Dresden (2006) (TV)

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 (International: English title) (USA) (DVD title)
Dresden - das Inferno (Germany)
Dresden: The Inferno (International: English title)

Runtime:

176 min | Finland:144 min (DVD)

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)

great movie who made you understand history

I think a documentary about the bombing of Dresden would not have had the same effect. When you are taken along in a story and you start to identify with the people involved the impact of the Dresden bombardment makes you understand and you sure will remember it. I did not like the fact that the movie was totally in German on TV - well why had they chosen English actors for the English roles then. But I was very happy with the DVD now as here I got what I had expected and which made the whole movie more real. The English really spoke English and the English pilot had the English accent when speaking his role. I have seen Dresden in 1992 and I have seen it today with the newly built church. But born in 1970 I had not much of an idea of what really had happened during WW II there. This movie made me understand. And I really liked that it showed both sides - The German and The English.