I was shocked and repressed.The war will take the worst to everyone, we can see the struggle, the dark...It needs a lot of courage and tolerance to face the history

Well, I just watched this and have to say, this movie is far by the GREATEST war movies I have ever seen before (including Bandnof Brother, Saving Private Ryan,Fury,....etc) Some scene are maybe unrealistic with someone, but I am very glad to find a great war movie like this so I forgave them all, like the Fredhelm charge. Anyway, keep voting for it and everyone should know about this movie, its AWESOME!!! I kept talking about it last two days and now all of mu friends knew it.It's even suitable for a female to watch, since there is not so much too violent (but I like violent). Great story about friendship and courage, better than Hollywood ones (example Fury, it far by the most unrealistic film I have ever seen before)

It is complicated for Germany, who was the main (but not at all single) inducer of World War II, to make something depicting that era as several like-minded and pressure groups from the "allied" side find immediately something worth criticism. On the other hand, German environment, characters and language provide so much additional value, that I prefer watching films and series on related issues this way - unless it is blunt defensive propaganda...But Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter is definitely not the latter; it is a sad and dramatic story about deprived illusions and opportunities, without clear assessments provided, thus letting the viewers ponder on and over painful and serious issues. The budget was apparently big, allowing to create realistic wartime/battle scenes and employ versatile actors from different generations (particularly Tom Schilling as Friedhelm Winter, Ludwig Trepte as Viktor Goldstein, Sylvester Groth as Sturmbannführer/Standartenführer Hiemer). True, not all scenes are of the same value and necessity, and the final scene seemed a bit odd, constructed, but the overall plot is mostly smooth and plausible. In my opinion, one should avoid to create something where losers are bad by definition and winners are always good (e.g., after WW II, the Soviets used several Nazi concentration camps for their own political prisoners, commissars of Jewish and East- European origin committed many atrocities while enforcing socialism, etc.). Before getting steamed up about something, one should learn its circumstances from different sources.

Perfect, like Band of Brothers, The Pacific or Genertion Kill It is everybody's right to tell a story about what is interesting to him or her. And make a background plot just useful thing without going into any details - just make it flat as in this film. But when those who are responsible and guilty transfer their main crime (hate to Jews) to others it is morally doubtful and, to me, disgusting. Someone from Chine above mentioned that Nazi hurt other nations: Poles, Russian and even Germans. I ask you: Who were Nazis then? Some other nation? NO! NO! NO! They were Germans!!!! Not some virtual Nazis. Nazism was just a political form of government in German, that is all.