A fellow reviewer stated Tannbach's "almost 300 minutes have nothing worth watching that hasn't been done before and frequently better." I would like to encourage this individual to be a little more specific as I have never seen anything remotely close.
I thought this film had a very unique setting and premise basically the development of the Inner German Border and the vastly conflicting politics of the day. Imagine the vacuum created by the defeat of Nazis Germany imagine the aspirations of the Russians (land grab and retribution) imagine the slowly dawning desperation of the Germans who found themselves with the Russian Occupation Zone. These were pretty fascinating times.
As for the film itself I thought it was quite good! The cast was very solid and believable and I especially enjoyed the cinematography and locations. The town where this was filmed was idyllic!
Speaking of the town although Tannbach is a fictional locale there is a town called Modlareuth that was indeed split down the middle surely this story of this fascinating place factored into the writing of this script.
I enjoyed this film and learned a few things from it (like Russians using Buchenwald). More so it got me to think about things thus said it was time well spent.
I thought this film had a very unique setting and premise basically the development of the Inner German Border and the vastly conflicting politics of the day. Imagine the vacuum created by the defeat of Nazis Germany imagine the aspirations of the Russians (land grab and retribution) imagine the slowly dawning desperation of the Germans who found themselves with the Russian Occupation Zone. These were pretty fascinating times.
As for the film itself I thought it was quite good! The cast was very solid and believable and I especially enjoyed the cinematography and locations. The town where this was filmed was idyllic!
Speaking of the town although Tannbach is a fictional locale there is a town called Modlareuth that was indeed split down the middle surely this story of this fascinating place factored into the writing of this script.
I enjoyed this film and learned a few things from it (like Russians using Buchenwald). More so it got me to think about things thus said it was time well spent.