The concept - based on a novel - is fine. A young woman who works as a translator of Polish to English at a WWII war crimes trial in the 1960s in Frankfurt, is surprisingly unaware of the brutality and murders at Auschwitz. In hearing testimony, she comes to know of the horrors of the camp.
She also learns that her parents lived next to the camp when her father was a cook in the officers mess. She had fleeting memories of those times, but doesn't realize where they lived at the time.
Mixed into this basic plot are subplots having to do with a fiancee and his family; her older sister, a nurse with mental-emotional needs; a confused, young assistant prosecutor; and an incident during the camp days involving her parents and a defendant. Some of this material might work in a novel, but needs to be removed from s film or television series.
Some of the scenes are simply pointless or poorly executed. Some would-be artsy shots are silly.
Again, the concept of young Germans to their horror learning the truth about Auschwitz and her family's connected history is good. Telling the story in a series requires focus and discipline.
She also learns that her parents lived next to the camp when her father was a cook in the officers mess. She had fleeting memories of those times, but doesn't realize where they lived at the time.
Mixed into this basic plot are subplots having to do with a fiancee and his family; her older sister, a nurse with mental-emotional needs; a confused, young assistant prosecutor; and an incident during the camp days involving her parents and a defendant. Some of this material might work in a novel, but needs to be removed from s film or television series.
Some of the scenes are simply pointless or poorly executed. Some would-be artsy shots are silly.
Again, the concept of young Germans to their horror learning the truth about Auschwitz and her family's connected history is good. Telling the story in a series requires focus and discipline.