'DAS BOOT' TV SERIES
WHEN BOYS BECAME MEN
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| Das Boot hits Sky this November |
Your treat for this Saturday are new photos and the first trailer for World War II German TV series
DAS BOOT which will hit
Sky One (in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Italy) November 23rd and will later also air on
Hulu in Northern America,
AMC in Spain and Portugal and
Epix and
Viasat in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe! The series, which explores the emotional torment of life during World War Two, cost $33 million to make and is inspired by
Lothar Günther Buchheim’s best selling novel which was
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| Das Boot series will also air on Hulu in Northern America |
previously made into an Oscar nominated movie by
Wolfgang Petersen! Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Lizzy Caplan,
Vincent Kartheiser, James |
| These Uboat submarines were active from the first till the last day of the war |
D’Arcy, Thierry Frémont, August Wittgenstein, Rainer Bock,
Rick Okon, Leonard Scheicher, Robert Stadlober, Franz Dinda and Stefan Konarske, are just of the names in the international cast!
DAS BOOT TV SERIES starts in the fall of 1942 in occupied France. Nazi submarine U-612 is ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen, including the new commander, Klaus Hoffmann
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| German submariners had the lowest survival rate of any branch of service of any country during World War Two. Of the some 40,000 men who served on U-boats, 33,000 were killed. |
(
Rick Okon). As the 40 young men take on their first mission, they struggle with the cramped and claustrophobic conditions of life underwater. Meanwhile, at the port of La Rochelle, the world of Simone Strasser spirals out
of control as she is engulfed in a dangerous liaison and forbidden love, torn between her loyalty for Germany and the French Resistance, and causing her to question everything.
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