When the US Army conquered Germany in 1945, embedded reporters with movie cameras came with them, and documented much of what there was to see - cities in rubble, last battles, corpses, arrests of German soldiers, the civil population or what was left of them. (Also, they re-enacted some thrilling scenes.) From the hundreds of hours of material, 90 minutes were selected for this production.
The films are in black and white and very probably originally without sound. The soundtrack that we hear in this selection consists of noise effects (of shootings, and vehicles), a lot of somber classical music, and much voice-over, which gives background information and several quotes from German period documents - letters, diaries etc..
The Spiegel magazine of May 17, 2010 came with a DVD that contains two parts of this original TV serial, at 90 minutes total runtime. As the first begins with the first invasion of Germany, and the second ends with the meeting of US and Soviet troops in Torgau, it forms a sort of complete, rounded "story arc", so I wonder what the other two parts mentioned in the IMDb data sheet might have been.
A fascinating viewing experience.
The films are in black and white and very probably originally without sound. The soundtrack that we hear in this selection consists of noise effects (of shootings, and vehicles), a lot of somber classical music, and much voice-over, which gives background information and several quotes from German period documents - letters, diaries etc..
The Spiegel magazine of May 17, 2010 came with a DVD that contains two parts of this original TV serial, at 90 minutes total runtime. As the first begins with the first invasion of Germany, and the second ends with the meeting of US and Soviet troops in Torgau, it forms a sort of complete, rounded "story arc", so I wonder what the other two parts mentioned in the IMDb data sheet might have been.
A fascinating viewing experience.