German soldiers who are brought in bleeding and screaming into the military field hospital also confront Charlotte with the harsh reality of warfare. The brothers experience on the Eastern Front that the time of rapid victories is soon over and that war crimes are inextricably linked to the German army's struggle. The German three-part miniseries 'Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter' is about how the young lives of the five main characters are at odds because of the war. It would never be again as in the picture. The eventual outcome would be very different. At their farewell meeting, the five promise to see each other again: the Russians will be defeated by the unbeatable German army before Christmas. He is of Jewish origin and thus the target of discrimination by the National Socialist government, she is working on a career as a singer. The other two in the picture, Greta and Viktor, remain in Germany. Also one of the girls, Charlotte, will leave soon for the battlefields in the Soviet Union to serve her country as a nurse. Two of the boys, Wilhelm and his brother Friedhelm are called up for service in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. It's in the summer of 1941 and the carefree quintet meet in Berlin for a farewell party. Three boys and two girls in de prime of their lives. Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein en Ludwig Trepteįive cheerful faces on a black-and-white picture.
Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter (Generation War)