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 ...

It’s 1942 and the war is no longer going well for the German “wolf-packs”—U-boats, tasked with sinking Allied supply ships. They’re vulnerable targets now thanks to the cracking of the Enigma code, ...

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 ...

The director Wolfgang Petersen set a new standard for claustrophobia in cinema with his international breakthrough movie Das Boot (1981). Taking place almost entirely on board a German submarine ...

Classic German drama Das Boot - the unrelentingly claustrophobic epic from Wolfgang Petersen - is to get a follow-up in the form of a television miniseries. If you haven't watched the film since its ...

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 ...

Wolfgang Petersen, who rode his acclaimed German-language film “Das Boot” into a career directing Hollywood blockbusters such as “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One,” “The Perfect Storm” and “Troy,” ...

Das Boot is a German televisions series and is a sequel to the 1981 Oscar-nominated movie Das Boot. The series has already begun airing in Germany and airs every Wednesday on Sky Atlantic in the UK at ...