1941年,德軍準備入侵蘇聯,德國男青年Wilhelm和他的弟弟Friedhelm響應希特勒的號召應徵入伍,即將奔赴前線。女青年Charlotte立志為國家服務,成了一名女護士,也將前往戰場救助傷員。女青年Greta美麗活潑,歌聲動人,她希望有朝一日成為一名女歌星。她的情人是一個猶太人Viktor,他是一名裁縫的兒子。五人是最好的朋友,他們在啟程的前夜載歌載舞,喝酒慶祝,約定聖誕節再相聚。分離之前,他們都是意氣風發的年輕人;分離之後,他們的命運便和這場戰爭緊緊聯繫在一起。
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of the Germans, who believed he was nothing more than an eccentric dreamer. But when the crisis of 1929 devastated the economy, the population, fearful of chaos and communism, voted for him. And no one defended democracy. As the dictatorship extended its relentless shadow, the leader claimed peace, but was preparing the Apocalypse.
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.
North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and finally overthrow the foundations of the colonial regime established by France in 1830.
A portrait of Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat (1929-2004).