Volker Bruch Tom Schilling Katharina Schüttler Miriam Stein Ludwig Trepte
Theme music composer
Fabian Römer
Country of origin
Germany
Original languages
German, Polish, Russian
No. of episodes
3
Production
Producers
Benjamin Benedict Nico Hofmann Jürgen Schuster
Cinematography
David Slama
Editor
Bernd Schlegel
Running time
90 minutes per episode
Production company
TeamWorx
Original release
Network
ZDF
Release
17 March (2013-03-17) – 20 March 2013 (2013-03-20)
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Generation War (German: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, translated as "Our Mothers, our Fathers") is a 2013 German World War II TV miniseries in three parts. It was commissioned by the public broadcasting organization ZDF, produced by the UFA subsidiary TeamWorx, and first aired in Germany and Austria in March 2013. The series tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on 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. 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 story's conclusion is set shortly after the end of the war in 1945.
When the series was first aired in Germany, each episode garnered around 7 million views. Generation War has generated much controversy. The Economist stated that hardly any German TV drama ever caused so much public debate.[1] Critics have acknowledged the series to be well crafted, intense and unsparing in its depiction of combat on the eastern front.[2] 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,[3] and the blurring of differences between non-German victims and German perpetrators have been deplored by others.[4][5][6]
^"The war generation: A new television drama about wartime Germany stirs up controversy". The Economist. 30 March 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
^Scott, A.O. (14 January 2014). "A History Lesson, Airbrushed". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
^Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland K.d.ö.R. (19 March 2013). "Einspruch: Opferneid als Dreiteiler". Juedische-allgemeine.de. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^"German TV defends depiction of WWII Polish anti-semites". Retrieved 28 March 2013.
^kla – with wire reports (10 April 2013). "TV Tiff: Polish Weekly Shows Merkel in Concentration Camp". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
^Trenkner, Joachim (7 April 2013). "Oprawcy mimo woli" [Torturers, but against their will]. World (in Polish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
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