When Bavaria Fiction executive producer Moritz Polter looks out at the company’s backlot from his office window, he can see the original sets built for “Das Boot,” the classic 1981 movie set in the ...

France during World War II is the setting for the German TV series “Das Boot,” a sequel to the blockbuster 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film that was nominated for six Academy Awards. It’s now available on ...

Legendary German saxophonist and composer Klaus Doldinger, renowned for his iconic soundtracks for 'Das Boot' and 'The NeverEnding Story', has passed away at 89. His family confirmed his death on ...

The American moviegoing public has never been especially enthusiastic about foreign-language films, but every now and then, a subtitled movie does cross over from the arthouse to the mainstream. The ...

Das Boot, the eight-episode miniseries being distributed in the US by Hulu, will not be a remake of the 1981 German classic, rather it will act as a sequel, taking place a year after the original film ...

For much of his Hollywood career, German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen was a maestro of cascading water and pulverized metal. He could conjure disasters both natural and man-made, whether he was scaring ...

Another hotly anticipated TV spinoff, this time a small-screen adaptation of Wolfgang Petersen’s celebrated 1981 film ‘Das Boot,’ fails to deliver. Entertainment Critic We live in an age of sequels, ...

War fanatics have flocked to praise another film they have branded an "absolute masterpiece". Set during World War II, Das Boot follows the crew of the German submarine U-96 as they embark on a ...

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