somewhere-at-sea:Can anyone view these? I don’t have access :(Rick: www.sky.de/programm-entd

somewhere-at-sea:Can anyone view these? I don’t have access :(Rick: https://www.sky.de/programm-entdecken/mediathek/videos-das-boot/5967941878001August: https://www.sky.de/programm-entdecken/mediathek/videos-das-boot/5967942323001And imagine if Klaus and Karl were actually allowed to smile in the series!Das Boot (2018)@somewhere-at-sea You asked, and you shall receive! Took me a moment, translating is harder than one might think. This may be a bit long, sorry. XDRick:I: With me now is the captain of the U-boat 612. Hello Mr. Kaleun.R: HelloI: Rick Okon, or Klaus Hoffmann, great that you’re here.R: I’m happy to be here.I: You’re a very young captain. How would you describe your role aboard this boat?R: As you said, my captain, Klaus Hoffmann is a relatively young captain, which will play a big role for the behaviour of the crew and also in his behaviour. It’s his first operation against the enemy as a captain, and so it’s a big topic that there’s a lot of pressure on him too.I: Now, he has this 1WO with whom life isn’t very easy, and he’s a lot older.R: Yea, there’s definitely a lot of tension between the captain and the first watch officer, also because a few of the crew members are of the opinion that it would have been the 1WO’s turn at being captain, and that will accumulate and lead to a lot of tension between the two. (Yea, Rick u already said tension like, five times.)I: The pressure that lies on this person, Klaus Hoffmann, is relatively big because he has a father who has achieved a lot, also as a U-boat captain in the first world war, and he struggles with that then and now and is confronted with it.R: That’s quite interesting because the character of the father never actually appears, they only ever talk about him and that means, because of that you can make him as big as you want and portray him as the greatest heroic person, which is really interesting because it means the ambivalence of my character quite big regarding the father, because of course there’s a lot of pressure on the father (I think he meant “because of the father”, but I’m gonna translate what he said) and everybody is talking about the father and are of the opinion the little one should, well the “little one” the son, should be able to do it just like his father. On the other hand, my character doesn’t have the best relationship to his father, and that will also play a role throughout the series how that develops and how it is dealt with.I: Now, we’re seeing here, below us the boat, or rather the interior of the boat which was built here in the studios in Prague. What was it like for you, when you were first allowed to go aboard your boat?R: Very exciting to be honest. It was very thrilling when we walked up these stairs and saw the different rooms, was very exciting, it made you a little tingly. And then we tried out the gimble right away, the hydraulics which controls the boat, and then from time to time you looked around and saw the other colleagues in costume and in makeup and thought this maybe isn’t too far from what it might have felt like. It was very exciting, very thrilling, yes.I: You just mentioned the hydraulics, it cannot only do normal wave motion, it has a lot of power when there is, through a depth charge, a lot of shaking.R: Exactly, there’s different levels. Soft gimble, hard gimble, and the tonnage so to say, when it’s really shaking and things are flying around, there’s water, glasses are falling, basically everything you can do with that movement to convey that feeling and then you have to hold onto something, you have to hold on to the machines in the rooms of the U-boat so you don’t lose grip, you don’t lose footing, which is obviously a great gift for an actor because we don’t have to (sway sway (that looked absolutely hilarious)) do something like that or the camera doesn’t have to do that, because it’s actually real, we try our best to replicate it.I: Yes, you can really imagine how it must have been back then, on board, horribly tight, horribly hot, horribly bad smelling, and you possibly had to stay under water for days.R: Yes, but I believe, even though we try our best to get as close to that as possible, we always have the option to go outside, get fresh air, drink something, to shower and whatever we do. But of course we try to get as close as possible, we also work a lot with smoke, with haze to create a better atmosphere and the lighting is really great, there’s red light, blue light, white light, also how it is in alarm mode, so you can try to do it justice as good as possible, even though I don’t think you can. No one can really imagine how it is to have been down there, especially during wartime.I: Prague is one of the filming locations of the series. What others are you going to see, or maybe which ones have already impressed you?R: We were in La Rochelle, which was very, very exciting, we filmed the arrival and the departure of our boat there with sunset and so on, that was pretty impressive and with a real u-boat on which we all stood and it sailed out of the harbour and on the pier, there were lots of people who waved to us and that was like “Ok, damn.” It was a very exciting day for me, I found it very thrilling.I: Now, soon you’ll also be going to Malta, that’s also surely an interesting combination with that pool that is, well, where exactly?R: Where exactly we’re going to film that I actually don’t know, I know it’s on Malta and that it’s set in a pool of water and we’ll be filming all scenes that are on deck or that are just, on the ocean, we’ll also sail out onto the ocean and film there. Here, right now, we’re filming all the interior scenes, because you as you can see, we can’t go outside. So, everything on the captain’s bridge will be filmed then. I’m also looking forward to that. I believe it will be a bit cold, a bit windy and wet, but exciting.I: As it should be.R: As it should be, yes.I: Rick, thank you very much for the interview and good luck!R: Thank you.August:I: With me now is August Wittgenstein, he plays the first watch officer aboard the boat. Karl Tennstedt is his name, what role exactly does he play?A: Karl Tennstedt is the first watch officer, and is after the Kaleun the most important officer on board, the “second in command” so to say.I: And the two of them do have a difficult relationship, to say it like that.A: Yea, it’s more like… No, yes, they do have a little bit of a rivalry going on, I’m a little bit older than the Kaleun and obviously feel like I should naturally be the commander on this boat, I’m obviously much more qualified, but yes, the track of confrontation kind of runs over that.I: What was it like, when you first set foot on board the ship?A: So, here it was quite special, I’ve known for quite a while that I would be playing this role and was looking forward to it a lot but the really great moment was, when we were in La Rochelle in those U-boat bunkers, and I had my first day of filming in this enormous bunker system in La Rochelle, a ginormous perimeter, and in this bunker there was this old, this replicated U-boat, I think my first scene was a steady-cam shot where the camera is following me and how I walk through the whole thing and I see the boat there and over me there is welding going on and there are torpedoes hanging here and there. And here I thought, that’s really a big thing. It was, as an actor, a really special experience.I: Now, there is in the series a new plot strand, which is happening in La Rochelle, it’s the Resistancé that is kind of introduced there a bit closer. Can you tell us anything about that yet?A: Yes, I obviously know the story, I know the books/scripts (I’m not sure which one he meant here), however I saw little of the filming. I think it’s really great that we have the option to bring in some female characters into the story because I believe there was very few of those in the original story, a few singers in a French milieu of prostitution otherwise there were few women. Story wise it’s incredibly interesting, it’s also very nicely connected through Leonard Scheicher who plays Frank Strasser, the connection to the mainland so to say, his sister who operates there with her little story, or big story.I: Played by Vicky Krieps.A: Vicky Krieps, great actress who I also saw way too little but she seems very sympathetic, great attitude and obviously Lizzy Caplan who I still know from many American series. Sadly, I never got to meet her, but maybe there will be another possibility in future.I: There is definitely a lot we are personally really looking forward to, thank you a lot, August Wittgenstein.A: My pleasure.I: And we’re excited to see what will happen. Thank you for the interview.A: You’re welcome. -- source link

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