"Berlin boasted the biggest film industry in Europe, producing in Fritz Lang's Metropolis the science-fiction masterpiece of the twenties and in the same director's M the definitive film noir."

"Tillie: BLEH!!"

"Beggar: Stop snoring! You'll wake the lice."

"Children: [singing] Just you wait a little while, the nasty man in black will come. With his little chopper, he will chop you up!"

"Tillie: Don't do that!"

"Pickpocket with Seven Watches: There are more police on the street tonight than whores."

"Girl in Circle: Just you wait, it won't be long, The man in black will soon be here, With his cleaver's blade so true, He'll make mincemeat out of you!"

"[to Hans Beckert] You talk of rights… You will get your rights. We are all law experts here, from six weeks in Tegel, to fifteen years in Brandenburg."

"We're doing our job because we have a living to make. But this monster has no right to live. He must disappear. He must be exterminated, without pity… without scruples."

"Bernd Tauber - Navigator Kriechbaum"

"Günter Lamprecht - the Captain of the Weser"

"Otto Sander - Capt. Philipp Thomsen"

"Konrad Becker - Böckstiegel"

"Lutz Schnell - Dufte"

"Jean-Claude Hoffmann - Benjamin"

"Oliver Stritzel - Schwalle"

"Ralf Richter - Petty Officer Frenssen"

"Jan Fedder - Petty Officer Pilgrim"

"Claude-Oliver Rudolph - Ario"

"Uwe Ochsenknecht - Boatswain Lamprecht"

"Heinz Hoenig - Petty Officer Hinrich"

"Martin May - Senior Cadet Ullmann"

"Erwin Leder - Chief Mechanic Johann"

"Martin Semmelrogge - 2nd Watch Officer"

"Hubertus Bengsch - 1st Watch Officer"

"Klaus Wennemann - Chief Engineer (German: Leitender Ingenieur or LI)"

"Herbert Grönemeyer - Lt. Werner"

"Jürgen Prochnow - The Captain"

"The boat is rated to 90 metres, but of course we can go deeper. There's a limit somewhere. We can only take so much pressure... before the boat will be crushed."

"Mildew is good for you. It's the next best thing to fresh lettuce. Be thankful for what grows down here."

"Hail victory, and sink them all!"

"[drunk, in English] I am not in a condition to fuck!"

"[gives a drunken speech to the party in honor of his Knight's Cross] A toast to our wonderful, abstaining, womanless Führer. Who rose gloriously from apprentice painter to become the world's greatest battle strategist. What, isn't it true? He's the great naval expert who took it upon himself, in his wisdom...how does it go again...Who's been showing that English bedwetter, that cigar-chomping asshole Churchill, where to go stick his cigars!"

"[escaping from the British] They haven't spotted us! They're all snoring in their bunks! Or you know what? They're drinking in the bar! Celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!"

"Okay, men, now listen. We're going to blow out the water now and see if we can get our rear ends out of the sand. If we make it to the surface, things could still get pretty rough. Traffic's heavy up there. And we have to pray the engines start, so we can get out of this mess. The condition the boat is in, we have got to head straight for La Rochelle. If we make it... it's half a bottle of beer for each! There is one thing on our side; they won't be expecting us. Well men, all set?"

"[After a successful torpedo attack, and the sounds of the sinking ships fade away] Now it's their turn."

"[during the storm] The sea cannot claim us, Henrich. No ship is as seaworthy as ours."

"[to Werner, while they stand on the bridge, sailing through rough seas] There's nothing more beautiful than a submarine...and a sailboat! There are no better lines than those of a sailboat. I sailed on a three-masted schooner once. Gorgeous ship! It had holds the size of a cathedral! [he and Werner laugh]"

"[looking at a log of messages from other U-Boats] Our recent triumphs: "Dived to evade enemy aircraft; Lost contact." "Dived to evade destroyer; Depth charged." The British have stopped making mistakes."

"Our patrol planes! Where are they? Answer that one, Herr Göring! The British have plenty of them! Talking big is all he's good for, that fat slob."

"[After an alarm is sounded and an emergency dive is executed] April fool. Practice makes perfect."

"[referring to officers going to a 'cathouse' the night before shipping out] Scared fuckers. They need sex like the infantry needs alcohol."

"It's all an accident, an accident of hands. Mine, others, all without mind, from one extreme to another, but neither works nor will ever. Yet we stand here in the middle of no man's land. Me and you."

"I feel he thinks he is on some kind of special mission, that is, to achieve spiritual domination of his battalion, thereby symbolising the purity of the great German Wehrmacht itself, even when going down in defeat. If they're the last of us, Stransky and Steiner, then God help us!"

"Steiner is a myth. Men like him are our last hope and in that sense, he is a truly dangerous man."

"On the Eastern Front in 1943 the German soldiers no longer had any ideals, they were not fighting for the stinking Party-but for their stinking lives!"

"Men on the front lines of Hell"