Limandy

1. The Abyss

2014-04-29

We follow 14-year-old Marina Yurlova who joins her father, Cossack Colonel Yurlov, on a train to the front. Artist Käthe Kollwitz and her husband must accept their 17-year-old son…

2. The Onslaught

2014-04-29 • ⭐ 10.0

The European conflict has turned into a world war: Greece and Bulgaria, Japan and the Ottoman Empire have entered the fighting. Battles are fought in Europe, Africa, off the Falkl…

3. The Anguish

2014-05-06

The number of injured people is increasing day by day. There are too few doctors and nurses. Auxiliary nurses are hastily called in: 20,000 of them in the first year of the war in…

4. The Heart's Desire

2014-05-06

Millions of mothers and wives must endure years of separation from their sons or husbands. They are tormented by the uncertainty of whether their loved ones are still alive. The m…

5. The Annihilation

2014-05-06

1916 becomes the year of horrific battles. A new kind of death machine is set in motion with submarines, aeroplanes, tanks and poison gas. On the Somme, the Western powers aim to …

6. The Home Front

2014-05-13

The soldiers' prospect of returning home is an important motive to continue fighting. In the first total war in history, a new phrase is coined: The Home Front. "Fighting" takes p…

7. The Uprising

2014-05-13

In 1917, unrest breaks out, affecting all sides. People across Europe revolt against living conditions and the never-ending bloodshed. There are strikes in armaments factories in …

8. The Tipping Point

2014-05-13

While his father is sent to Germany for forced labour, Yves Congar lives through the end of the war in his cellar. Ernst Jünger returns to Germany when revolution breaks out in hi…