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Tannbach (2015)

Tannbach poster
Original title
Tannbach – Schicksal eines Dorfes
Directed by
Alexander Dierbach
Genre
drama film, historical film
Country
Czech Republic, Germany
Length
2 seasons, 6 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German village is split by the Iron Curtain after World War II. The series follows local families as they navigate the hardships of occupation and the growing political divide between East and West.

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What happens

Tannbach is a German television series that first aired on ZDF in 2015. It is a fictionalized story inspired by the village of Mödlareuth and its families that were divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the traumatic period of German history between the end of World War II and 1968. For the people of the village, the end of the war does not mean the end of hardship, soon the Cold War takes over and the village as well as the people become divided along geographic and political lines. The series has 2 seasons and is known as "Line of Separation" in the United States. "Line of Separation" was picked up by PBS as a streaming offering. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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