D.AS BOOT
Genre: dramatic, warlike
Direction: Johannes W. Betz and Tony Sant. With Tom Wlaschiha, Franz Dinda, Rick Okon. On Sky Atlantic
The young protagonists of the third season of “Das Boot” (© Sky Deutschland / Bavaria Fiction Gmbh / Stephan Rabold).
In the increasingly composite and fragmented panorama of contemporary seriality, there are products that remain and strike for their ability to confirm themselves and improve season after season.
One of the most successful series of recent years is undoubtedly Das Boot, Franco-German creation set (mainly) aboard a submarine during the Second World War.
Strong of the solid narrative system that inspired it (the novels by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and the famous 1981 film U-Boot directed by Wolfgang Petersen), the series is a happy example of how seriality can draw from the past while always keeping the quality and construction of imaginaries valid.
A moment from the third season of “Das Boot” (© Sky Deutschland / Bavaria Fiction Gmbh / Stephan Rabold).
In this third series, a new submarine is prepared by German officers, while a relevant part of the narrative moves to Lisbon, home to new intrigues and plots.
What leaps to the eye in the evolution of Das Boot is thereto the quality of photography, the complexity of relationshipsthe successful idea of focusing on the dialogues and characterizations of the characters as a way out of an otherwise claustrophobic narrative and still in narrow spaces.
The character that stands out is that of Ehrenberg (Franz Dinda), violent and contradictory, here even more at the center of a complex path of transformation.
For fans of the great classics and for those who love war and strategy stories.
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