Das Boot

Andreas Prochaska's Das Boot (2018) launched on Sky Deutschland in November 2018 as a sequel-extension to Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 film, set six months after the events of the original on the same Atlantic-coast French port and following a different German U-boat patrol. The series won the Golden Camera Award for Best German Series in 2019 and the Bavarian TV Awards. The series ran for four seasons until 2024 and became one of the most internationally exported recent German productions.

1942, La Rochelle in occupied France. Klaus Hoffmann (Rick Okon), a young German U-boat first officer, takes command of his first wartime patrol of U-612 in the Atlantic. Ashore in La Rochelle, his sister Simone (Vicky Krieps) is working as a translator for the German naval administration but is gradually drawn into the French Resistance after a personal encounter with the local underground. Lizzy Caplan plays the American counter-intelligence officer Carla Monroe, sent to France to investigate operational leaks. The series follows the two storylines in parallel across the patrol's mission and the port's deteriorating political conditions.

The series's commitment to U-boat-interior set construction, German-naval-historical accuracy and bilingual French-German dialogue produced a register that the original 1981 film had established and which the series largely sustains. Krieps's central performance as Simone — caught between assimilation, family loyalty, and clandestine work — anchors the series's domestic-front material, with the U-boat patrol material structured around the operational claustrophobia of confined-space drama.