Overview
A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.
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Awards
Won the National Prize of East Germany and the Heinrich Greif Prize
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Setting
Set in Berlin
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Werner Bergmann
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Konrad WolfWriter
- Wolfgang KohlhaaseWriter
- Gerhard WolfWriter
- Original title
- Ich war neunzehn
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 1, 1968
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
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Cast
Jaecki SchwarzGregor Hecker
Vasiliy LivanovWadim
Rolf HoppeEtappenmajor Behring
Galina PolskikhSowjetisches Mädchen
Jürgen HentschOberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
Kurt BöweSS-Sturmbannführer
Hermann BeyerZweiter befreiter Häftling
Mikhail GluzskiySowjetisches General
Jenny Gröllmanndeutsches Mädchen
Wolfgang GreeseLandschaftsarchitekt
Johannes WiekeOberst Lewerenz- Fritz MohrFeldwebel
- Otto LangPfarrer
Aleksey Eybozhenko
Anatoliy Solovyov
Klaus Manchen- Walter Bechstein
Afanasi Kochetkov
Dieter Mann
Wolfgang Winkler
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