I Was Nineteen
1968-02-01 | 115 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Jaecki SchwarzGregor Hecker
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Vasiliy LivanovWadim
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Rolf HoppeEtappenmajor Behring
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Galina PolskikhSowjetisches Mädchen
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Jürgen HentschOberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
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Kurt BöweSS-Sturmbannführer
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Hermann Beyer2. befreiter Häftling
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Mikhail GluzskiySowjetisches General
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Jenny Gröllmanndeutsches Mädchen
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Wolfgang GreeseLandschaftsarchitekt
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Johannes WiekeOberst Lewerenz
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Aleksey Eybozhenko
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Anatoliy Solovyov
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Klaus Manchen
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Afanasi Kochetkov
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Dieter Mann
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Wolfgang Winkler
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