TV review: DasBoot
) and Vincent Kartheiser are Americans in the cast but this is primarily a German effort with some French actors .particularly riveting of course is that so much of it takes place within the confines of a German U-boat , with dangerous missions and pretty terrible conditions for the men; in many cases, the U-boats themselves were untested .
The series begins in the Germany-occupied port town of La Rochelle, France, in 1942 . The German navy is ramping up production of U-boats as a tactical advantage — in later episodes there's information that they are the most feared weapon by Winston Churchill — but at the same time Germany is losing a striking number of its fleet, whether to Allied depth charges or mechanical failure.
In La Rochelle she meets up with her younger brother, Frank , and is almost immediately and confusedly confronted with a life she didn't know he was leading. The young radio operator is a last-second addition to Hoffmann's maiden U-boat voyage and, knowing he might not make it back, tells Simone that she needs to clandestinely give something to someone later that night, thus starting Simone's complicated life of looking at the war from both sides.
Cast: Rick Okon, Vicky Krieps, Leonard Schleicher, August Wittgenstein, Tom Wlaschiha, Lizzy Caplan, Vincent Kartheiser, Clara Ponsot
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