Das boot series 1 review8/11/2023 ![]() He’s about to unearth a (spoiler alert) vast conspiracy involving plundered gold. Back, too, is Gestapo official Hagen Forster (the reliably chilling Tom Wlaschiha, pictured above), whom we meet again when he visits Lisbon to investigate the killing of a Gestapo agent. ![]() His son’s moral anguish about the war and the Nazi cause is another issue waiting to bounce back strongly in this third series. Meanwhile, the father-and-son theme is echoed by the continuing story of Hoffman (Rick Okon) and his venerable dad Wilhelm (Ernst Stotzner), a legendary submariner from the previous war whose book Don’t Fear the Depths has become a bible of undersea warfare among the sailors of the Kriegsmarine. His determination to annihilate as many Germans as possible will be given full rein as the series develops, as, equipped with the latest sub-hunting technical innovations, he pursues the U-boat skippered by Robert Ehrenburg (Franz Dinda) on its secret mission in the South Atlantic. It transpires that Swinburne is on a revenge mission, following the death of his son in an Atlantic convoy that suffered a ghastly mauling at the hands of the Germans (this seems to be based on the real-life disaster of convoy PQ17). However, Swinburne is no mood to pick up survivors, and after the German skipper tauntingly tells him he has destroyed any useful secret information and is now his prisoner, Swinburne shoots him and his second-in-command dead. In the opening scenes, we see Swinburne’s destroyer HMS Perseverance hunting down a German submarine and forcing it to surrender. The murky collaboration between certain US businessmen and the Reich may yet come back to bite us.įor this third series, a further avenue opens up in the shape of Royal Navy Commander Jack Swinburne (Ray Stevenson). ![]() ![]() Previously, Das Boot (the TV show, dubbed Das Reboot in some quarters) has delved into the Nazi occupation of France and the activities of the Resistance, probed the personal and political antagonisms and affiliations of various representatives of the all-conquering Third Reich, and even managed to fit in a trip to the USA, where U-boat skipper Klaus Hoffman ended up after being cast adrift in mid-Atlantic. But he did call it “a journey to the edge of the mind”. This wasn’t a problem faced by Wolfgang Petersen when he made his original Das Boot movie in 1981, because the interior of a U-boat – U-96, to be specific – became the all-encompassing universe of his film. ![]()
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