Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war.
Direction
Kunert's ambivalent framing—celebrating socialist values while showing war's rot.
Acting
Thiele's face: every flicker from true believer to haunted witness.
Director
Joachim Kunert
Klaus-Peter Thiele
Werner Holt
Arno Wyzniewski
Sepp Gomulka
Günter Junghans
Christian Vetter
Peter Reusse
Peter Wiese
Monika Woytowicz
Gundel Theiß
Dietlinde Greiff
Marie Krüger
Angelica Domröse
Uta Barnim
Manfred Karge
Gilbert Wolzow
Wolfgang Langhoff
Professor Holt
Erika Pelikowsky
Frau Wolzow
Martin Flörchinger
Rechtsanwalt Gomulka
Helga Göring
Frau Gomulka
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