Many Polish viewers were outraged at the depiction of Poles as anti-semites. The series was awarded the Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2013 (German Television Award) for the best multi-part television film of 2013. When the series aired in Germany in March 2013, each episode had some 7 million viewers. This part of the script was changed to a solution which could be produced on already available locations. Originally, Viktor was to escape to France and finally to return as a regular soldier with the US Army. It was filmed in sound stages and backlots at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam and on location in Germany, Lithuania, and Latvia. Generation War is an UFA production, formally known as TeamWorx. However, aspects such as the portrayal of the Polish resistance movement as anti-semites, the scant depiction of Nazi Germany’s objective to purge the Reich of Jews, and the blurring of differences between non-German victims and German perpetrators have been deplored by others. Critics have acknowledged the film to be well crafted, intense and unsparing in its depiction of combat on the eastern front. The Economist stated that hardly any German TV drama ever caused so much public debate. Generation War has generated much controversy. Florian Andreas Rittweger: German traitor.Martin Hentschel: the officer who commits suicide.Jean Denis Römer : Russian officer in the hospital.Hildegard Schroedter: German head nurse.Lucas Gregorowicz: Polish partisan leader.Alina Levshin: Alina, a Pole from Warsaw.Sylvester Groth: Sturmbannführer / Standartenführer Hiemer.The film conveys that, and yet does not gloss-over the forced use of the Heer by the RSHA to augment the Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine, and Poland. Not all Germans were NSDAP members, or anti-Semites. There are three 90 minute parts: A Different Time (Eine andere Zeit), A Different War (Ein anderer Krieg), and A Different Country (Ein anderes Land). The story’s conclusion is set shortly after the end of the war in 1945. The narrative spans four years, starting in 1941 Berlin, when the friends meet up for a last time before embarking on their journeys, enthusiastically vowing to meet up again the following Christmas.
The series tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II: as Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern Front, a war nurse, an aspiring singer, and a Jewish tailor. Generation War (German: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, translated as “Our Mothers, our Fathers”) is a German World War II TV miniseries in three parts.
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