Dresden (2006) (TV)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Roland Suso Richter

Writer:

Stefan Kolditz (writer)

Release Date:

5 March 2006 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | War

Plot:

A romance between a British pilot hiding in Germany and a German nurse is shown on the background of massive allied bombing of Dresden towards the end of World War 2.

Plot Keywords:

Bombing | Dresden Germany | Melodrama | Kitsch | Fire

Awards:

3 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Felicitas Woll	...	Anna Mauth
John Light	...	Robert Newman
Benjamin Sadler	...	Alexander Wenninger
Heiner Lauterbach	...	Carl Mauth
Katharina Meinecke	...	Magda Mauth
Marie Bäumer	...	Maria Goldberg
Kai Wiesinger	...	Simon Goldberg
Wolfgang Stumph	...	Pfarrer
Jürgen Heinrich	...	Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann
Susanne Bormann	...	Eva Mauth
Paul Ready	...	William
John Keogh	...	Flight Lt. Leslie, Master Bomber
Christian Rodska	...	Arthur Harris
Anja Taschenberg	...	Grashena
Pip Torrens	...	Saundby

Also Known As:

Dresden - das Inferno (Germany)

Runtime:

Germany:180 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Finland:K-13 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

EOS Entertainment

Trivia:

The character of Simon Goldberg was based on diarist and professor Victor Klemperer.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Simon Goldberg, the Jewish character based on the historical Viktor Klemperer, lives with his non-Jewish wife in an apartment that they have for their own. By early 1945, the real Viktor Klemperer, a Jew who had converted to Protestantism, lived with his non-Jewish wife Eva perched in a so-called "Judenhaus," a house where numerous Jewish families had been put up and kept with only basic provisions. For years, families like that of Viktor Klemperer had been isolated from the non-Jewish German population, and it would have been unthinkable for the wife of a Jewish German to work at a hospital.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Neues aus der Anstalt: Jahresabschluss-Therapie (#1.10)" (2007)

Excellent cast in a convincing anti-war drama

A fictional love drama set on the background of Dresden at the end of World War II achieves to illuminate the complexity of human characters under the life-threatening terror of the Nazi-regime and the war.

The excellent cast with Felicitas Woll, John Light and Benjamin Sadler as main figures involve the viewer into a very personal drama. As the screenplay avoids black-and-white-painting, multi-layered characters invite the viewer to a differentiating point of view.

Realistic fire-scenes, carefully computer-animated flying-sequences and the participation of both British and German historians in pre-production contribute to a gripping movie about a sensitive point in German history.