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Generation War

Original title: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
  • TV Mini Series
  • 20132013
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 4h 30m
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8.4/10
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Generation War (2013)
Generation War
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Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
IMDb RATING
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31K
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2,508
67
  • Stars
    • Volker Bruch
    • Tom Schilling
    • Katharina Schüttler
  • Stars
    • Volker Bruch
    • Tom Schilling
    • Katharina Schüttler
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    • 57Metascore
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    Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte, and Volker Bruch in Generation War (2013)
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    Volker Bruch
    Volker Bruch
    • Wilhelm Winter
    Tom Schilling
    Tom Schilling
    • Friedhelm Winter
    Katharina Schüttler
    Katharina Schüttler
    • Greta
    Miriam Stein
    Miriam Stein
    • Charlotte
    Ludwig Trepte
    Ludwig Trepte
    • Viktor Goldstein
    Mark Waschke
    Mark Waschke
    • Dorn
    Henriette Richter-Röhl
    Henriette Richter-Röhl
    • Hildegard
    Götz Schubert
    Götz Schubert
    • Dr. Jahn
    Hildegard Schroedter
    Hildegard Schroedter
    • Oberschwester
    Christiane Paul
    Christiane Paul
    • Lilja
    Sylvester Groth
    Sylvester Groth
    • Hiemer
    Alina Levshin
    Alina Levshin
    • Alina
    Lucas Gregorowicz
    • Jerzy
    Maxim Mehmet
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    • Hauptmann Feigl
    Adam Markiewicz
    Adam Markiewicz
    • Stanislawski
    Johanna Gastdorf
    Johanna Gastdorf
    • Friedhelms Mutter
    Peter Kremer
    • Vater Winter
    Trystan Pütter
    Trystan Pütter
    • Bertok
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      The town of Kurchatov is indeed near Kursk but it was founded in 1968 around a nuclear power plant.
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    9/10
    What WWII was for the ordinary German
    Like a mirror image of Der Untergang, the film depicts the lives of ordinary German people during the same period and shown with the same brutal honesty. It should also be based on real life events, since at the end they show how much each of the protagonists lived.

    The plot revolves around five friends, in their late teens and early twenties, happily partying before some of them are sent to the front for the war that "would end by Christmas". There are two brothers, sons of an asshole father who loves just one of them. The unloved one naturally is an intellectual and an artist, while the other is the pride of his father. Then there are two girls, one wishing to become a star like Marlene Dietrich and another preparing to go to the front as a nurse to help the fatherland. Also in their group of friends is the boyfriend of the wannabe starlet, who is also a Jew.

    Now, they all start with expectations, the first being that the war will be swift and won by Germany. Other such expectations reduce the rate of violence related deaths in a war, make Germans leave nice Jews alone, applaud the loving and caring nature of humans everywhere and . The war changes all of those in a gruesome three parter film that lasts for almost five hours. Years later, when the war is actually over, they meet at the café where they optimistically planned to party that first Christmas, their souls and lives in tatters.

    The story is complex, the script well done, the war effects and related scenes are realistic, the characters are human and change a lot through the film, the acting is exceptional. It is certainly at least one order of magnitude better than most American war movies, perhaps because the sense of hopelessness given by a war lost (morally at least) way before it began gives everything an uncomfortably realistic grit. Any acts done in the name of god and country look and feel completely stupid and pointless, and are not sold as heroic drama moments. Good guys don't always make it and bad guys escape unpunished.

    If you like war movies this is a good one and I submit that this film will appeal even to people who don't generally watch the genre - like myself. It also makes me want to watch more German films in the hope that they would be just as good.
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      • March 1, 2013 (Germany)
      • Germany
      • UFA (Germany)
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Paul Wegmann Schule, Zeitz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
      • teamWorx Television & Film
      • Beta Film
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    • 4 hours 30 minutes
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