I just saw the movie Dresden and was impressed by it.
A very dramatic and historically interesting film.
Several stories are told and some of them get connected.
It's the story of a German nurse and a British pilot who
is shot down near Dresden.
He survives because he is able to escape the German
mob that hunted down and killed his fellow crewmembers.
He is shot in his stomach too, but knows to escape, first by
hiding in a farm and secondly by entering the city dressed
up as a refugee, mixing in the stream of refugees that
entered the city. He then manages to slip into a hospital
and hide himself in the basement.
He has the luck that he knows German, because his mother
in Great-Britain is German.
For me this movie stands inline with the really good war
movies The Pianist of Polanski and Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone.
The Grey Zone is probably the best second world war and Holocaust
movie I ever saw. It really captures the camp atmosphere I read
in Primo Levi's and Tadeusz Borowski's books.
Dresden is a human movie!
When I saw Dresden toninght I thought about my father who
was in the Middle of the firestorm and so the inferno of the
bombing of Rotterdam, an event that marked his life!
And ofcourse the bombing of Warsaw too!
www.imdb.com/title/tt0461658/www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1903823,00.html
Pieter