Their personalities are pushed to the limit as tensions rise and loyalties begin to shatter. As the 40 young men take on their first mission, they struggle with the cramped and claustrophobic conditions of life underwater. The plot follows a young submarine Crew on a dangerous surveillance mission, as the Résistance begins to gain influence at the French port of La Rochelle.ĭuring the Autumn of 1942, in occupied France, U-612 is now ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen, including the new commander, Klaus Hoffmann. The story of the new high end series "Das Boot" begins in the fall of 1942, at a time when, in the midst of World War II, submarine warfare was becoming ever more brutal. These two historically based strands come together in an unexpected, thrilling finale. That man, very much changed by his own shattering experiences, is Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Okon). They also lead him to a shadowy figure caught up in a conspiracy that might change the course of the War - for the better. These discoveries and aspects of his own history deriving from dark experiences on the Eastern front, lead him to question his own actions and moral path. Meanwhile in the exotic climes of neutral Lisbon where the exiles, spies and criminals of Europe rub shoulders with each other and their enemies, Hagen Forster (Tom Wlaschiha) discovers a lethal plot to steal a fortune in plundered war time gold. When she meets the charming submarine commander Schulz (Pierre Kiwitt), she is playing with fire. Hannie suffers under the tight constraints of her status and the social expectations that go with it. Also in Kiel, Wilhelm Hoffmann's daughter Hannie (Luise Wolfram) is trapped in a loveless marriage to Commander Albrecht Lessing (Florian Panzner), a bitter, emotionally distant man. The young mother is married to a man who is seriously injured and suffering from war neurosis. Together they form strong personal alliances under the command of Robert Ehrenberg (Franz Dinda).Īnd yet Ehrenberg's thoughts remain in Kiel, where he has developed feelings for Greta (Elisa Schlott). “It happens once every 10 years that you have the opportunity to build on a brand like that,” he says, and underlines that “the story is written in such a way that you can go on until the war is over.Season 3 follows the fortunes of a young U-boat crew as they engage in the Battle of the Atlantic, are hunted down by an obsessed Royal Navy Commander (Ray Stevenson) and are sent on a dangerous mission to the Southern Hemisphere. Sky Deutschland senior VP of original productions Marcus Ammon says it was more or less a no-brainer to greenlight the second season. This dual storyline generates a momentum in viewers “of always missing the other ,” says Polter, who boasts that “creating that binge-watching urge was something I wanted to achieve, and looking at the numbers it seems as though that worked.” In its most recent outing “Das Boot” debuted in January on Sky in Italy, scoring the best ratings ever for a European production on the paybox. It tells dual stories: there is the journey of the U-boat, and the story of the Resistance movement in La Rochelle. The tide is turning against the German war effort after the Allies solve the Enigma code and opposition to the Nazis intensifies. Thus the revived “Das Boot” is set in fall 1942, months after Petersen’s movie ended. They “needed to find an intro into the series that would hook the audience that was expecting to get ‘Das Boot’ and at the same time start a completely new show.” Betz and Tony Saint, “we very quickly realized that actually doing a real sequel would probably also be fairly problematic, given where the story of ‘Das Boot’ ends, meaning pretty much everyone being dead,” he says. But when they sat down with writers Johannes W. It was decided to make it a sequel of sorts. The “Das Boot” reboot effort “all began with discussions about what we wanted to do, meaning: Do we do a remake? Do we do a sequel? Do we do eight parts?, six, 10?… Do we do a movie at the same time?,” Polter says.
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