Over the past week....public TV in Germany (ARD, Channel One) ran a five-piece mini-series called 'Our Wonderful Years'. Roughly 45 minutes for each 'session'.
The network has broadened out in the past decade and done a number of 1930s, 1940s and 1950s era movies. Most were historical in nature, with fiction heavily fitted into the era with some historical events making it interesting.
My wife (the German) dragged me into viewing this. So after finishing up the last episode last night.....I'll make this review.
Most of the past historical movies that ARD did.....were fairly dramatic pieces and loaded with history.
This mini-series? This was a long-winded drama piece where every single member of some upscale German family was screwed in a dozen different ways, and it was more of a soap opera....than anything else.
Yes, it felt like some Dallas episode. The three daughters of the industrialist? This carried the weight of the entire mini-series and it was built for some 30 to 60 year old German woman. I think most German guys would have dropped it by the second episode.
But I lingered on because the background and vehicles used were five-star and really done in a great fashion to portray the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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