The Second World War - Apocalypse of Modernity

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Television broadcast
German title The Second World War - Apocalypse of Modernity
Original title Apocalypse, la 2 e Guerre mondiale
Country of production France
original language French
year 2009
Production
company		 France 2
length 52 minutes
Episodes 6 in 1 season
genre documentation
production Isabelle Clarke & Daniel Costelle (Director)
music Kenji Kawai
Moderation in the original Mathieu Kassovitz
First broadcast August 20, 2009 on RTBF
German-language
first broadcast		 September 6, 2009 on National Geographic Channel

The Second World War - Apocalypse of Modernity ( Apocalypse, la 2 e Guerre mondiale ) is a French documentary series from 2009 about the entire Second World War . Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle directed. Jean-Louis Guillaud and Henri de Turenne collaborated as authors.

content

The series chronologically accompanies the Second World War from the beginning of 1939 to the end of 1945 in all locations (Europe, Africa, Asia). "The makers [...] abstained from so-called scenic reconstructions (with actors), did not use computer gimmicks, experts did not have their say, and no contemporary witnesses either."

The documentation has the following six parts:

  1. The attack on Poland (L'agression (1933–1939)) : the rise of National Socialism and the campaign in Poland
  2. The Blitzkrieg in the West (L'écrasement (1939–1940)) : the lazy war, the fall of Dunkirk and the French campaign
  3. The attack on the Soviet Union (Le choc (1940–1941)) : the battle for Great Britain, the campaign in Yugoslavia, the battle for Greece and the battle for Crete, the Barbarossa company , the campaign in Africa
  4. The turning point (L'embrasement (1941–1942)) : the battles of Smolensk and Moscow in 1941, the company Fall Blau and 1942. In the Pacific: Pearl Harbor, Midway and Guadalcanal
  5. The landings of the Allies (L'étau (1942–1943)) : The first setbacks of the "Axis": the battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, of Tunisia, the campaign in Italy and the battle of Kursk
  6. The End of the Nightmare (L'enfer (1944–1945)) : The liberation of France, the air raids and the liberation of Germany, the atomic bombs in Japan and Japan's surrender.

production

For the documentation, previously unpublished images from secret military archives and from private collections were given preference, so that around half of the material has never been seen. Color material was mainly used and monochrome images were colored very true to the time. Original recordings depicting the Holocaust are an exception . All of the material has been sampled and restored in high resolution so that it can be broadcast in HD on television. The series was also released on DVD and Blu-ray .

Frames

In Germany, the series was shortened to three episodes and brought on the market under the title Der Krieg - Menschen im WWII . The ARD broadcast on Monday, 1 March 2010 and the following months only halved version, the third programs but later shortened all six parts only "slightly" over 43 instead of 52 min post length films. The uncut version can be seen on the National Geographic Channel under the original title.

criticism

"The film unfolds a suggestive pull that buries any doubts about the off-screen comments and threatens to stifle any critical question - including those about the selection and quality of the source material used."

- Thorsten Dörting on Spiegel Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thorsten Dörting: Grandpa now marches in color In: Spiegel Online from March 1, 2010.
  2. ^ For example, on June 22, 2010 (on the NDR).
  3. ↑ ARD editor-in-chief Thomas Baumann on the documentary series ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daserste.de