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1992 German television film

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The Last U-Boat
Screenplay by	Knut Boeser
Directed by	Frank Beyer
Starring	Ulrich Mühe Ulrich Tukur Kaoru Kobayashi Goro Ohashi Manfred Zapatka Matthias Habich Udo Samel Sylvester Groth
Country of origin	Germany Austria United States Japan
Original languages	English Japanese
Production
Producers	Alfred Nathan (ZDF) Werner Swossil (ORF) Paul Coss (ABC) Kagari Tajima (NHK) Manfred Durniok
Editor	Rita Hiller [de]
Running time	100 minutes
Original release
Release	1993 (1993)

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 first and only mission into enemy or contested territory, 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
Johannes Herrschmann [de] as Silowsky
Tom Jahn [de] 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.

References

"Das Boot 2: La Última Misión (TV)". Film Affinity. Retrieved 17 March 2024.

External links

The Last U-Boat at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Frank Beyer
Feature films	Zwei Mütter (1957) Eine alte Liebe (1959) Five Cartridges (1960) Star-Crossed Lovers (1962) Naked Among Wolves (1963) Carbide and Sorrel (1963) Trace of Stones (1966) Jacob the Liar (1975) The Turning Point (1983)
Television films	Rottenknechte (1971) The Last U-Boat (1992) Nikolaikirche (1995) Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997) Abgehauen (1998)

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