The Last U-Boat Explained

The Last U-Boat
Director:	Frank Beyer
Producer:	Alfred Nathan (ZDF) Werner Swossil (ORF) Paul Coss (ABC) Kagari Tajima (NHK) Manfred Durniok
Screenplay:	Knut Boeser
Starring:	Ulrich Mühe Ulrich Tukur Kaoru Kobayashi Goro Ohashi Manfred Zapatka Matthias Habich Udo Samel Sylvester Groth
Runtime:	100 minutes
Country:	Germany, Austria, United States and Japan
Language:	English, Japanese

The Last U-Boat (German: '''Das letzte U-Boot''') is a 1993 German television film directed by Frank Beyer, starring Ulrich Mühe and Ulrich Tukur, and scored by Oskar Sala. The film is loosely based on the true story of the German submarine U-234’s mission to Japan in the closing days of World War II.

Cast

• Ulrich Mühe as Kommandant Gerber
• Ulrich Tukur as Röhler
• Kaoru Kobayashi as Tatsumi
• Goro Ohashi as Kimura
• Manfred Zapatka as Beck
• Matthias Habich as Mellenberg
• Udo Samel as Dr. Falke
• Sylvester Groth as Maschke
• as Silowsky
• as Koch Reidel
• Andrew Wilson as Grant
• Thore Seeberg as Leader of the Submarines
• Magne-Håvard Brekke (as Magne Brekke) as Norwegian train driver
• Kiyoshi Kodama as Japanese minister
• Isao Natsuyagi as Japanese Vice Admiral
• Takehiko Ono as Japanese State Secretary
• Lloyd Johnston as British Captain Toynbee
• Paul Herzberg as British officer Mayhew
• Johnathan Burn as Admiral Brighton
• Peter Scollin as Rear Admiral Dean
• Barry Bostwick as US Captain Hawkins

Home release

In 2010 the film was distributed in Germany on DVD by Pandastorm Pictures GmbH. In Spain it was marketed as Das Boot 2: The Last Mission in reference to the unrelated 1981 West German submarine film Das Boot directed by Wolfgang Petersen.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Das Boot 2: La Última Misión (TV). Film Affinity. 17 March 2024.