History Trivia / DasBoot

* BreakthroughHit: For both Creator/WolfgangPetersen and [[Creator/JurgenProchnow Jürgen Prochnow]]. And - at least in German cinema - for most of the cast. They deliberately cast little known actors and virtually all of them have gone on to become household names. Herbert Grönemeyer (playing the role of the Reporter) however would become way more famous as a singer, than for his acting.

* ReferencedBy: In ''Literature/{{Tempest}} Rising'', the half-mermaid Tempest swims deeper than she ever has before while looking for Kona. She remembers the scene in ''Das Boot'' where the submarine has to dive deeper than usual and springs leaks from the pressure, and hopes her body won't be damaged in the same way.

** The original set of the U-96 was later reused as the World War I submarine U-20 for ''Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic''.

* FakeNationality: The Austrian Creator/ErwinLeder as the German Johann, though might be subverted -- Johann speaks with a Southern Bavarian/Austrian accent. Austria was part of the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany German Third Reich]] between 1938 and 1945.
* LoopingLines: Because the camera was very loud, all of the actors had to redub their lines in German.

* FakeNationality: The Austrian Creator/ErwinLeder as the German Johann, though might be subverted -- Johann speaks with a Southern Bavarian/Austrian accent. Austria was part of Germany between 1938 and 1945.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The French title of the book is ''The Styx'', named after the Greek mythology's river to the Underworld. The film's title in France, however, was translated as ''Le Bateau'' at first ("The Boat", literal French for "Das Boot") then later [[UntranslatedTitle reverted to its original iconic title]] for subsequent video releases and general film talk.

* FakeNationality: The Austrian Creator/ErwinLeder as the German Johann, though might be subverted -- Johan speaks with a Southern Bavarian/Austrian accent. Austria was part of Germany between 1938 and 1945.