Dresden (TV 2006)

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.

Director:

Roland Suso Richter

Writers:

Stefan Kolditz, Nikolaus Kraemer (idea by)

Stars:

Felicitas Woll, John Light, Benjamin Sadler

3 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Like other TV movies of the production company teamWorx, Dresden focuses on an extraordinary historic event in connection with a tragic love story of a woman between two men. In January 1945, the young nurse Anna Mauth, working at a hospital in Dresden, becomes engaged to senior physician Benjamin Wenninger. At the same time, an English Lancaster bomber is shot down. The pilot Robert Newman, the only survivor, manages to reach the city severely injured and hides in the hospital's cellar. Anna discovers him incidentally thinking he is a German deserter, but finally decides to help Robert...

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Plot Keywords:

dresden | bombing | kitsch | 1940s | melodrama | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance | War

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [de]

Country:

Germany

Language:

German English

Release Date:

5 March 2006 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Dresden: The Inferno

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

€10,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

EOS Entertainment, teamWorx Produktion für Kino und Fernsehen GmbH

Technical Specs

Runtime:

176 min 144 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

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

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Goofs

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.

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Connections

Referenced in 3satfestival: Rainald Grebe & Die Kapelle der Versöhnung - 1968 (2008)

User Reviews

Good to see for anyone who's interested in the bombing of Dresden

I have no idea how historically accurate this movie is, but it gives a good idea of what the bombing of Dresden was like. Yes, there's all sorts of drama and even romance woven into the plot. To me that's expected, otherwise it would be a documentary and maybe even boring. It's really well done for a TV film. The acting is good. The storyline is believable. The effects are very realistic. I don't think this movie was made so that Germans can feel sorry for their suffering under Hitler. Instead, I think it's an acknowledgement of the suffering and it gives the current and future generations a view of the horror of the past. I wish there were stuff of this caliber made for American TV. I hope this gets released with English subtitles so that English speaking audiences get to see it.