It showed him as a man who knows how to lead, knows his submarine as if he were married to it (and in many ways he is) but isn't perfect at the job. Petersen's direction for Captain Lehmann-Willenbrock was masterful because it didn't portray the captain as a god. This movie also shows how leadership is so important in keeping the crew (and ultimately the sub) together. For the rest of you, I feel certain you will too be dragged in and know what it is like to live on board a WW2 U-boat. My own experience watching the depth charging of the U-boat was such that I was thinking "stop it, Stop It, STOP IT, STOPITSTOPITSTOPIT.!!!!!" That's how real it felt to me. More importantly, you as a viewer become an invisible crew member as the crew lives in very cramped conditions (American WW2 subs used to be called "pig boats"), deals with an unfortunately believable political officer, deals with drills, actual torpedo firings, actual ships casualties, and deals, most frighteningly, with retribution from the "enemy". The commonality between yesterday and today is how the crew deals with being closed up in a "sewer pipe" for weeks at a time.
I say "probably" because todays subs are hotels compared with the German U-boats and American submarines. But my personal observations, as an ex-submarine sailor, are that Petersen probably portrayed life on board the sub pretty accurately. *** Minor spoilers *** The plot has been well described by other viewers so I won't rehash it again. Wolfgang Petersen's magnificent accomplishment in "Das Boot" is reiterating the dictum that "war is hell", no matter which side you look at it from and no matter where the battlefield is located. While it has been a very long time since I have seen this movie, it is one of the very few that I own.
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