The firestorm

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Television series
German title The firestorm
Original title Winds of War
Country of production United States
original language English
length 883 (USA) minutes
720 (DEU) minutes
Episodes 7th
genre War Movie
idea Herman Wouk
production Dan Curtis
music Bob Cobert
First broadcast 1983 with American Broadcasting Company
German-language
first broadcast		 January 25, 1986 on ZDF
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Firestorm is an American television series from the 1980s. A mixture of fiction and reality tells the story of World War II up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . The focus of the plot is on the fictional Henry family and characters in their environment. The template was provided by the book of the same name, The Winds of War by Herman Wouk , who also wrote the script. The series continued with Firestorm and Ashes .

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Victor Henry, called Pug , Commander in the US Navy , was transferred to the US Embassy in Berlin as a naval attaché in April 1939 . His wife Rhoda accompanies him. On the ship Bremen you get to know the English correspondent Alistair Tudsburry and his daughter Pamela, as well as the German Major General Armin von Roon. At a reception, the Henrys meet Adolf Hitler , who is believed to have a house expropriated from a Jewish family offered them as accommodation.

In the USA , the daughter Madeline Henry starts working for a radio station , which is not in the parents' minds, but is later accepted by them anyway. Elderly son Warren Henry follows in his father's footsteps but becomes a naval pilot .

In Italy , the younger son Byron Henry met the American-Jewish author Aaron Jastrow and his niece Natalie. He falls in love with her and accompanies her to Warsaw , where, after the Jewish wedding of another member of the Jastrow clan, they experience the beginning of the war with the attack on Poland .

Victor is appointed unofficial advisor by President Roosevelt in America after he "predicted" the non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin . The family witnesses the developments in Europe up to the USA's entry into the war in 1941. Sometimes the events are addressed (such as the hunt for the Bismarck during a work lunch at the President of the USA) - sometimes individual members of the family are directly present ( e.g. Byron and Natalie Jastrow in the bombing raid on Warsaw and Victor and Pamela Tudsbury in the bombing raid on London ). And the Germans also learn about the lending and leasing law , as Armin von Roon admits when playing chess. He also let it be known that it is known in Germany that Victor was transferred to the planning staff in Washington, DC (before Victor, meanwhile promoted to captain , seemed to know himself). In Washington, approaches to developing the atomic bomb are also mentioned.

Depicted historical events

1939

1940

1941

Awards

Filming in Vienna (1981)

The series was awarded 3 Emmys :

  • Best cinematography
  • Costumes
  • Visual effects

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