The five friends are used to represent different parts of German society during the war: There is Greta who aspires to become a singer and movie star and thus end up among high ranking officials. It is however a time piece and as such must cover high and low in the German society. The English title is “Generation War” which I am unsure if I like or not as I feel Generation War could just as well refer to the veterans of WWI, or US draftees during the Vietnam War. The German title translates more like into: “Our Mothers, Our Fathers” a title I feel is addressed to my parents’ generation to tell them that their parents went through this experience and that it is part of our story and should not be forgotten. Of course no plan survives contact with the enemy and so the five friends are thrown into the war making it 4 more years before they reconvene changed by their individual experiences. On the eve of the invasion of Soviet Russia 5 friends meet up in Berlin for a goodbye party, in Nazi-Germany at that time the world view is that of great optimism, the war on the Eastern front seems to be another blitzkrieg victory and likely over in a couple of months and the 5 friends promise to meet back in Berlin for Christmas. It runs from 1941 through to 1945 and uses the titanic struggle on the Eastern front as the backdrop for the story. “Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter” is a German television miniseries in three episodes of 1:30 hours each from 2013.
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