The Last U-Boat

The Last U-Boat 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
as Silowsky
as Koch Reidel
Andrew Wilson as Grant
Thore Seeberg as Leader of the Submarines
Magne-Håvard 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.