U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'

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Today, 80 years after the events and 40 years after the film, these images and testimonies shed an unexpected light on the reality of the fiction filmed by Petersen. The international success of the film Das Boot made the U-96, of which it fictionally recounts the 7th combat patrol at sea, the most famous of all Hitler's submarines and arguably one of the most famous movie submarines. But the true story of this extraordinary submarine and its equally exceptional crew goes far beyond fiction. Knowing that the success of Das Boot not only opened the doors of Hollywood to Wolfgang Petersen, but also made this film an absolute reference from which all submarine warfare films produced by American cinema were subsequently inspired, this opens ultimately the way to a broader reflection on the indirect, even unconscious relationship that exists between the power of the images of Hitler's propaganda and that of today's Hollywood cinema.

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24-08-2023

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70 min

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English, French, German

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Raphaël Millet

Raphaël Millet

Raphaël Millet is a film director, producer, writer and scholar. A graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, he subsequently completed a postgraduate degree with a Master in Film Studies at University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. He then successively worked for the French National Centre for Cinema, France Télévisions, before being posted in Singapore as a cultural and audiovisual attaché, and then in Dubai as regional audiovisual attaché. He has also taught film studies at University Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris from 1997 to 2002, and written extensively about movies in magazines, dictionaries and encyclopedias, while penning books like "Cinémas de la Méditerranée, cinémas de la mélancolie" (2002), "Le Cinéma de Singapour" (2004), "Singapore Cinema" (2006), and "Cinema in Lebanon / Le Cinéma au Liban" (2017). He cofounded in 2007 Nocturnes Productions, for which he has on one hand produced documentaries about the history of cinema, such as "Code Name Melville" (2008), "Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed" (2012), "Edgar Morin, Chronicle of a Gaze" (2014), and on the other hand directed "Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory" (2011), "The Cinematographic Voyage of Gaston Méliès to Tahiti" (2014), "Gaston Méliès and His Wandering Star Film Company" (2015) and "Chaplin in Bali" (2017). He is a member of SCAM (Société civile des auteurs multimedia) in France and EDN (European Documentary Network) in Europe.
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