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olfgang Petersen’s Das Boot is regarded as one of the finest German films of all time. So, understandably, there is a lot of pressure for the producers of upcoming TV series Das Boot to deliver a worthy successor to the 1981 war film.
The USD32m eight-part submarine drama is set in autumn 1942, months after Petersen’s movie ended, just as the tide is turning against the German war effort. The star of the show is undoubtedly the U-Boat itself. The one used for external scenes took two
months to refurbish and weighed 240 tons (it was previously used in the 2000 film U-571), and the internal U-Boat set took 15 weeks to build. The drama shot over 105 days in four locations: Prague, La Rochelle, Munich and Malta. The pictures below are from the Malta leg of the shoot. The open water scenes were shot around the island and at the huge water tank at Malta Film Studios.
turn to paGe 87 for a Q&a With the shoW’s producer moritz polter.
The series is a co-production between Bavaria Fiction, Sky Deutschland and Sonar Entertainment, and will air across Sky’s five European territories this autumn.
Images: ©Nik Konietzny / Bavaria Fiction GmbH
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