Feature film — 1968
I Was Nineteen (1968)
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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A high-signal pick with 28 votes.
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme / Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg''
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Director: Konrad Wolf
On screen
Cast & crew
Jaecki Schwarz
Gregor Hecker
Vasiliy Livanov
Wadim
Rolf Hoppe
Etappenmajor Behring
Galina Polskikh
Sowjetisches Mädchen
Jürgen Hentsch
Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
Kurt Böwe
SS-Sturmbannführer
Hermann Beyer
Zweiter befreiter Häftling
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Sowjetisches General
Jenny Gröllmann
deutsches Mädchen
Wolfgang Greese
Landschaftsarchitekt
Johannes Wieke
Oberst Lewerenz
Fritz Mohr
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