Editing Das Boot (section)

===Critical response===
The film received highly positive reviews upon its release. [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' scored the film at four out of four.<ref name="Ebert">{{cite web |work=Chicago Sun-Times |publisher=Sun-Times Media Group |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=1981 |title=Das Boot |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/das-boot-1997}}</ref>
Prior to the 55th Academy Awards on 11 April 1983 the movie received six nominations: Cinematography for Jost Vacano; Directing for Wolfgang Petersen; Film Editing for Hannes Nikel; Sound for Milan Bor, Trevor Pyke and Mike Le-Mare; Sound Effects Editing for Mike Le-Mare; and Writing (Screenplay based on material from another medium) for Wolfgang Petersen.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 55th Academy Awards – 1983 |date=5 October 2014 |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1983}}</ref>
{{blockquote|"Das Boot" isn't just a German film about World War II; it's a German naval adventure epic that has already been a hit in West Germany.|source=Janet Maslin, ''The New York Times'', 10 February 1982<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B0DE6DA103BF933A25751C0A964948260 |title=Movie Reviews |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 2020}}</ref>}}
Today, the film is seen as [[List of films considered the best#Germany|one of the greatest German films]]. On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film received an [[approval rating]] of 98% based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 9.10/10. The critical consensus states "Taut, breathtakingly thrilling, and devastatingly intelligent, ''Das Boot'' is one of the greatest war films ever made."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/das_boot/?search=das%20boot |title=Das Boot |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=5 May 2022}}</ref> The film also has a score of 86 out of 100 on [[Metacritic]] based on 15 critics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/das-boot |title=Das Boot |work=Metacritic |access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref> For its unsurpassed authenticity in tension and realism, it is regarded internationally as pre-eminent among all [[submarine films]]. The film was ranked #25 in ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema – 25. Das Boot |url=http://www.empireonline.com/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/default.asp?film=25 |work=Empire}}</ref>

In late 2007, there was an exhibition about the film ''Das Boot'', as well as about the real U-boat ''U-96'', at the [[Haus der Geschichte]] (House of German History) in [[Bonn]]. Over 100,000 people visited during the exhibition’s four-month run.

;Buchheim's views of the film
Though impressed by the technological accuracy of the film's set-design and port construction buildings, novelist [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]] expressed disappointment with Petersen's adaptation in a film review<ref name="buchheim">{{cite magazine |last=Buchheim |first=Lothar-Günter |title=Kommentar – Die Wahrheit blieb auf Tauchstation |language=de |trans-title=Commentary: The truth remained hidden under the sea |magazine=[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]] |issue=10 |date=1981 |url=http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~junghans/dasboot/inhalt.html}}</ref> published in 1981, describing Petersen's film as converting his clearly anti-war novel into a blend of a "cheap, shallow American action flick" and a "contemporary German propaganda newsreel from World War II".<ref name=Local>{{cite news |author=Jörg Luyken |url=https://www.thelocal.de/20180206/lg-buchheim-the-multi-talented-and-irascible-genius-behind-das-boot |title=LG Buchheim: the multi-talented and irascible genius behind Das Boot |newspaper=[[The Local]] |location=Germany |date=6 February 2018 }}</ref><ref name="buchheim" />