The Captain at one point decides to see how deep the sub can dive. During this time you learn that the Captain has no love for the Nazis, and morale amongst the higher officers seems abysmal. The crew goes about their day to day business with increasing dreariness, all of them except the first lieutenant stop shaving and grow beards, and their moil is only broken by a false alarm arranged by the Captain to keep them on their toes. Werner snaps pictures of everything in sight initially, but gradually calms down. The crew experience the drudgery of regular drills. You also get your first shot of Johann, the head of the engine room, a pale, gangly fellow whom the crew members call "The Ghost".
Werner is ribbed by Pilgrim (Jan Fedder), another jokester, and befriends a very young officer, Ullmann, with a French girlfriend back home who he constantly writes letters to. Werner, the reporter, is led to the junior officer's bunks where he finds out that even the officers have to share beds because of space constraints. Of most note are the first lieutenant (Hubertus Bengsch), a prissy young hardcore Nazi, and the second lieutenant (Martin Semmelrogge) who is a clever jokester and constantly winds up the first lieutenant. The Captain addresses his assembled crew and introduces them to Werner. The Captain, Lt Werner & the Chief report to U-96 in the shipyards of La Rochelle, France. Thomsen is found in the Men's room, even more inebriated than before and having vomited on the floor.
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At the podium, Thomsen gives a speech full of what comes very close to anti-Nazi rhetoric (a couple guys in the audience, possibly SS men, look tense), but ends it on a positive note without saying anything too incriminating, obscenely praising their Fuhrer for his courageous stance against Winston Churchill and Britain. They note sadly that all the crews these days are just kids, and that the old guard is almost gone. Thomsen is brought out, looking very inebriated and supported by two officers. His wife is ill back home and he leaves to call about her.
They meet the Captain's chief engineer and de facto second-in-command "The Chief", (Klaus Wennemann), who is older and obviously doesn't look forward to another tour. Werner (Herbert Grönemeyer) who will be accompanying them on their next tour to report on the greatness of the Reich's sub crews. The Captain is then introduced to a party reporter, Lt. U-96's Captain (Jürgen Prochnow) looks on calmly. The officers are just a bunch of rowdy kids having fun. It is an award banquet for a sub captain Thomsen (Otto Sander), who just received a commendation, as well as a sending off for U-96's crew. The next scene is in a raucous beer hall. The officers (including, as you soon find out, the Captain) take this in stride. They harass the officers in a fairly obnoxious way, including urinating on their car as it goes by. Enlisted sailors are drunk and hanging out on the road.
Three officers of U-96 are driving down a dark road by the shores of La Rochelle, France.
In Fall of 1941 the German Atlantic U-Boat fleet is a mere 12 subs and the German campaign to rule the North Atlantic is turning against them.
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The movie opens with a title card noting that 40,000 Germans went out on submarines in WW2, and that 30,000 never came back.
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