Das Boot

Andreas Prochaska's Das Boot (2018) launched on Sky Deutschland in November 2018 as a continuation of Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 film. It is set six months after the original, in the same French Atlantic port, and follows a different German U-boat on a different patrol. It won the Golden Camera Award for Best German Series in 2019, along with the Bavarian TV Awards, and ran for four seasons until 2024, by which time it had become one of the most widely exported German productions of recent years.

1942, La Rochelle in occupied France. Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Okon), a young first officer, takes command of U-612 for his first wartime patrol in the Atlantic. Ashore, his sister Simone (Vicky Krieps) works as a translator for the Gestapo, and a personal encounter with the local underground starts to draw her towards the French Resistance. Lizzy Caplan plays Carla Monroe, an American counter-intelligence officer sent to France to investigate operational leaks. The two storylines run side by side: the patrol out at sea, and the port's worsening political conditions back on land.

The series keeps faith with the register the 1981 film established, with U-boat interiors built as full sets, close attention to German naval history, and dialogue that moves between French and German. Krieps plays Simone as a woman caught between assimilation, family loyalty and clandestine work, and her performance anchors everything that happens ashore, while the scenes at sea are built on the claustrophobia of men sealed into a confined space.