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. Season two opens with a thrilling series of above-ground plot points, all poised to interlace: a French resistance operative working as a double agent in an SS-operated police department a grieving soldier desperate to find his abandoned daughter a too-trusting senator’s son and the U-boat engineer he scooped up out of the sea, schmoozing through the nightclubs of Harlem.Not really the thing for landlubbers: the series “Das Boot” is a brutally honest portrayal of the unrelenting horrors of the Second World War. How Das Boot achieves this is by taking a lot of the water out but keeping the claustrophobia in.
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But with that smooth patina of Big Budget TV over the top of it, Das Boot becomes compelling to an audience wider than – and I’m using my own father as an example – “men who go to the library twice a week solely to take out non-fiction war books about U-boats and chain-smoke roll-ups while reading them in utter silence”.
Obviously, an atmospheric, no-fun drama set in the simmering cauldron of a second world war submarine – where danger surrounds you, both from the murky waters above and from the complicated hierarchy of men, young and old and grizzled and green, who all have differing levels of dedication to the wartime cause – isn’t for everyone.
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