Unbelievably naive plot

It is possible. My grandmother was a German woman who fell in love with an American soldier during the war, then she returned to the states with him after the war. Her brothers were officers in the Wehrmacht. And it is a soldiers job to fight to preserve a better future and even if that means the lose of innocence. Love is love, and all people are not the same. Just because someone is significantly different doesn't mean you cannot share great affection for them.

Just my thoughts..

She was already falling for him by the time she found out who he was. She saw him talk that little boy out of killing himself, so she knew that he was a good guy.
Also, she had already seen first-hand what Nazis were like and that they were not good....

There are plenty of people who can separate what military people do with the individuals who are in the military. People understand war and what it is like.
Germans understood "following orders", too.

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"There had to be Englishman in there to give us a reason to watch it"

I'm Finnish & I don't pick the movies I can/can't watch based on the fact whether there's a Finnish character in the movie.

I've seen many documentaries about Dresden and I think that overtly pc (the main character's love interest just couldn't have been a German, they were all Nazi monsters straight from hell) movies like this are sickening.

I repeat my earlier queston: How fond feelings would a nurse, who'd be in the center stage of all the suffering, have for a man who just took part in the cold blooded (and totally needless) killing of thousands of unarmed refugees?

Here's a historic fact: late in the war German pilots were equipped with an arm band with the words "German Air Force" to prevent them from being mistaken for Allied pilots, so in case they bailed out from their aircraft and lost their consciousness, they would not be lynched by German civilians who were out to exact "eye for an eye" style of revenge on Allied pilots.

P.s. don't compare "Slaughterhouse Five" to a crappy movie like this. Vonnegut denounced the bombings while "Dresden" turns the whole thing into a ridicilous soap opera.

i'm a sucker when it comes to WWII tv series/movies especially international ones, it might be cliche, but it was good, i think the two protagonist understood each other the moment they met. Plus she wasn't a full pledge nazi like her little sister who was after all in the Bund deutsche madel.
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The plot is indeed quite ridiculous. I don't have any problem with people from enemy nations falling in love, but rather my main issue is with the way in which Anna and Robert fell in love in the film. I can understand why Anna did not report Robert to the authorities when she discovered him in the cellar. I can also accept that Anna, as a nurse, felt an obligation to attend to his wounds. But later, when Robert posed as a wounded German soldier and was put into a hospital bed, for absolutely no reason they began kissing each other. At that point, she didn't know who he was and in fact they had hardly spoken to each other at all. Moreover, she already had a fiancé. What did Robert and Anna see in each other?

Later, Anna got upset on learning that Robert was a bomber pilot: she had thought he was a spy! Bomber pilots, after all, were just following orders and had no choice. It never occurred to her that an enemy spy could have done far greater damage to her country.

Then Robert escaped and instead of making himself scarce, chose to stay to expose her father's black market dealings in morphine. He even attended her engagement party with many German officers present. By that time, the film had already thrown all common sense and logic out the window.

At the height of bombing, Anna ran away from the shelter to look for Robert and indirectly caused the death of her father when he searched for her. Of course, the script requires that she should find him before he died, and that later her fiancé should find her and then they together should find Robert! Presumably that could happen because Dresden had a population of just some 50 people.

The film could have focused more on the bombing itself - especially the more controversial politics and other considerations behind the British decision. Instead, the romance part was just silly. Also, I don't find Anna to be a sympathetic character: she was far too selfish. A story about that German woman with her Jewish husband or the German boy soldier would have been more engaging.