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I Was Nineteen

7.2 115 mins Drama   History   1968
DEFA   Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg''  
Director(s): Konrad Wolf

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.

Casts of I Was Nineteen

Jaecki Schwarz

as Gregor Hecker

Vasiliy Livanov

as Wadim

Rolf Hoppe

as Etappenmajor Behring

Galina Polskikh

as Sowjetisches Mädchen

Jürgen Hentsch

as Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant

Kurt Böwe

as SS-Sturmbannführer

Hermann Beyer

as 2. befreiter Häftling

Mikhail Gluzskiy

as Sowjetisches General

Jenny Gröllmann

as deutsches Mädchen

Wolfgang Greese

as Landschaftsarchitekt

Johannes Wieke

as Oberst Lewerenz

Fritz Mohr

as Feldwebel

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