Grünwald / Unterföhring– Bavaria Film and Sky Deutschland are currently developing an international event series Das Boot. It is based on the books Das Boot and Die Festung from Lothar-Günther Buchheim and is conceived as a sequel to the 1981 global blockbuster film. The series picks up on the events that happened at the end of the movie. The crew of the “U 96” returns to La Rochelle in 1942 and is immediately exposed to a severe air raid on the submarine harbour. A portion of the crew is killed.

As with the bestselling novels from Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Das Boot – The Series focuses primarily on the German perspective of the even increasingly brutal submarine warfare that takes place from 1942 onward. The point of view expands to also include the French Resistance and the Allied Forces on both land and sea. At the centre of all this is Buchheim’s central theme, which unfortunately has not lost its relevance in today’s era of terrorism: the blind fanaticism that drives young men into a senseless war.