Five friends besieged by twisted ideologies and raw violence.
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe – and that will forever change them as well.
Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm is off to the eastern front with his younger brother Friedhelm, a sensitive dreamer more interested in literature than warfare. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Wehrmacht, also on the eastern front.
While Greta is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich, her Jewish boyfriend Viktor still cannot convince his parents to leave Germany... Valor and courage come to the fore, but also betrayal – of values, beliefs, humanity. Friedhelm turns into a soulless killing machine... Wilhelm deserts his troops and is court-martialed... Charlotte's Nazi ideology crumbles when she betrays a Jewish nurse helping the German army... Greta obtains papers for Viktor's escape by selling herself to an SS colonel. They and millions of others wanted to be heroes; but none of them could imagine what the war would ultimately do to them and to the rest of the world...
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, literalmente "As nossas mães, os nossos pais", é essencialmente uma longa-metragem de quatro horas e meia, lançada em formato televisivo de mini-série em três partes de 90 minutos.
O enredo concerne a frente oriental da 2ª Guerra Mundial, visto por 5 amigos alemães: Enfermeira, Cantora, Judeu e dois irmãos Soldados (um fanático e outro pacifista).
Isto podia ser bom se tivesse os meios de séries como Band of Brothers ou Pacific, mas nenhuma produtora europeia pode dar 100 milhões para fazer uma mini série.
"You're not your Facebook status. You're not how many friends you have. You're not the smart phone you own. You're not the apps of your phone. You're not your fucking iPad. You're the all-planking, e-consuming crap of the world."
