Dresden (2006)

Directed by

Roland Suso Richter

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

2h 56m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A romance unfolds between a German nurse and an English bomber pilot as Allied firebombs devastate Dresden in February 1945. The story follows their relationship against the backdrop of the city's destruction.

romanticwartimesomberintimatehistoricaldramaticbittersweet

What happens

Dresden is a 2006 German television film directed by Roland Suso Richter. It is set during the bombing of Dresden in World War II. This romance movie takes place during the historical Anglo-American bombing of the city of Dresden in February 1945. It was produced by the ZDF, a German Public Television Programme, and was originally split in two parts of 90 minutes each. A cinema version was then released in 2010. The film was inspired by Jörg Friedrich's book The Fire. The €10 million production was shot on original locations in Dresden and Chemnitz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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