Experienced First Officer of the Watch Karl Tennstedt (August Wittgenstein) is tasked with assisting him. This is made all the more complicated by the fact that Gestapo boss Hagen Forster (Tom Wlaschiha) is also keen on the translator.įrank meanwhile has other things to worry about: he is stuck on board the new and as yet untested U-612 submarine with the inexperienced Lieutenant Captain Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Orkon), who owes this first job to the “heroic death” of his father. When suddenly he has to set sail on an enemy mission, his sister is dragged into his illicit love affair. Need any more details?” She doesn‘t. Another thing that Simone doesn’t realize is that Frank is head over heels in love and intent on winning over resistance fighter Carla Monroe (Lizzy Caplan). When during a tour she seeks to romanticize the “floating coffin” by describing it as a cozy man-cave and wants to know “what life’s like” on board, he replies without mincing his words: “40 guys, no shower, a shithole. Frank is visibly annoyed by his sister’s ignorance. When she finds herself bound for La Rochelle, the translator is looking forward most of all to being reunited with her brother Frank (Leonard Scheicher), a submarine radio operator who is stationed in this French coastal town. Simone Strasser from Alsace (played by Krieps) appears blissfully unaware of any of this, however. Nine months after the sinking of the U-96 – the submarine we remember from the cinema version – the Brits are using the Enigma encryption machine to make life hell for Germany’s Nazi regime and have already sunk twelve subs in short order. The plot of this opulent production is based on the novels “Das Boot” and “Die Festung” by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and begins in the fall of 1942. Still frame from the SKY/Bavaria Series "Das Boot" © Nik Konietzny / Bavaria Fiction GmbH, 2018.Amour also features – the story is set in France, after all, and the series doesn’t always prove capable of circumnavigating the clichés. However, unlike the legendary cinema version, which made stars out of actors such as Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Uwe Ochsenknecht, this eight-part series interweaves the on-board battle for survival with a tale of espionage linked to the French resistance. The series of the same name, for which Bavaria Fiction, Sky Deutschland, and Sonar Entertainment paid around 27 million euros, also offers the greatest possible suspense in the smallest possible space and the relentless “ping” of the sonar. ![]() Nothing can bring movie fans out in more chilling goosebumps than the clanging “ping” of a depth sounder. In his 1981 masterpiece “Das Boot”, which was nominated for six Oscars, the director Wolfgang Petersen depicted a submarine crew in a cold sweat and hypnotized as they stare in terror at the depth gauge, listening out for sounds from the ocean. ![]() And this, just like in its nail-biting predecessor, is a real adrenaline rush. ![]() Where Wolfgang Petersen’s cinematic milestone of the same name focused on the fate of a submarine crew, however, this time it is not only hostile Navy personnel but also the Gestapo and the French resistance who are battling with every means at their disposal to gain the upper hand. Not really the thing for landlubbers: the series “Das Boot” is a brutally honest portrayal of the unrelenting horrors of the Second World War.
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