![]() ![]() Soon, life on board is getting pretty mutinous, thanks to a campaign of whispers. Things start to become difficult almost immediately, once Okon starts obeying his orders – even if that means leaving battle and abandoning the other members of the wolf pack. This causes his first officer, August Wittgenstein, no end of annoyance – Wittgenstein is one of the few old hands left, a season warrior of the ‘wolf pack’, but without the connections that his new boss has. Now, only the young and inexperienced are available.Ĭaptaining this boat is Rick Okon, the son of a famous pre-war submarine commander who’s only just out of naval college yet already in charge of his own vessel. ![]() But while the film’s U-Boat was populated by old and experienced hands, this submarine is suffering from the same problem as the rest of Germany – too many of the old hands have been killed in action. As you might expect, the first takes place on board a German U-Boat, a new, more advanced class of submarine than that shown in the movie. Set in 1942 in occupied France, Das Boot has two real narrative strands. August Wittgenstein, Rick Okon and Franz Dinda in Das Boot Resistance Because if Babylon Berlin is the story of how a country collectively went mad, Das Boot is the story of how it began to regain its senses. True, it’s all in high gloss Ultra 4K, but if Wolfgang Petersen had access to high gloss Ultra 4K, this is the look that Das Boot (1981) would have had.īut that gloss is very familiar if you’ve seen Babylon Berlin and the similarities don’t end there. There are the same shots in dock, there are similar attack scenes as in the movie and there are similar drills and instruments – at least at first. Indeed, watching the new Das Boot, you can’t help but notice how similar it looks at times to the original movie, with shots and scenes clearly designed not just to homage but also mirror its progenitor. Okay, you probably weren’t expecting a sequel to the 1981 German cinema classic Das Boot at all, let alone one to original author Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s sequel Die Festung as well.īut picking up the action a mere nine months after the end of the original movie, Das Boot is oddly enough also a sequel (of sorts) to Babylon Berlin. In Germany: Aired on Sky Deutschland in 2018ĭas Boot isn’t the sequel you’ve been expecting. ![]()
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