Das Boot

Cover created in Canva. Source of images Portada creada en Canva. Fuente de las imágenes Recently, I watched a TV miniseries called “Das Boot”, which in English is known as The Submarine. This is a German series that began its transmission in 2018, was directed by Andreas Prochaska and also that it was made up of four seasons. The first two seasons had eight episodes, while the third and last one I watched had ten e…

The sea has always been associated with freedom, a vast ocean that has inspired many. As the saying goes, the sea is the last refuge of freedom but also its most ruthless executioner. Imagine a place where air is a luxury, where every sound can be a death sentence, and where camaraderie is the only light in suffocating darkness. Now, transport that image to the heart of a German submarine during World War II, where…

Let me start out by saying I was watching the director's cut, and that brings the total screen time to around 3 and a half hours which for me is honestly too long for almost any film that isn't *Lord of the Rings.* Hell, I'm a long-time Star Wars fan and I kind of groan about the director's cut of those films. It's just too long to be sitting somewhere watching the same thing. That being said, *Das Boot* is an absol…

*All Quiet on the Western Front* is considered to be the most iconic anti-war novel of all times. Cynics would say that making anti-war novel is much easier when written from the perspective of the losing side. This could also be applied to *Das Boot*, 1981 West German war epic written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, nowadays known as the best submarine film ever made. The plot begins in October 1941, roughly two…