I Was Nineteen
Ich war neunzehn
Release: 1968-02-01
·Runtime: 115m
·★ 7.3
Drama
History
War
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.
Production Countries
East Germany
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg''
Cast
Jaecki Schwarz
as Gregor Hecker
Galina Polskikh
as Sowjetisches Mädchen
Jürgen Hentsch
as Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
Mikhail Gluzskiy
as Sowjetisches General
Dieter Mann
Rolf Hoppe
as Etappenmajor Behring
Kurt Böwe
as SS-Sturmbannführer
Hermann Beyer
as Zweiter befreiter Häftling
Wolfgang Greese
as Landschaftsarchitekt
Johannes Wieke
as Oberst Lewerenz
Aleksey Eybozhenko
Anatoliy Solovyov
Vasiliy Livanov
as Wadim
Jenny Gröllmann
as deutsches Mädchen
Afanasi Kochetkov
Wolfgang Winkler
Martin Trettau
Klaus Manchen
