Simone and Carla are the extra dimension Das Boot needs. Simone would like to do the right thing, but this is not a world that rewards virtue. An underground trade in morphine only complicates matters. As Frank faces underwater death daily, Simone is barely more comfortable knowing that her new acquaintances are her passport to incarceration, torture and death. Translator Simone Strasser (the brilliant Vicky Krieps), sister of the U-boat’s radio operator, Frank, gets tangled up with a French Resistance cell led by an American woman Carla Monroe (deftly played by Lizzy Caplan). Photograph: Nik Konietzny/Bavaria Fictionīut the sequel spends a lot of time on dry land, too. Simone Strasser (Vicky Krieps) gets caught up in a Resistance cell that could result in incarceration, torture and death. The opening slate tells us: “The battle for control of the Atlantic is turning against the Germans … 40,000 German sailors served on U-boats during the second world war … 30,000 never returned.” Right from the off, we know the U-boat is a tomb. We’d seen second world war stories from the German point of view before, but rarely at such close quarters, with so much tension and such devastating results. Most British viewers first encountered Das Boot when the TV miniseries aired in 1985. Andreas Prochaska’s eight-part series is a classy revisiting of the Das Boot universe that retains the claustrophobic doom of Wolfgang Petersen’s classic film while weaving in enough new threads to give it its own identity. This is no easy task.įortunately, they nail it. The launch of Das Boot this week comes with equal parts fear and excitement it will float or sink on its ability to resurrect the spirit of the original while showing us something we haven’t seen before. The aim is to engage a new audience with a known winner while keeping fans of the original onboard. Not that this has ever stopped the industry from remixing the classics. Rifling through television’s ever-growing canon will always leave you open to accusations of grave-robbing, sacrilege or being too lazy to come up with your own ideas. Never go back, some say, and you can see the argument. P lunderers of TV past will always run into opposition.
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