Absolutely Fantastic

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Finally a WW2 movie from a German perspective without depicting the Germans as brainless monsters. The story and motivations of the characters are very close to reality. Very captive and emotional. And of course a very lovely cast.

A great series to watch if you enjoyed Band of Brothers and other war films but are tired of seeing it from the allied perspective. Gritty and shocking - hits all the right feels for a war movie.

I already heard a lot of good criticism when I finally managed to watch this movie, which is not so common for most German films or series.With the variety of films and books already published on this topic it is not too easy to stand out and really create an impact. Even though I'm always skeptical towards "tv-events", I do think that this production has some points.First of all it shows you war in all it's absurdity, where friends become enemies, lose track, lose themselves and find together again in some cases. It shows that we should be very careful nowadays to talk about war and that peace is not a burden but a gift. Time and again it is awful to see what humans are capable of under the wrong circumstances or leadership. At several points in this plot, people cross each others ways again and you get to learn how different their paths went on.The acting is solid, the plot not predictable. It is a very German movie, I still don't really get why one can always tell that at first sight, but it probably has something to do with the way it is produced.My one major point of critique is that too often this movie isn't brave enough. It is just outstandingly unlikely that five people of such different origins would have survived that long. Since the movie is said to be based on real characters maybe indeed something unlikely happened but still there are several points throughout the movie where in my eyes the film had benefited if one of the characters really died instead of just making the audience think so to rise again due to some lucky chain of events.Still it is a powerful movie and everyone that needs to be remembered why peace is always the right choice to be made should maybe give it a try.

A good series was sad for d day to be called the American landings. The British,Canadian's,free french and Polish seem to be forgotten..In no way was d day a mainly American affair..Ships landing craft and equipment was overwhelmingly British. Numbers involved was very equal and overall casualty's..Other then Eisenhower being overall in command, most commanders were British..So this thing of d day being a majority American affair is unbelievably misleading..If anything it was a mainly British affair with around 80% of vessels, equipment etc being from the UK.I feel with many documentaries, mini series and Hollywood movies always go down as Americans fighting the Nazis's and it seems to still be the case.Im sure ww2 was 1939/1945 not 1941/1945