GENERATION WAR

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• Release Year: 2013
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Plot: Berlin 1941. Hitler is about to invade the Soviet Union, and five young Germans eagerly await a glorious future: patriotic Wehrmacht lieutenant Wilhelm heads to the Eastern Front with his bookish younger brother Friedhelm in pursuit of the “final victory;” bright eyed Charlotte volunteers as a field nurse to serve the brave German men and chanteuse Greta aspires to be the next Marlena Dietrich. Only resourceful tailor Viktor, a Jew, begins to sense the impending horrors…; Featuring terrifyingly realistic battles staged “with Private Ryan-like intensity and precision” (The New York Times), Generation War examines the atrocities of the Third Reich on both grand and personal levels, depicting the nationalist fervor, human betrayals, and eventual crumbling ideology of the German people through the story of five diverging lives. Hailed as “a turning point” in the conversation surrounding Germany’s legacy of guilt (Der Spiegel), Generation War is a groundbreaking epic that shows WWII from a never-before-seen perspective.
• Cast: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte, Mark Waschke, Henriette Richter-Röhl, Götz Schubert, Hildegard Schroedter, Christiane Paul, Sylvester Groth, Alina Levshin, Lucas Gregorowicz, Maxim Mehmet, Adam Markiewicz, Johanna Gastdorf, Peter Kremer, Trystan Pütter, David Zimmerschied, Joel Basman, Anne Diemer, Karina Plachetka, Judith Engel, Samuel Finzi, Janusz Cichocki, Dorka Gryllus, Bernd Michael Lade, Inga Jarkova, Marek Harloff, Tino Mewes, Antonio Wannek, Merle Dissen, Paul Maaß, Benjamin Trinks, Ludwig Blochberger, Laurens Walter, Martin Bruchmann, Kai Michael Müller, Lioba Ravén Engel, Eckehard Hoffmann, Valentin Novopolskij, Thomas Arnold, Franziska Böhm, Michael Ihnow, Jan Niklas Berg, Bernhard Conrad, Kristoffer Fuss, Matthias Halbrock, Martin Hentschel, Bruno Montani, Jean Denis Römer, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Philipp Kadelbach, Stefan Kolditz
• Director: Philipp Kadelbach
• Runtime: 4:39
• Company: Music Box Films, Teamwork, ZDF
• Media Format: Series