Finally! The long expected sequel to "Das Boot" in the Movies!

[Dowly]

Whoa! Bernard finally got his own movie! And almost for his Birthday too!

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Whoa! Bernard finally got his own movie! And almost for his Birthday too!

in Bernard's case the end line of the trailer must say

''This disaster is going to hit cinema's near you!''

HunterICX

[Task Force]

One day the a U boats worst nightmare the next day a movie star.

[robbierob2005]

Can't wait to see it. haha. A bernard version of das Boot

[bookworm_020]

Will The Villiage People be putting on a show in the forward torpedo room???:hmm:

[LaughingSwordfish]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Glad to see Muammar Qaddafi found productive work in the film industry.

It was the first thing I noticed too:rotfl:

[Drakken]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

LOl my first thought was

How in the hell can they have a sequal to Das Boot when everyone died well except the politbureau guy.

Did we watch the same movie?

Both Leutnant Werner and Der Alte are still alive at the end in Das Boot. Buchheim has written two sequels with both characters...

Also, many "lovable" characters are inferred to have survived in the movie: The Chief Enginner, Pilgrim and Frenssen, Kreichsbaum... even the First Officer is not shown to have died, which infers that he has also survived.

[Sailor Steve]

True. It looked like the Kaleun died, but that's exactly how the scene played in the book, and, as you say, he survived for two sequels. Since the sequels apparently have never been released in English, can you or anyone tell how he handled the 'resurrection'?

At the end of the movie the only characters fairly obviously dead are...well, if somebody hasn't seen the movie after 26 years, I'll still be polite and not spoil it.

Oh, and you mention the First Officer. Do you mean the Nazi? He's very obviously alive at the end; no inferrence needed.

[gandalf71]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

True. It looked like the Kaleun died, but that's exactly how the scene played in the book, and, as you say, he survived for two sequels. Since the sequels apparently have never been released in English, can you or anyone tell how he handled the 'resurrection'?
...

Hi

please keep in mind that "Das Boot" is a novel, even though a very realistic one.
The story has a fictional closed end and the two other books from Buchheim are not really sequels to "Das Boot", even though you can see it like a kind of trilogy.

The first one "Die Festung" is more autobiographic and describes the experiences Buchheim made during the later course of the war and shows Buchheims reception of the nazi regime. With himself sitting between the chairs of believing in the "Endsieg", personified through his friend- or comradeship to Lehmann-Willenbrock/"Der Alte" on the one side and his sympathy to the resistance, personified through his and Lehmann-Willenbrock´s, more or less common french girlfriend on the other side.

"Die Festung" ends with many open questions, which Buchheims partly deals with in his final book "Der Abschied".
This book is basically a travelogue of a sea journey from Hamburg to Durban in the late 70´s, the ship´s captain is again "Der Alte" and Buchheim has long talks with him, through which he wants to reflect their relationship in the past, during the war and their perception of the present.

Both books are quite clumsy to read, you won´t miss much i fyou don´t read them.

Cheers,
Michael

[Sailor Steve]

Ah, I see more clearly now. Thank you.

Originally Posted by gandalf71

Both books are quite clumsy to read, you won´t miss much i fyou don´t read them.

That still doesn't stop me from wanting too.