1. This series was produced by the famous German TV producer Nico Hofmann, and the production company is owned by UFA. Potsdam TEAMWORX film production company, this company is very good at shooting historical TV series based on World War II, such as Der Tunnel (The Tunnel), Dresden (Dresden), "Die Flucht" (The Escape), "Nicht alle waren Mörder" (Not so bad in itself) - and "Rommel".
2. Hoffman said the show was inspired by his father's wartime diary, and the image of the man, Wilhelm Winter, was actually based on his father's life.
3. The script took 6 years to complete by Stefan Colditz. German used in the propaganda of the "Band of Brothers comparable with the United States" (Es GAB Vergleiche zu der vielfach ausgezeichneten US-Kriegsserie Band of Brothers).
4. 141 movie scenes shot in Latvia, Lithuania and five German states, total It took 86 days, many of which were filmed indoors and outdoors on the Babelsberg set in Potsdam. All the Berlin scenes in the 1940s were not filmed in Berlin. For example, the gathering of five young people in the film - "Berlin Strasse" - was set up by the film crew at Marquardt in Potsdam. Another major filming location was Cologne, where a 19th-century building became the film's field hospital and partisan headquarters.
5. Part of the film was shot at minus 30 degrees. The entire film used 2,000 extras and destroyed 50,000 blank rounds.
6. After the first round of ZDF broadcast, another documentary Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter- Die Dokumentation aus (our fathers - from the documentary) was played. As a special part of the whole series, the film found 5 Tell about their history from someone who experienced a similar war as the protagonist in the TV series. The difference is that they were not friends or acquaintances during the war.
7. In the original script, the Jewish guy Victor escaped to France and eventually returned to his hometown as a member of the US Army. However, due to the budget, it was finally changed to participate in the Polish partisans (because there was no need to find US military equipment and American actors)
8. On March 17, 2013, the first episode of our fathers was released in Germany, and the number of viewers in Germany reached 7.22 million that night. People, ZDF ratings survey 20.1%. The second episode was 6.57 million, with a rating of 19.5%, and the third episode was 7.63 million, with a rating of 24.3%.
9. The film also sparked a diplomatic incident, and many Poles felt that the film slandered the actions of the Polish partisans (eg. anti-Semitism, homicide, etc.). Poland's ambassador to Germany, Jerzy Marganski, also sent a letter of protest to ZDF TV, forcing the latter to make quick changes. Polish Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf also wrote a letter of protest to buy the copyright of American television
10. Name the film in the United States called "generation war", a total of six sets
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