''Dresden'' is a 2006 German television film directed by

Roland Suso Richter Roland Suso Richter (born January 7, 1961, in Marburg) is a German film director and Film producer, producer. Biography Richter was born in Marburg and lived there until 1980, when he graduated (Abitur) from the local Elisabethschule Marburg, E ...

. It is set during the

bombing of Dresden The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Ro ...

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. This romance movie takes place during the historical Anglo-American bombing of the city of Dresden in February 1945. It was produced by the

ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...

, a German Public Television Programme, and was originally split in two parts of 90 minutes each. A cinema version was then released in 2010. The film was inspired by Jörg Friedrich's book ''The Fire''. The €10 million production was shot on original locations in Dresden and Chemnitz.

Plot

Anna ( Felicitas Woll), daughter of a wealthy hospital director, works as a nurse along with her father and her future husband, Doctor Alexander ( Benjamin Sadler). Whilst behind enemy lines, British pilot Robert Newman ( John Light) is severely wounded and hides in the hospital's cellar. Anna finds him and cures his wounds, slowly falling in love with him. The story takes place before and during the bombing of Dresden (13 February 1945) and it follows the characters through 3 days in the city.

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* 2006 films 2006 television films German drama television films 2000s German-language films German-language television shows ZDF original programming German World War II films German aviation films Films about shot-down aviators Films scored by Harald Kloser Films set in 1945 Films set in Dresden 2000s German films Works about the bombing of Dresden {{Germany-tv-film-stub