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Wartime
drama serial. Stories of a
German U-Boat crew during the
second world war.
REGULAR
CAST
JURGEN
PROCHNOW as Der Kapitan /
HERBERT GRUNEMEYER as Lt Werner
/ KLAUS WENNEMANN as Chief
Engineer / HUBERTUS BENGSCH as
First Lt / MARTIN SEMMELROGGE as
Second Lt / BERND TAMBER as
Bridge Officer / MARTIN MAY as
Ullman / EDWIN LEDER as Johann
PRODUCTION
DETAILS
Writer/Director:
Wolfgang Petersen / Creator:
Lothar Gunther Buchhein / Producer:
Gunther Rohrbach / Music:
Klaus Doldinger / Costume:
Monika Bauert / Camera:
Jost Vacano
West
Germany / Bavaria-Atelier-BBC-TFI-WDR-Sudfunk
Stuttgart / 6x60m-e / 1984
1.
ONE
In
Autumn 1941, following a hectic
drink filled night ashore, war
correspondent Lt Werner joins
the officers and crew aboard
German submarine U-96 and is
soon shocked by the conditions
the crew have to live and work
in. The sub embarks on an attack
on a British ship.
With:-
OTTO SANDER as Captain Thomsen /
MARYLINE MOULARD as Francoise /
RITA CADILLAL as Monique / JAN
FEDDER as Pilgrim / JOACHIM
BERNHARD as Bible Student / ARNO
KRAI as Hagen
2.
TWO
Werner
is frustrated by life aboard the
submarine but then the Captain
learns of an enemy convoy.
3.
THREE
The
sub attacks the British Convoy
it has been chasing but the crew
then comes under attack from a
destroyer.
4.
FOUR
The
sub, seeking escape from the
enemy destroyer, dives deep but
is still unable to get away.
5.
FIVE
With
the crew headed for Spain (a
neutral country) the Captain
radios for a replacement chief
engineer. The sub then comes
under another attack, this time
in the straights of Gibraltar.
6.
SIX
Having
been hit in the straights of
Gibraltar the crew face a
desperate battle to repair the
sub before their air runs out.
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