Generation War (Blu-ray)

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Format:  Blu-ray  (2 Discs)
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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 4 hours, 39 minutes
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 6, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2013
  • Label: Music Box Films

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Rating: 2.5/4 -- It's an involving story and an intriguing view of history.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Mar 14, 2014
Though director Philipp Kadelbach and screenwriter Stefan Kolditz do touch on moral ambiguities ... they settle comfortably into glib ironies, bittersweet platitudes, and sentiment passing as tragedy. Full Review
Boston Globe
Mar 6, 2014
Rating: 1.5/4 -- I suppose everything that occurs in "Generation War" is factually possible, even when it's not based on fact. But weirdly little of it feels historically plausible, at least to one foreigner's eyes and ears.
Chicago Tribune
Jan 23, 2014
With performers this engaging, we never want to stop watching, even as events go from grim to grimmer over four long and bitter years.
Los Angeles Times
Feb 27, 2014
While Generation War is propulsive and determined to stay juicy (there's plenty of shooting and schtupping) it offers some surprising restraint when it comes to telling you how exactly to feel. Full Review
Times of Israel
Sep 26, 2017
Apart from the bizarre coincidences (how often can five friends cross paths on a battlefield stretching all the way from Poland to the northeast of the Ukraine?), Generation War has other typical marks of TV melodrama. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 21, 2017
Suffice it to say that this is an extraordinarily moving story told from the universal perspective of "war is hell" even when it is the enemy telling the story. Full Review
Easy Reader (California)
Sep 15, 2017

Product Description:

Five young German friends find their lives torn apart when Adolf Hitler plunges Europe into war in this epic miniseries from director Philipp Kadelbach (HINDENBURG). Called to serve his country when fighting erupts on the eastern front, decorated officer Willhelm (Volker Bruch) races off to the battlefield alongside his nervous younger sibling Friedhelm (Tom Schilling). Meanwhile, hopeful that her true love Wilhelm will soon return to her, optimistic nurse Charlotte (Miriam Stein) opts to serve in the Red Cross. But the horrors Charlotte witnesses quickly erode her youthful idealism, and as her best friend Greta (Katharina Schüettler) aspires to become a famous singer, her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) attempts to survive by blending in with the Polish Resistance.

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  • UPC: 741360538443
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