I Was Nineteen

Synopsis

Gregor is a young soldier entering Germany with the victorious Soviet troops at the end of WWII. But he is also the child of left-wing Germans who fled from Hitler and spent the war in the Soviet Union. As a result, his return to Germany is ambivalent; he finds he is a stranger in his own land. As they enter Germany, Gregor begins to realize that he is different from all his comrades in arms, for this defeated land is his home country, the Germans he meets are his compatriots. He is a victor, but also one of the vanquished. He attempts to understand the Germans he meets along his way, but he is a 19-year-old: inquisitive, occasionally uncomprehending and repeatedly dismayed by the atrocities and lies he encounters.

Main Cast

Jaecki Schwarz

Gregor Hecker

Age : 78 | Popularity : 28%

Vasiliy Livanov

Wadim

Age : N/A | Popularity : 34%

Rolf Hoppe

Etappenmajor Behring

Age : 87 | Popularity : 31%

Galina Polskikh

Sowjetisches Mädchen

Age : N/A | Popularity : 28%

Jürgen Hentsch

Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant

Age : N/A | Popularity : 32%

Kurt Böwe

SS-Sturmbannführer

Age : 71 | Popularity : 13%

Hermann Beyer

2. befreiter Häftling

Age : 81 | Popularity : 43%

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Sowjetisches General

Age : N/A | Popularity : 77%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Konrad Wolf
Writing	Writer	Wolfgang Kohlhaase Konrad Wolf Gerhard Wolf
Editing	Editor	Evelyn Carow
Camera	Director of Photography	Werner Bergmann
Department	Role	Name

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