Arts The Michigan Daily Friday, May 14, 1982 Page 7 'Das Boot' looks at World War II By Richard Campbell W HERE HAVE ALL the war movies gone? Apparently, they have fled to foreign soil. Gallipoli gave us the Australian version of WWI and now Germany presents us with the other side of World War II in Das Boot. The film not only puts us behind German lines; it also gets us under the Atlantic. Das Boot is the story of Ger- man submarine U-96, its crew and the battles it encounters as it prowls the seas. What should make this film so in- teresting is its depiction of German soldiers fighting a nationalistic war, rather than the usual American John Wayne war flick piously defending the land of the free. But Das Boot really fails to provide any insight intothe German character. Why does the movie look and feel so much like the American war movies of the '40s and '50s? Das. Boot is a good war film, but it doesn't do anything new or different with the genre. The film starts rolling in a Cabaret- esque night club with lots of soldiers and officers getting gloriously drunk before being sent out on another mission. At one point an officer gives a speech upon receiving the Iron Cross and criticizes the German high com- mand. The majority of the film is told from the viewpoint of a reporter, played by Herbert Gronemeyer. It is through this cinematic device that we are shown about the submarine and given ex- planations concerning depth gauges, torpedoes, etc. We quickly see that a German U-boat is a cramped, sweaty, tension-filled sardine can. As Director Wolfgang Petersen points out on a title card at the beginning of the movie, 40,000 men served in U-boat crews - only 10,000 survived. This meticulously detailed film allows us to readily believe that we are seeing exactly what went on under the Atlantic during WWII. Most of the time is spent waiting for something to do. Boredom is rampant See WORLD WAR, Page8 Jurgen Prochnow stars as the captain of the German submarine U-96 in the film 'Das Boot.' NOW SHOWING THIEF WARRMOR deI GLADIATOR KING II THE BAKRAIA DINO DE LAURENTIISPRST ANEOWARD R. PRESSMANP.RUCT.I ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER JAMES EARL JONES. "CONAN THE BARBARIAN" SANDAHL BERGMAN BEN DAVIDSON- GERRY LOPEZ.MAKO WILLIAM SMITH ...MAX VON SYDOW10E ECJON MILISOLIVER STONE BASIL POLEDOURIS D. CONSTANTINE CONTE ANDEDWARD R. PRESSMAN BUZZ FEITSHANS ANDRAFFAELLA DE LAURENTIIS JOHN MILIUS nyI"SW , n"-WTr WR UNER7AENDREQURESACMA A VERSAL RiEASE t*'982 UNVRSALC'TY s'Uo os NC 1214s. unverity""4013 CAMPUS Theatre Phone 668-6416 5111SfE NTW MON-TUES-THURS-FRI Box Office Opens 7:25-9:35 At8:00 p.m. SAT-SUN-WED Show Starts 1:00-3:05-5:15-7:25-9:35 At Dusk THE MOVIES AT BRIARWOOD -94 & S. STATE * 769-8780 (Adjacent to J. C. Penney) * DAILY EARLY BIRD MATINEES-Adults $1.50 DISCOUNT IS FOR SHOWS STARTING BEFORE 1:30 12:15 WILLIE PHOEBE 4:45 P MOUNT PICTURE 2:30 A/iMES CATES 7:00 7:005 9:15 9:15 MIDNITES-All Seats $2.50 DAWN OF THE DEAD (R) KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE (R) HARD DAYS NIGHT (R)