Das Boot (1981)
Petersen's 1981 German U-boat drama. Three-hour theatrical, six-hour director's cut, miniseries.
Actor: Klaus Wennemann
Klaus Wennemann played the chief engineer in Das Boot, whose exhaustion and competence hold the boat together, and the performance is largely conveyed through how he watches the gauges. He worked extensively in German television afterward and died in 2000.