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I Was Nineteen

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Calorie Rating: 162
Released: 1968-02-01
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Studios: DEFA, Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg'',


Gregor is a young soldier entering Germany with the victorious Soviet troops at the end of WWII. But he is also the child of left-wing Germans who fled from Hitler and spent the war in the Soviet Union. As a result, his return to Germany is ambivalent; he finds he is a stranger in his own land. As they enter Germany, Gregor begins to realize that he is different from all his comrades in arms, for this defeated land is his home country, the Germans he meets are his compatriots. He is a victor, but also one of the vanquished. He attempts to understand the Germans he meets along his way, but he is a 19-year-old: inquisitive, occasionally uncomprehending and repeatedly dismayed by the atrocities and lies he encounters.

Director / Directors

Konrad Wolf
Director


Cast

Jaecki Schwarz
Character: Gregor Hecker
Vasiliy Livanov
Character: Wadim
Rolf Hoppe
Character: Etappenmajor Behring

Galina Polskikh
Character: Sowjetisches Mädchen
Jürgen Hentsch
Character: Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
Kurt Böwe
Character: SS-Sturmbannführer

Hermann Beyer
Character: 2. befreiter Häftling
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Character: Sowjetisches General
Jenny Gröllmann
Character: deutsches Mädchen

Wolfgang Greese
Character: Landschaftsarchitekt
Johannes Wieke
Character: Oberst Lewerenz
Fritz Mohr
Character: Feldwebel





Production and Crew


Werner Bergmann
Director of Photography