Dresden From:Felicitas Woll , John Light , Benjamin Sadler , Heiner Lauterbach , Katharina Mainecke , Koch International , Roland Suso Richter , Koch Vision ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0741952650898
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Koch Vision
Manufacturer: Koch Vision
Number Of Items: 2
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 740 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 25 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Koch Vision
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-02-05
Running Time: 180 minutes
Studio: Koch Vision
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Product Description:
January, 1945. In the uncertain days leading up to the Allied bombings of Dresden, Anna (Felicitas Woll) discovers Robert Newman (John Light), an injured British pilot, hiding in a hospital cellar. Torn between loyalty and desire, the young nurse risks everything to help him recover. As Anna struggles to keep his true identity a secret and Robert battles to survive behind enemy lines, a catastrophic fate descends upon the city. DVD Extras:
Making-of Featurette, Archival Military Footage of the Dresden bombings
Customer Reviews:
 "Titanic" on land, 2008-12-14
As a previous reviewer has noted, the plot of this German made-for-television movie is almost identical to the plot of "Titanic": An unlikely romance between two attractive young people is used to add more urgent human interest to a catastrophe of inhuman proportions.
Here, the young people are a German nurse, Anna, and a downed British pilot, Robert. Robert has been shot, and takes shelter in a hospital basement where Anna finds him and nurses him back to health. Anna is engaged to be married to a young doctor who works at the hospital, a match approved of and encouraged by Anna's parents. Anna, however, finds herself repulsed by the increasing barbarity of the Nazi regime, and this repulsion expresses itself as an attraction to the regime's enemy, the handsome British flyer, whom, since he speaks fluent German, Anna wrongly assumes to be a spy.
Anna's father is the chief doctor at the hospital, but he has a dark secret: he is selling a large portion of the hospital's alotment of morphine to the adjutant (assistant) to the Gauleiter, Dresden's top Nazi official. With his huge cache of drug money, Anna's father plans to take the family to Switzerland and purchase a clinic there at which he and Anna's fiance can practice medicine.
As we all know, however, everyone's plans are about to be demolished by the Royal Air Force, along with Dresden itself, on February 13, 1945. The last hour of the movie is taken up depicting the horrific mass bombing and resulting firestorm that killed 25,000 people (almost all civilians) and destroyed most of the historic, old quarter of Dresden.
The bombing of Dresden was one of the most controversial acts of WWII, with some historians deeming it a war crime. Dresden was considered by many as the most beautiful city in Germany, a German Florence. The allies accomplished nothing of military significance comensurate with the loss of life and destruction of cultural landmarks. Churchill later distanced himself from the bombing, writing that, "the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. . . . the destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of allied bombing."
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