
Das Boot(2018)
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.


“When the hunters become the hunted.”
Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.

Jürgen Prochnow
Der Alte

Herbert Grönemeyer
Leutnant Werner

Klaus Wennemann
Leitender Ingenieur

Hubertus Bengsch
Erster Wachoffizier

Martin Semmelrogge
Zweiter Wachoffizier

Bernd Tauber
Obersteuermann

Erwin Leder
Obermaschinist Johann

Martin May
Fähnrich Ullmann

Uwe Ochsenknecht
Bootsmann Lamprecht

Claude-Oliver Rudolph
Dieselheizer Ario
Das Boot is a drama, war & politics series that first aired in 1985 exploring themes of world war ii. Created by Wolfgang Petersen, it stars Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.
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