If you can find this documentary to watch it is well worth your time. We all know how horrible WWII was but to see the following few years after 1945 and what went on in Europe, is something many have forgot about. The documentary shows how bad things were... Unreal footage and just a powerful documentary...
5 Reviews
Almost perfect
drjgardner27 July 2019
This documentary will take you further than any other documentary examining the post-war Europe and the emergence of the cold war. If there is any barely noticeable weakness in the film is that it tends to skip around a bit without any apparent rhyme or reason. Otherwise it is well done, great footage, and very informative.
Great watch
rambo-9179130 May 2019
Feeding my interest in the German transition from Nazism to "Other"
mbanak4 March 2017
Having seen numerous documentaries on the war, my interest is now focused on a quest to understand the transition from German confidence to post-war existence. My petty little research efforts have clustered around selected books (all of them excellent), and documentaries that never quite get beyond the edges. I have resigned myself to constructing the reality by aggregating information from a variety of sources.
This fine documentary covers material I have craved. My problem is that I don't know what I am missing until I find it. The sloshing humanity trying to repatriate across Europe in both directions, and the emergence of Germans as victims of reprisals, receive a fresh look. Lots of new unseen film, covering old themes is most welcome.
Glad I didn't have to edit this film. It would have drove me nuts to crowbar so many topics into a mere 90 minutes or so. And that's the only problem with this 10-grade film. Not long enough. Nevertheless, it is a welcome entry in my catalogue of pre/post-war transition films.
This fine documentary covers material I have craved. My problem is that I don't know what I am missing until I find it. The sloshing humanity trying to repatriate across Europe in both directions, and the emergence of Germans as victims of reprisals, receive a fresh look. Lots of new unseen film, covering old themes is most welcome.
Glad I didn't have to edit this film. It would have drove me nuts to crowbar so many topics into a mere 90 minutes or so. And that's the only problem with this 10-grade film. Not long enough. Nevertheless, it is a welcome entry in my catalogue of pre/post-war transition films.
Sensational footage
rmgaspar-49er17 January 2023
Assuming one got here has specific interest in WWII and what surrounds it.
This TV documentary (I found it in two parts of 45 min) brings images that made me stop to check if they were real or reenactments. Soon it becomes clear...it's all real. Not shocking images (just a few), but life in Germany and a few other places in Europe after the end.
How was it to reconstruct? How many children were parent-less? What happened to collaborators? Social changes/imrovements that only happened because there was a war.
Structure and narration anre pretty standard. They are there just to connect the original and colorized footage from different sources. They are the stars.
The only thing I miss was more info on where each part comes from, from when. A Reference. But that wouldn't be really cinematic. So, it's just about enjoying in awe.
This TV documentary (I found it in two parts of 45 min) brings images that made me stop to check if they were real or reenactments. Soon it becomes clear...it's all real. Not shocking images (just a few), but life in Germany and a few other places in Europe after the end.
How was it to reconstruct? How many children were parent-less? What happened to collaborators? Social changes/imrovements that only happened because there was a war.
Structure and narration anre pretty standard. They are there just to connect the original and colorized footage from different sources. They are the stars.
The only thing I miss was more info on where each part comes from, from when. A Reference. But that wouldn't be really cinematic. So, it's just about enjoying in awe.
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