Generation War

Generation War

2013
★★★★☆ 8.0/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 3 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 DE
⏱️ 90 min/episode
War & PoliticsDrama
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.

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Seasons

Season 1
2013 • 3 Episodes
1941. Shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, five close friends have a party in Berlin. The brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm are respectively an officer and enlisted man in the military. Viktor is a Jew who works as a tailor. Charlotte has just passed her examination to become a military nurse. Greta is a beautiful bartender who wishes to become a famous singer. The friends are hopeful that they will meet again by Christmas. Wilhelm and Friedhelm witness some early victories as the German army heads toward Moscow. Charlotte gets used to seeing blood as she works near the front-line. Greta sleeps with a major in the Gestapo to advance her career as a singer, and to obtain documents for Viktor to flee to New York City, since the rights of Jews are being diminished. However, Viktor is arrested by the Gestapo and is put on a train.

Cast

Volker Bruch
Volker Bruch
Wilhelm Winter
Tom Schilling
Tom Schilling
Friedhelm Winter
Katharina Schüttler
Katharina Schüttler
Greta Müller
Ludwig Trepte
Ludwig Trepte
Viktor Goldstein
Miriam Stein
Miriam Stein
Charlotte
Mark Waschke
Mark Waschke
Dorn

User Reviews

swiewior
★ 1/10
Why making historical TV series based on lies? The answer is simple: propaganda. The purpose of this short series is to make German viewers proud of their history and increase the feeling of national identity in the shade of horrible crimes committed by the whole Third Reich and create a picture of Nazi Germany as a pacifist nation. The scene of Polish partizans speaking incorrect Polish with broken accent (it seems that no Polish actor was willing to collaborate) antisemitic statements towards Jews and locking them back in a train full off ghetto survivors is yet another attempt of transferring blame about Holocaust to Poland, a policy Germany continues since 1950 when it began with term "Polish concentration camps", which is still actively in use today in German schools. To sum up, this 3-part movie is neither entertaining, nor historical. There is no reason to watch it other than to learn German propaganda.
June 27, 2023

Crew

Producer
Benjamin Benedict, Nico Hofmann, Jürgen Schuster

Network

ZDF

Production

ZDF, Beta Film, teamWorx

Keywords

berlin, germanyworld war iisoviet unionjew persecutionnazipartisanrussian historynazismmilitary hospital1940s