We next see him in pinstripes to Auschwitz. Viktor reluctantly takes the papers, but discovers he’s double-crossed. She also has other aims – he’s the only one who can secure safe passage to Marseilles for her true love Viktor. Ludwig Trepte as Viktor Goldstein and Katharina Schutter as Greta in Phillip Kadelbach’s ‘Generation War’ (Music Box Films)īack in Berlin, Greta’s career as a singer takes off when she shacks up with a high ranking member of the Gestapo. (When things get truly chaotic, surgeons sometimes shrug and say “make the radio louder.”) Indeed, each scene at the hospital comes with house of horror shrieks from dying soldiers duking it out against pacifying music over a wireless. Charlotte’s first day in a wartime nurse is as gruesome as you could imagine.
The bulk of the film takes place on the Eastern front, where each character has his innocence stripped away in horrific ways. (This changes once he is attacked by fellow soldiers who pummel him for cowardice and his older brother is compelled to look the other way.) Sensitive Friedhelm laces up his boots, but doesn’t go out of his way to volunteer for duty when dangerous assignments come. But all seem to accept that it is a civic duty. No one, not even Wilhelm, is particularly gung-ho for war.
For as many raging anti-Semites as you meet in this film, there are twice as many who just wish that the Reich’s attitude towards Jews would just subside.
Volker Bruch as Wilhelm Winter in Phillip Kadelbach’s ‘Generation War’ (photo credit: Music Box Films)Īs far as the “race laws” are concerned, “Generation War” does a marvelous job of showing how a populace can disagree with something, but make no concentrated effort to do anything about it.
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