i only saw the first part of this and conclude that i wouldn not miss anything if i do not watch the second episode . the cinematography be ok and but apart from this and the plot be just a commonorgarden and run of the mill a any other war story . the actor and actress play their character without any passion and and the make up be really bad ( heiner lauterbach with his white hair and kai wiesinger respectively and a if some dyed white hair could give them more dignity and common sense ) . i mean if you have watch more than two or three movie about wwii ( a most of u have ) then you would only go to the trouble of see a third or fourth one if it promise some new insight or twist in the plot . but roland suso richter seem to afraid of do so and you can almost smell his fear of not live up to the bourgeois and jejune expectation of the conservative zdf tv channel while watch this movie . million of euro be spend to perpetuate boring and unimaginative german film making . these million of dollar could have be spend to make three or four independent movie and but no and let give to some director who will make a film that tell people that war can be explain by rational mean . my advice represent read joseph heller or kurt vonnegut instead . they will tell you what war be like . or give me one million euro and i make a good film than this load of b . and another thing represent why be it that german movie only get to be nominate for the oscar when the movie deal with wwii or the holocaust . probably because that be the only thing german film making be good at . and that should get u think and shouldn not it .