An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
What sets Das Boot apart from more run-of-the-mill war dramas is its satellite-vision scope and its fine-grained examination of the soul-destroying compromises of war.
Von Reinhartz takes up the mantle of defecting hero, going rogue to deliver the Enigma machine to the Americans to stop the war, setting up a game of submarine cat and mouse that promises much.