
Generation War(2013)
Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.


Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.

Jannis Niewöhner
Walter Proska

Małgorzata Mikołajczak
Wanda Zielinski

Leonie Benesch
Hildegard Roth

Rainer Bock
Willi Stehauf

Katharina Schüttler
Maria Rogalski

Bjarne Mädel
Ferdinand 'Baffi' Ellerbrok

Sebastian Urzendowsky
Wolfgang Kürschner

Florian Lukas
Paul Zacharias

Alexander Beyer
Martin Kunkel

Jochen Nickel
Bauer
The Turncoat is a drama, war & politics series that first aired in 2020 exploring themes of based on novel or book, world war ii, east berlin, partisan, post world war ii, turncoat. Created by Siegfried Lenz, it stars Jannis Niewöhner, Małgorzata Mikołajczak, Leonie Benesch. Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
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