Habermann (2010)

Original title

Habermannův mlýn

Directed by

Juraj Herz

Genre

drama film, war film, historical film

Country

Czech Republic, Germany, Austria

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

12

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German mill owner and his family live in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Their lives are upended as political tensions rise and war approaches.

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What happens

Habermann (Czech: Habermannův mlýn) is a 2010 Czech-German-Austrian war drama film directed by Juraj Herz. In the story, the lives of a German mill owner and his family in the Sudetenland are changed dramatically as Europe heats up in 1938. The movie is based on true events and is the first major motion picture to dramatize the post-World War II expulsion of 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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