Should you watch Generation War?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Generation War
Series · 2013
Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.
The sides of Generation War
- Five friends in Berlin in 1941
- Two brothers on the Eastern Front
- A promise to meet again after the war
Generation War is good for you if…
- you want a war seen from the German side, on the Eastern Front.
- you like following five friends as the war pulls them apart.
- you can take a war story where nobody comes out clean.
Generation War is bad for you if…
- you can't stand executions and battle scenes shown up close.
- you can't face the persecution of Jews and massacres on screen.
- you won't read subtitles for a German series.
About: guilt · friendship · lost innocence · complicity
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