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Generation War (TV Miniseries)

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Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Generation War)

2013

Philipp Kadelbach

Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein ...

7.8

13,798

TV Series. War. Drama TV Miniseries (2013). 3 Episodes. It tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) is off to the eastern front with his younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling), a sensitive dreamer more interested in literature than warfare. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, called Charly (Miriam Stein), a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The film slips into a strange, queasy zone between naturalism and nostalgia."	NEU
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"'Generation War' has the strengths and the weaknesses of middlebrow art: it may be clunky, but it's never dull, and, once you start watching, you can't stop (...) What we get is confounding—both silly and tragic, physically alive and morally obtuse."	NEU
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Don't feel guilty for expecting a little more (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sam Wollaston The Guardian	"[A] gripping drama with the confidence to confront the past (...) This is a brave and moving mini-series about what war does to friends and family"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"The films are highly entertaining and highly disturbing, in the latter case for both the right and the wrong reasons. While admirably delineating moral decay (...) the movies never really get at the seed of evil."	NEU
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"This high-end German miniseries encourages us to view World War II not as a conflict between absolutes of good and evil, but in shades of gray (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"There is obviously nothing new (...) 'Generation War' is also in many ways old-fashioned television (...) Though some of it is standard, this film can be unflinching in how it depicts German soldiers."	NEU
United States	John Anderson Newsday	"Entertaining and engrossing, if rather simplistic (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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