![]() Just as the crew of the submarine, her loyalty too is tested when she gets stuck in a triangular relationship, with on the one side a French resistance woman and on the other side a Gestapo-officer. Her brother is on board of the U-612 as a radio-operator. Other than the 1981 version, which largely plays on board of the submarine, this remake also plays on land, namely at La Rochelle where female protagonist Simone Strasse works as a translator for the Kriegsmarine, the Nazi German navy. It seems as if there is more a link with the present here (refugee ships on the Mediterranean Sea) than with the past. When a few armed crew members enter the ship, they find a shifty crew and in the hold a group of Jewish refugees, of which the larger part has already passed away. In one of the episodes it becomes rather unbelievable when the crew of the submarine board a drifting ship without a living soul to see on it. It gives no factual reproduction of the historical facts, but instead a very free interpretation. In reality the submarine sank in August 1942, but both the circumstances as the rescue of the crew are different in the miniseries. The mutual tensions and loyalty conflicts are of importance in the scenario, which is both based on the first book by Buchheim as on the sequel of 1995, "Die Festung", which moreover plays in a different period than the miniseries, namely in the summer of 1944.Ī tensive part of the story is the sinking of the U-612 and how the crew whilst being plagued by mortal agony have to get their damaged vessel moving again from the seafloor. The crew, which for a part consists of old hands, among them first officer Karl Tennstedt, has tensions with its new, inexperienced commander. The submarine of the type VIIC, which is stationed in La Rochelle at the French Atlantic coast, is getting ready for a first mission under the command of the young captain Klaus Hoffmann, the son of a famous submarine-commander from the First World War. While the original story stops in December 1941, the new story begins in the autumn of 1942. ![]() A big part of the miniseries plays underwater, on board of this submarine. Whereas the productions from 1981 are about the U-96, in the miniseries it is the U-612 that plays a role. ![]() Is a worthy sequel of a film, that breathes the atmosphere of times gone by, even possible in the age of shallow Netflix-successes, inanimate computer animations and societal hypersensitivity? It was a hard pill to swallow for those same fans when in 2018 a remake appeared. The film with a German top cast became a classic, one that still scores high among film fanatics. In 1981 followed the West-German feature film and television series of Wolfgang Petersen with the same title, in which in unrivaled fashion was shown how the crew of the submarine was forced to stand their ground in a claustrophobic world, tormented by boredom, a lack of privacy and hygiene and a slowly increasing fear of death. After the war he modeled his experiences into the novel "Das Boot" which appeared in 1973 and was published in many languages. War correspondent Lothar-Günther Buchheim traveled along to report the experiences of the submarine crew for propaganda purposes. Rick Okon, Vicky Krieps, Tom Wlaschiha et al.ĭuring the seventh patrol of the U-96 in 1941 there was a man on board who would write film history. ![]()
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