Tannbach is a German television series that first aired on ZDF in 2015.[1] It is a fictionalized story inspired by the village of Mödlareuth and its families that were divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach. The series explores the traumatic period of German history between the end of World War II and 1952. For the people of the village, the end of the war does not mean the end of hardship, soon the Cold War takes over and the village as well as the people become divided[2] along geographic and political lines. The series has 2 seasons and is known as "Line of Separation" in the United States. "Line of Separation" was picked up by PBS as a streaming offering.[3]

Tannbach
GenreDrama
Directed byAlexander Dierbach
StarringHeiner Lauterbach
Natalia Wörner
Henriette Confurius
Jonas Nay
Original languageGerman
No. of seasons2 seasons
No. of episodes6 episodes
Production
Running timeca 90 Minutes
Original release
NetworkZDF
Release2015 (2015) –
2018 (2018)

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References

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  1. ^ "TANNBACH - fate of a village". www.zdf.de.
  2. ^ Hupertz, Heike (8 January 2018). ""Tannbach" geht weiter: Die Grenze wird zur Mauer, auch in den Köpfen" (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Line of Separation". PBS.org.
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