s01e04 — Episode 4

One of the strongest miniseries of the year. I don't know how the film adaptation came out, but I'm definitely adding the book to the queue.

I really admit the book as something that can be added to the queue. The plot is quite a universal one. But the realization in the form of this series did not cause emotions. Reminded me of all the telenovelas at once.

It's nice to see the actors from "Babylon-Berlin" and "darkness".

A very good series. I don't care about the book as much as when I started watching it, but it's worth watching the series. The actors are great. Lori and Hofmann in particular. The plot is also great. It's a pity they didn't insert a scene where Werner and Marie continue their friendship after the war. But it was still interesting.

The series turned out to be much lighter than the book. Maybe it's good that they left the end open..

A good series with excellent acting. I wanted to read a book.

The series came out much better than the book itself. It's good that we didn't insert some scenes from the book, but concentrated on the main thing. Although it was not without American propaganda.
Saint-Malo was almost completely destroyed by American bombing by mistake, since there were practically no fascists there. When the Americans entered the city, they were met by ruins and mountains of corpses of the civilian population.

A wonderful job imbued with kindness, love and hope. Excellent acting, interesting work of the director, revealing the character of all the characters. An unambiguous recommendation!

It was very, as strange as it sounds now, beautiful!
Incredible shooting, landscapes, beautiful actors, cool game!
A very very big recommendation 🌟

Great mini-series!

I haven't read the book, but the series turned out great. Especially touched by the soul, the scrupulous development of storylines.

A very emotional series came out ...
The picture, the music, the cast all worked out in a wonderful story...❤️

In the comments above it is written that there were no Nazis in the besieged city. This is not true, three or four English-speaking sources claim about 12 tons of Germans who refused to surrender. The city was indeed destroyed, it was an important trading port

And then what happened?(Who has read the book, is there a continuation of the story?

A very beautiful story! Perhaps one of the best series of this year. Everything is in harmony and the script, and the picture, and the actors. I also wanted to read the book)

First I read the book and fell in love with it (taking advantage of the moment - I also recommend the second novel from Anthony Dorr - The Bird City behind the Clouds - especially if you like stories in the spirit of Cloud Atlas). I already found out about the series after reading that it was going to be released. I was waiting for him, and... I was a little disappointed. No, the actors are wonderful, the cast is amazing, the story itself was also told. But very succinctly, removing a lot. It's like taking a recipe for a dish, throwing out some of the ingredients from it and forcing some of the remaining ones to play the role of the missing ones - it looks like the same, but the taste is not the same. But it's worth admitting that I liked the ending a little more in the series - specifically the line with Werner. Here the final is open, in the book the final is completed for him:(

A very touching series, the main actors are wonderful. In the end, it began to shake a little from the "good Americans who came to save everyone," but what to do.

A very beautiful and touching story.
The main character is very beautiful and her eyes are very beautiful, it's a pity if she is actually blind, as they said in the comments in previous episodes. ❤️🖤
A well-chosen cast: Ruffalo, Laurie, Hoffman, Eidinger and "the cherry on the cake" - Aria Mia Loberti.

That the book, that the series is not "military" (the war is affected here, in my opinion, in a very light form)

And also, I don't remember how it was described in the book, but to throw this stone just like that near the shore, it's very strange. But it wasn't even her stone, but the property of France.

They made a great scene with the murder of detective diamond, especially the way he falls and the last thing he sees is a diamond...

Ugh, how hard it was to see that. On the one hand, the actors are very good, everything looks beautiful and the music is not bad. On the other hand, these good actors are forced to speak idiotic, pretentious dialogues, and the plot causes a reaction of "why? What the hell?" almost every 10 minutes.
An SS officer can block the whole city, but for some reason he cannot order his men to comb this small town and find a blind girl, even though she is not even hiding and just walking down the street. The Nazis, for some reason, urgently need a kid who knows how to fasten 2 wires with chewing gum. In the camp for special National socialist youth, trust trainings are conducted, they teach how to assemble a radio at speed and write with a stick on wet ground. Werner killed his commander to save the life of a French resistance fighter, but all the same, the entire French resistance begins to yell at him in unison and present something, until they are very successfully killed by American artillery. A blind girl aptly kills the main villain right in the head and pretentiously pronounces one-liner, like the hero of some action movie. It is very difficult to perceive this in any way adequately.
Vibes are straight "The World is on fire", except that, unlike him, "All the light invisible to us" can still be watched and admired at least by the actors.

The book was already quite cinematic, just take it and shoot it. But they shoveled and simplified everything so much that it turned out to be a flat and vulgar mess, worthy of one-off films from the Hallmark TV channel. Good characters speak platitudes in the most pretentious tone, bad ones growl in raised tones, regardless of the situation, so that the viewer understands that they are bad, well.
It's a shame for the great actors.
There was also a question why they recruited German actors, everyone speaks English anyway, and the French are not played by the French.
I liked the use of archive footage after the credits.

It's a pity that Marie's father was killed by this sick fascist. She hoped that he would come back to her

With the last episode came disappointment. And immediately all the previous weak points of the plot became so obvious, which were swallowed in the hope of a powerful ending, but alas. Take, for example, the line with the stone: the father died, for the sake of his safety, the daughter threw the stone near the shore. Of the advantages: actors and a picture.

I am grateful to this series for only one thing — it brought me to the most precious book. And for everything else, I will write big negative comments and try to justify them. In short, it is a pity that the book was written in the 14th year and it has to endure such a lousy film adaptation, where absolutely everything is bad except actors, camera work and editing.
Ideally, it is a book for the spirit of Soviet cinema with its measured narration about the hard life of people of the last century in 20 episodes, for example, "The Long Road in the Dunes", "The Eternal Call". We could see the mines of Gilsenkirchen, the Schalke club, the life of the Ruhr region, full of soot, Napoleon, colorful Paris from Dumas' novels and the endless Museum of Natural History, with its labyrinths similar to the Louvre. It would be simple and beautiful, like the consciousness of a twentieth-century man.
But, of course, I understand that for a modern viewer, showing 80% of the book where the childhood of Werner and Marie-Laure takes place will be unreadable. Therefore, it is necessary to make a vivid caricature of the Reich, an abundance of evil SS men and their evil German (comically going against the background of English speech), tormenting little girls and even their little boys, cram in more modern ethical phrases like "the war because of one old fool", a lot of hints about the problems of minorities the other day. To make the plot flat, theatrical, and, I'm sorry, but childishly stupid: a fairy tale with evil fools and kind kindness. The atmosphere and depth were killed. By the middle of the second episode, it was as if I was slowly starting to watch Inglourious Bastards (we even had one of the Diehl brothers play a boogie-woogie officer again), and not a film adaptation of a touching book.
Why couldn't we make an atmosphere like in "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "Our Mothers, our Fathers", or even like in the modern "On the Western Front without Change" from the same Netflix? We could get the moral tragedy of a man, a child in the adult world, who, despite the horrors of war, remained kind... broken, but not embittered.

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I really liked the series, it's a bit boring and drawn out in places, but it's a solid 4 out of 5.

Still, I would not dare to claim that the actress is definitely blind, as some wrote, but the fact that she is visually impaired is a fact.

And she fitted in very well with the cast.

A really beautiful and talented actress!

1) I was waiting for Marie to shoot the bastard officer herself, HOORAY, it happened!
2) Where's the epilogue, CARL, well, 30 seconds could have been shown! Whether the guy is alive or not, in the end, they met after the war or not (Well, everything was perfect, not a TV series, but 15 out of 10! I'm going to Google how everything in the book ended.
3) Vibe of the Dark Beginnings, music of the Hunger Games, from the creator of Stranger Things - that's how this series should be advertised)

The only advantage of the film adaptation is the excellent actors in the roles of Marie, her father, aunt and Etienne (it's not Hugh Laurie's fault that he was prescribed such a script)

The first big fat disadvantage: Werner was made into some kind of unfortunate victim of circumstances, although according to the book he chose his own path. Okay, he didn't have much choice, but he chose to follow it (and no one threatened him with a gun, he went to school on his own, full of false hopes). And he had a friend at school who chose not to go that way.

In general, if Dorr showed the Americans in a favorable light, which he did not do, it did not justify the fascists. In the book, Werner is an accomplice and his ending is logical. And here is the "victim".
After Etienne's yell, "But he's good! "I just got upset and stayed there until the end of this mess.

A smaller problem against this background is the lost logic of events, everyone is running around the destroyed city under bombing, the fascist cannot find Marie's house among three streets when there were signs with a list of tenants on the doors.

And a lot of pretentious, very ear-splitting monologues. Which are hard to believe.

Oh, and of course we're used to it being easy to kill people on screen, but Marie would hardly be able to kill a person. It's not that easy to do, even if you hate him, and it's a good thing she didn't become the killer in the book. These were parts of the Werner Arch.

I am silent about the inappropriately caricatured fascists, everyone is overplaying and fighting in hysterics from scratch.

As is often the case, the book is better.