What year did Lothar - Gunter Buchheim review " Das Boot " ?
Even though impressed by the technological accuracy of the film 's set - design and port construction buildings , novelist Lothar - Günter Buchheim expressed great disappointment with Petersen 's adaptation in a film review published in 1981 , especially with Petersen 's aesthetic vision for the film and the way the plot and the effects are , according to him , overdone and clichéd by the adaptation .