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.
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Still frame from the SKY/Bavaria Series "Das Boot"
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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.