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
Milan Neděla
as Hauptmann Niggel
Dietmar Richter-Reinick
as Wilhelm Pahl
Jürgen Hentsch
as Karl Lebede
Carl Heinz Choynski
as Unteroffizier Glinski
Uwe Kockisch
as Christoph Kroysing
Klaus-Peter Thiele
as Leutnant Mettner
Klaus Manchen
as Pater Lochner
Ralph Boettner
as Oberst Stein
Paul Arenkens
as Major Jantsch
Egon Günther
as Leutnant Mahnitz
Hans-Dieter Schlegel
as General
Christine Schorn
Lutz Stückrath
Thomas Thieme
