Anguished Declaration of Love: Charlotte to Wilhelm, after she discovers he's alive.On the other hand, he also admires Friedhelm's wit and intelligence. Aloof Big Brother: Wilhelm, who has previous experience from the invasions of Poland and France, and who has attained the rank of Lieutenant, considers his bookish brother, a new recruit, to be too soft for the work of a soldier, and confesses to feeling ashamed of him on occasion.Even so, they commit various morally questionable acts and outright war crimes over the course of the series: Charly turns in a Jewish nurse to what she knows will be certain death (though the woman survives), Friedhelm executes numerous unarmed people, including a little boy, and even the otherwise noble Wilhelm executes a prisoner and orders Soviet civilians marched through a minefield. All Germans Are Nazis: Averted - none of the five main characters are depicted as loyal to the Nazi party, which would have been highly unusual for the time and is most likely a deliberate case of Artistic License to make them more sympathetic to modern viewers.
Action Girl: Alina breaks out of a train bound for a concentration camp with just a knife and sheer grit.Abandoned Hospital: The military hospital where Charlotte is stationed is inevitably evacuated in the wake of the Russian advance.And as the months and years drag by, and the fighting becomes ever more brutal, for these young people the war becomes a desperate struggle not only to survive, but to retain their humanity even while serving an inhumane regime. They promise to get together after the war, but it will change their lives forever.Of course, it doesn't quite work out like that. While Greta (Katherina Schüttler) is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) still cannot convince his parents to leave Germany. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, called Charly (Miriam Stein), a young nurse who looks forward to serve in the Wehrmacht, also on the eastern front. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) is off to the eastern front with his younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling), a sensitive dreamer more interested in literature than warfare. It tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. Friendship Synopsis TV Miniseries (2013). ZDF, Teamworx Television-Film Genre TV Series.
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