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Martin May (born 21 April 1961) is a German actor best known for his portrayal as "Midshipman Ullmann" in the submarine war classic Das Boot as well as several years of voice acting, including voicing Diesel in the German dub of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends . His live action work after Das Boot included mostly German television films.
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Das Boot is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and a TV miniseries (1985). There are also several different home video versions as well as a director's cut supervised by Petersen in 1997.
Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), and Poseidon (2006).
Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a German author, painter and Nazi propagandist. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for his 1973 novel Das Boot, which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film. His artworks, collected in a gallery on the banks of the Starnberger See, range from heavily decorated cars to a variety of mannequins seated or standing as if themselves visitors to the gallery, thus challenging the division between visitor and art work.
Dieter Bohlen is a German songwriter, producer, singer and television personality. He first achieved fame as a member of pop duo Modern Talking in the 1980s, and has since produced numerous German and international artists. He was also a judge on casting shows Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent, having been present on all seasons of both shows until 2021.
Martin Walser is a German writer.
Jürgen Prochnow is a German film, stage, and television actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Captain "Der Alte" in the 1981 war film Das Boot.
Ulrich Matthes is a German actor, possibly best-known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall.
Jost Vacano, BVK is a German retired cinematographer. His work included Das Boot, and he also worked together with director Paul Verhoeven on seven films, including RoboCop and Total Recall. He was also the cinematographer for The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum which he considers his favorite of his own films due to its timeless political message.
Wolfgang Kieling was a German actor.
"La Paloma", "The Dove" in English, is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was written by the Spanish Basque composer Sebastián Iradier around 1860 after a visit to Cuba. In 1879, it was registered at the copyright office in Madrid as a "Canción Americana con acompañamiento de Piano". Iradier was to die in obscurity within few years, never to learn how popular his song would become.
Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2006 Oscar-winning dramatic thriller Das Leben der Anderen , the 2010 three time Golden Globe nominated romantic thriller The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and the two-time Oscar-nominated 2018 epic drama Never Look Away.
Sky du Mont is a German-Argentine actor.
Thomas Fritsch was a German film, television and dubbing actor. He was regarded as the "Sonnyboy" in the German cinema of the 1960s, and became one of the best-known actors by his presence in television series. Later, he was the German voice of Russell Crowe, of Scar in The Lion King, and of Diego, a Smilodon, in Ice Age.
Martin Semmelrogge is a German actor, best known for his role as the comical Second Watch Officer in the film Das Boot. His character was based on the real life World War II submarine officer Werner Herrmann.
Bernd Tauber is a German actor. He is best known for his role as Navigator Kriechbaum in the 1981 film Das Boot.
Das Boot is the first album by German dance group U96, released in 1992. The track "Das Boot" is a cover version of the title theme of the 1981 German film Das Boot, composed by Klaus Doldinger. The name of the group (U96) is a reference to the film.
Divided Heaven is an East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf. It was released in 1964.
Der Handschuh is a composition by Graham Waterhouse. He wrote the setting of Friedrich Schiller's ballad for cello and speaking voice in 2005. It was published in 2007 in Heinrichshofen's Verlag.
Das Boot is a German television series produced for Sky One and a sequel to Das Boot (1981). Like the film, the series is based on Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 book Das Boot, but with additions from Buchheim's 1995 sequel Die Festung. As the original film's plot ends in December 1941, the series's setting takes place nine months later, in 1942. The storyline is split into two narratives, one based on land around the French Resistance, the other set around German U-boat U-612 and its crew. Season three was originally scheduled for 9 April 2022 but was pushed back to debut in Europe on 14 May. A source from broadcast network Sky cites sensitivities to the conflict in Ukraine as the reason for the five-week delay of the season three release. A fourth season has been ordered, with filming set to begin in June 2022.
Martin Patzelt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 2013 until 2021.
