PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DAS BOOT WW2 EPIC TV SERIES SEASON 2 WITH TOM WLASCHIHA, VICKY KRIEPS, THOMAS KRETSCHMANN, VINCENT KARTHEISER

'DAS BOOT' SEASON 2

The second season is already airing in Germany

READY TO AIR THIS SPRING!

Back in 2018 your trusted spy was among the first ones to inform you about Sky's award winning DAS BOOT World War II series which proved to be a big success for the production company airing on Sky's channels around Europe and Hulu in USA. Now the series is back with the second season which is airing right now on Sky Germany and will air this month on cable channels around Europe too and Sky's channels in Austria, Italy, UK and Ireland. Beside Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Rick Okon, Vincent Kartheiser, the eight episode second season will also have Thomas

Tom Wlaschiha returns as the head of the Gestapo

 Kretschmann as the new addition to the cast! Speaking of epic, stay tuned this weekend for Hollywood Spy's Wildly Extensive List of Period Set Shows we can expect in 2020 albeit corona lockdown.

 The 2nd Season Of Das Boot
is set in December 1942. We meet the very experienced U-boat ace Johannes von Reinhartz (Clemens Schick) who is sent with U-822 on a secret mission

German superstar Thomas Kretschmann joins the cast

to the US East Coast in order to disembark three saboteurs. His loyalty is questioned and U-612, with its Commanding Officer Wrangel (Stefan

German actor Rick Okon returns as the submarine officer

Konarske), is sent in pursuit. Former U-612 Commanding Officer Hoffmann (Rick Okon) narrowly escaped death in the Atlantic Ocean. In New York he finds shelter with Sam Greenwood (Vincent Kartheiser), who owes his life

German superstar Clemens Schick leads the cast of the second season

to Hoffmann, and meets the sleazy German-born lawyer Berger (Thomas Kretschmann). Will he enable him to return to Germany? Back in La Rochelle, Simone (Vicky Krieps) is still secretly helping those affected by the

The first season was sold to more than 100 countries and was so successful that Sky ordered the second season after airing the first episode of the first one.

Nazi occupation, and Forster (Tom Wlaschiha), Head of the Gestapo, suspects as much, as Simone and her roommate Margot (Fleur Geffrier) work to secure an escape route for a Jewish family.

FIRST TEASERS AND PHOTOS FROM 'DAS BOOT' WW2 TV SERIES WITH TOM WLASCHIHA, JAMES D'ARCY, VINCENT KARTHEISER, LIZZY CAPLAN!

   'DAS BOOT' TV SERIES

WHEN BOYS BECAME MEN

Das Boot hits Sky this November

Your treat for this Saturday are new photos and the first trailer for World War II German TV series DAS BOOT which will hit Sky One (in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Italy) November 23rd and will later also air on Hulu in Northern America, AMC in Spain and Portugal and Epix and Viasat in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe! The series, which explores the emotional torment of life during World War Two, cost $33 million to make and is inspired by Lothar Günther Buchheim’s best selling novel which was

Das Boot series will also air on Hulu in Northern America

previously made into an Oscar nominated movie by Wolfgang Petersen! Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Lizzy Caplan, Vincent Kartheiser, James

These Uboat submarines were active from the first till the last day of the war

D’Arcy, Thierry Frémont, August Wittgenstein, Rainer Bock, Rick Okon, Leonard Scheicher, Robert Stadlober, Franz Dinda and Stefan Konarske, are just of the names in the international cast!

DAS BOOT TV SERIES
 starts in the fall of 1942 in occupied France. Nazi submarine U-612 is ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen, including the new commander, Klaus Hoffmann

German submariners had the lowest survival rate of any branch of service of any country during World War Two. Of the some 40,000 men who served on U-boats, 33,000 were killed.

(Rick Okon). As the 40 young men take on their first mission, they struggle with the cramped and claustrophobic conditions of life underwater. Meanwhile, at the port of La Rochelle, the world of Simone Strasser spirals out of control as she is engulfed in a dangerous liaison and forbidden love, torn between her loyalty for Germany and the French Resistance, and causing her to question everything.

WW2 TUESDAY: EDDIE IZZARD, JUDI DENCH, JAMES D'ARCY, JIM BROADBENT VS NAZIS IN 'SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT' PERIOD SET THRILLER! 1ST PHOTO FROM 'DAS BOOT' TV SERIES WITH JAMES D'ARCY, TOM WLASCHIHA, VINCENT KARTHEISER

  'SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT' 

WITH EDDIE IZZARD, JUDI DENCH, JAMES D'ARCY, JIM BROADBENT

James D'Arcy will play a Captain in the movie

We're still sticking to our good old period set drama genre with the news that the shooting has begun on SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT which boasts an exquisite selection of British thespians in the cast lead by Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, James D'Arcy, Celyn Jones (who also wrote the script) and Jim Broadbent!

In the movie,  based on true events from 1939, Izzard, who recently already played with Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul, plays a teacher named Thomas Miller who has taken a last minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high ranking Nazis at the Augusta

Judi Dench will be the strict headmistress!

Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England. Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of German womanhood. When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it triggers a sequence of deadly events and leaves Thomas running from the police with the threat of being hanged for murder.

  WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES

FIRST PHOTO EMERGES!

Speaking of James D'Arcy check out the first photo from DAS BOOT TV series  which also stars Tom Wlaschiha, Vincent Kartheiser and Thierry Frémont alongside Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of

Franz Dinda, Rick Okon and August Wittgenstein in Das Boot

the same name from Wolfgang Petersen, the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942, as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.

EUROPEAN EPIC SERIES: JAMES D'ARCY, TOM WLASCHIHA, VINCENT KARTHEISER JOIN WW2 'DAS BOOT' TV SERIES! MATTEO MARTARI JOINS 'MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE: THE MAGNIFICENT' SEASON 2

  MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE

MATTEO MARTARI IS YOUNG PAZZI

While we're waiting for some new photos from the second season of MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE: THE MAGNI- FICENT

Matteo is also a male super model

(which should be released next week at MIPCOM, and we might also get something new from Britannia, The Miniaturist series as well) a new face has joined the cast: Matteo Martari will play Francesco Pazzi and will be the villain of the series alongside Sean Bean as his power thirsty father. As you know the second season, which is currently shooting in Italy, will follow Lorenzo (Daniel Sharman) and Gulianno Medici (Bradley James), the grandsons of Cosimo who was played by Richard Madden in the first season which you can still catch on Netflix.

  WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES

 JAMES D'ARCY, TOM WLASCHIHA, VINCENT KARTHEISER CAST

James D'Arcy will be a part of the cast

Speaking of European epic series, a rather stellar cast has been rounded up for DAS BOOT from Bavaria Fernsehproduktion, Sky Deutschland and Sonar Entertainment! International cast will include Game of Thrones' Tom Wlaschiha, Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser, James D’Arcy and Thierry Frémont alongside Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of the same name from Wolfgang Petersen, the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942, as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.