Dreading the day...

...this will be released.
teamworx, the people behind such...ahem, "pearls" like the 2-parter Dresden, which I took my sweet time eviscerating in writing and as a video, have just started filming a new piece of what I'd like to call "historytainment for the simple-minded".

This time the object of their attention is Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox. The picture below was part of the initial press release, showing veteran actor Ulrich Tukur as the famous officer. [image error] Ulrich Tukur (left) as Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. This
picture will most likely be the best thing about the whole
project.
Going by teamworx' record so far, I have the dire feeling that this picture will be the best thing about the whole venture. If Dresden or Die Flucht (The Escape, a 2-parter about the mass exodus from East Prussia when the Red Army invaded) are indicative of what we can expect, we will get love triangles, moralistic preaching, probably Rommel or someone else on his staff being hardcore hidden democrats, some Waffen-SS or Gestapo guys being stereotypically evil just for the hell of it, and a big, wagging index finger telling us (the initial German audience) how bad we were (even though the people who were barely recruits back then are already dying out). Tukur's presence is the only thing that gives me some slight hopes that this project might turn out decent.

I will still watch it - I am feeling professionally obliged to do so - but really, I have few if any hopes about this being any good when it will be released next year. Bah, couldn't they have left Rommel alone?