An inexperienced uboat 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. It is nearly 5 hours long, but it is well worth watching, it follows the patrol of a german u boat during world war 2. The crew of famous submarine under the leadership of captain klaus hoffmann is to go through more complicated things and armed clashes. A new hulu series revives the popular world war ii submarine saga, with some changes. All the major themes are present in the 2hr version, but another dimension. Filming in malta brought a 105day shoot to an end, and the german, french, and englishlanguage. You will require a multiregion dvd player and a pal compatible tv to view. The film was an international success when it appeared nearly 30 years ago.
While originally shown as six 50 minute episodes, there are no such divisions on the dvd version, the whole film flowing as one, apart from a rather. It was already released as a tv mini series in the nineties, but now its gets it own sequel as a series. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. It shows you what life aboard a submarine during world war 2 was. Its not critical to have seen the original movie though fans of. The action takes place in 1942 a few months after the allies managed to crack the code of enigma. Released to cinemas worldwide in 1997, this cut combines the action sequences seen in the featurelength version with character development scenes contained in the mini series. The 293minute version provides more information about individual crew members and. This will not play on most dvd players sold in the u.
That said the series was entertaining giving an insight to the life and death struggle of ww2, but alas the series being frustratingly cut short, leaving unanswered of how the abandoned co hoffmann miraculously survived and reached america, with now explanation or of the future consequences of those who abandoned him. The tvseries is set 9 months after the original movie and include two storylines. A new wave of antinazi movement began in the occupied territories. It has the swaggering certainty of a blockbuster movie. In 1997 wolfgang petersen made a new directors cut edit for a theatrical reissue. Both the movie and the series are drawn from lothargunther buchheims 1973 novel. During the autumn of 1942, in the unrelenting deep ocean waters, uboat captain ulrich wrangel and his men are caught in battle with a us frigate. Hulu just started airing the third season of the handmaids tale, another novelturnedfilmturned series. The series premiered on 23 november 2018 on sky one in germany. Betz con vicky krieps simone strasser, august wittgenstein karl tennstedt. This is a story of hard choice, survival, the limit of. Footage, sets and models from that movie have been reused for other. The material is so important, and the story so complex, that the film improves with each longer version.