None of the characters is a Nazi, and the others have remained friends with a Jew despite having been educated almost entirely under the Nazis: I assume that they are meant to be about Trepte’s real age of 25 at the time of filming, although Bruch, Schilling and Schüttler are in their 30s. Warning! There are spoilers for the first episode in both the reviews linked below. If anybody is wondering why I did not give the female characters’ surnames, the answer is that the cast list does not. The five promise to meet again at Christmas, which they assume will mean Christmas 1941. His father, a WWI veteran, still refers to Germany and its army as ‘we’ despite being stripped of his civil rights and business by the state. Greta (Katharina Schüttler) is an aspiring singer, whilst her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) is a tailor. The first episode begins with the five having their last meeting before three of them head off to the Eastern Front: Wilhelm Winter (Volker Bruch) is an infantry officer his bookish brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling) is a private in the same unit and Charlotte (Miriam Stein), a newly qualified nurse known as Charley, at least on the English subtitles, has been assigned to a hospital behind lines. The BBC are showing it on the mainstream BBC2: usually subtitled foreign language dramas are shown on the more niche BBC4. It tells the story of five friends from Berlin from July 1941 until Christmas 1945. Its title translates as Our Fathers, our Mothers, but it is called Generation Warin the English speaking world. The BBC has recently started to show the German WWII drama series Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter.
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