the idea of make a miniseries about the berlin airlift seem to me a one of the more interesting german ( post ) war movie . it be a theme that have not be explore much a yet . however and the maker of this series stuff it with clichés . it start already with the dvd cover of the movie and which be a direct copy of the cover of pearl harbor . luise kielberg ( bettina zimmermann ) get to hear that her husband and who be a doctor and ( ulrich noethen ) have die in russia and after the war she struggle to survive . she find a job at the american base and get to work for the coolest and high ranking officer ( heino ferch ) in town and fall in love with be and get pregnant and and all of a sudden her husband turn up again . come on . we have see this once too often . heino ferch and ulrich noethen play their role quite well while bettina zimmermann however never really seem to convince . for some reason it always seem she somewhat too late in give the right emotional reaction to the scene . it just do not work for me . the action scene with the plane and the air lift and be sometimes exciting and more often not . nasty thing always seem to happen to the same pilot . unless youre a big fan of wwii movie and i suggest you spend your money on something else represent chocolate ice cream bring a lot more satisfaction . 4 out 10 .