Erziehung vor Verdun
Erziehung vor Verdun
Release: 1973-11-25
·Runtime: 264m
TV Movie
War
Drama
The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
Production Countries
East Germany
Germany
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Fernsehen der DDR
Cast
Klaus Piontek
as Werner Bertin
Lutz Stückrath
Uwe Kockisch
as Christoph Kroysing
Paul Arenkens
as Major Jantsch
Carl Heinz Choynski
as Unteroffizier Glinski
Hans-Dieter Schlegel
as General
Dietmar Richter-Reinick
as Wilhelm Pahl
Egon Günther
as Leutnant Mahnitz
Christine Schorn
Milan Neděla
as Hauptmann Niggel
Jürgen Hentsch
as Karl Lebede
Klaus-Peter Thiele
as Leutnant Mettner
Ralph Boettner
as Oberst Stein
Klaus Manchen
as Pater Lochner
Thomas Thieme