and crush the panicked sailors.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
Making of Featurette
Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video
Remastered in High Definition
Widescreen Presentation
Audio: German, English (Newly Created 5.1 from Stereo); German, English (Original Stereo)
Subtitles: English, French
Bonus Trailers
Scene Selections
Not Rated
Color
Closed Captioned
Running Time: 293 Minutes
DVD Catalog # 09678
UPC Code: 0-43396-09678-3
Order Date: 04/29/04
SLP: $39.95 DVD
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