Legacy
It tells the story of Alexander Münninghoff (Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen) who fell in love with the self-assured, free-spirited Ellen (Sallie Harmsen) in the late 1960s. When, after a beautiful night of love, he confesses that his father, Frans Münninghoff (Robert de Hoog, as a young Frans, Marcel Hensema as an old Frans), was an SS man during the war, Ellen reacts dismissively. Her family suffered greatly from the war. She disappears from his life ... only to reappear in it a good month later. She is pregnant. The twenties want to keep the child and decide to get married. But then on the condition that Alexander deals with his dark family past. Alexander finds out that he knows very little about his parents and grandfather (Gijs Scholten van Aschat).
- 2023-2023
- 1 season
- Drama, Documentary, Action & Adventure
It tells the story of Alexander Münninghoff (Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen) who fell in love with the self-assured, free-spirited Ellen (Sallie Harmsen) in the late 1960s. When, after a beautiful night of love, he confesses that his father, Frans Münninghoff (Robert de Hoog, as a young Frans, Marcel Hensema as an old Frans), was an SS man during the war, Ellen reacts dismissively. Her family suffered greatly from the war. She disappears from his life ... only to reappear in it a good month later. She is pregnant. The twenties want to keep the child and decide to get married. But then on the condition that Alexander deals with his dark family past. Alexander finds out that he knows very little about his parents and grandfather (Gijs Scholten van Aschat).
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2023
Episode 1
Make love, not war
50 mins
The Hague, 1969. The unworldly Alexander falls head over heels in love with the hip, free-spirited Ellen. When she discovers that Alexander's family is hiding a dark war past, she resolutely breaks with him. Shocked by Ellen's rejection, Alexander reconnects with his embittered father and tries to find out what he did as an SS soldier during World War II.
Episode 2
Bist du der Bully?
49 mins
Fate has brought Ellen and Alexander back together. As they prepare for marriage, Ellen learns more and more about Alexander's unhappy childhood. She convinces him to search for his long-lost mother in Germany. Meanwhile, Alexander's father also returns to Germany. The death of his uncle and mentor from Riga brings him back into contact with his 'Alte Kameraden' and that awakens wild childhood memories in him.
Episode 3
Op ridderschap en trouw
50 mins
A visit to his mother gives Alexander a serious hangover, disappointed he turns away from Wera. His father Frans is now fully enjoying his nostalgia trip to Germany. He delves into the past and relives his great, romantic childhood love with Wera. But at the end of the 1930s dark clouds of war also gather over Latvia. The young, brash Frans falls more and more under the spell of Nazism.
Episode 4
Het bal begint
50 mins
At the end of the 1930s, Frans and Wera are fighting for their love. While the Old Lord tries to match his heir with a good wife, and even the Kennedys come into view for a while, Frans only wants to marry Wera and then join the army. Thirty years later, Alexander and Ellen continue to search in vain for answers to the past. They visit an old SS friend of Frans and ask him the ultimate question: did Alexander's father commit war crimes?
Episode 5
Een Duitse held
50 mins
The Münninghoffs each try to get through the war unscathed in their own way. But Frans learns at the Wiking Division that there is no honor to be gained on the battlefields in the east and Wera gets entangled in the German destruction machine in Poland. Only the Old Lord does good business in the Netherlands. Cunning as he is, he maintains good contacts with both the resistance and the occupier. Thirty years later, Ellen and Alexander are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new Münninghoff.
Episode 6
Een baby
50 mins
In Ukraine, Frans is involved in a devastating war crime. When he rebels against his officers, he is sent to a suicide squad. In the Netherlands, the Old Lord brings his relations in the resistance and the German supreme command into contact with each other and thus becomes involved in an assassination plot on Hitler. Ellen and Alexander experience the most difficult hours of their lives when their baby is born prematurely and appears unviable.
Episode 7
Een Nederlandse familie
50 mins
The war is nearing its end. Alexander is born during a Russian bombing raid in Poland. Frans takes his son to safety in the German countryside and then has to return to the Eastern Front, to a certain death. In the Netherlands, the Old Lord is in a tight spot after a raid. Both the Sicherheitsdienst and the resistance see him as a traitor. Many decades later, the loss of the baby threatens to drive Ellen and Alexander apart again. But the grief also brings him closer to his mother.
Episode 8
Een bevrijding
50 mins