I’m sure there are some mistakes (like the appearance of an MG42 before they should have existed), but they are so minor in context as to be unnoticeable. On a technical level, Generation War is magnificent. Between the writing, directing, and acting the characters manage to play roles as archetypes without becoming cliches – no easy task for a film! The acting is magnificent, and we see the changes to the characters as happening naturally without being beaten over the head. It neither glamorizes nor judges the characters for their actions, it simply shows them going through what actually happens on a personal level. As best as I can tell from my vantage point having never been in the military or personally experienced war, it does a tragically good job of portraying what war does to people.
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Having watched the series nearly straight through, watched the BBC’s short program on the controversy it created, and read a wide variety of other reviews of the series, I will be pretty unapologetic in saying that it is one of the best pieces of war film I think I’ve ever seen.
The five represent a cross-section of German experiences, and include two soldiers (brothers), a singer, a nursing student, and a Jewish tailor. The story follows a group of five childhood friends from 1941 until the defeat of Germany in 1945. It has been described as a German Band of Brothers, but that misses some of the nuance. Generation War originally came out two years ago as a three-part German television miniseries, and I only found out about it recently.
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