''Clash of Futures'' is a

documentary drama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typica ...

series by Jan Peter and Gunnar Dedio. The series is the continuation of ''

14 - Diaries of the Great War ''14 - Diaries of the Great War'' (titled ''Great War Diaries'' when aired on the BBC) is a 2014 international documentary drama series about World War I. It uses a mix of acted scenes, archive footage, and animation. All episodes were directed b ...

'' (2014) and tells the personal stories of thirteen people from all over Europe during the

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. The series was part of the eponymous project Clash of Futures. In addition to the series, the project included a theatrical and a radio piece, a book, various Europe-wide special exhibitions and a

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. In the anniversary year of the end of the First World War, the eight-part series first aired September 11, 2018 on Arte.

Plot

''Clash of Futures'' depicts the history of Europe between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. The multilingual, documentary drama series condenses history into the subjective experience of individuals. It focuses on the fate of thirteen people from nine nations. The protagonists include the

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

Hans Beimler, the silent film star Pola Negri, the later

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

commander Rudolf Höß and the French

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

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. In addition, there is a continuation of the story of the Russian

child soldier Children (defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as people under the age of 18) have been recruited for participation in military operations and campaigns throughout history and in many cultures. Children in the military, includ ...

Marina Yurlova Marina Yurlova (russian: Мари́на Максимилиа́новна Ю́рлова; 25 February 1900 - 1 April 1984) was a Russian child soldier and author. She fought in World War I and later in the Russian Civil War on the side of the anti- ...

and the war reporter

Charles Edward Montague Charles Edward Montague (1 January 1867 – 28 May 1928) was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. Biography Montague was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left his ...

from ''14 - Diaries of the Great War'' (2014).

Production

The source for the scripts were the protagonists' diaries, letters and

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. The series was co-produced by

LOOKSfilm LOOKSfilm is a German film production company, based in Leipzig, Berlin, Hanover and Halle (Saale). The company was founded in 1995 by Gunnar Dedio. It develops, produces and distributes series as well as documentary and feature films for the ...

( Germany), IRIS Group ( Luxembourg) and Les Films d'Ici ( France), with Fortis Imaginatio (Germany) and in association with Wajda Studio ( Poland). The shooting took place in Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany.

Episodes

Awards and nominations

2019 * Nominated for the Grimme-Preis in the category "Information & Culture" * Award of the French film composer association UMCF (Union des compositeurs de musiques de films) for Laurent Eyquem in the category: "Best Music for a Documentary" * Civis - Europe's Media Prize for Integration (Europas Medienpreis für Integration) in the category "Entertainment (fictional)" * Nominated for the German-French Journalist Award 2019 (Deutsch-Französischen Journalistenpreis) * Nominated for the DAFF Award of the German Academy for Television (Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen) in the categories "Screenplay" and "VFX / Animation"

References

External links

* * {{IMDb title, 6489202 German-language television shows French-language television shows English-language television shows Documentary television series about World War I 2010s documentary television series 2018 German television series debuts