Erziehung vor Verdun
1973 · 4h 24m · N/A
Drama, TV Movie, War
Directed by
Egon Günther
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Erziehung vor Verdun
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Egon Günther Director
- Klaus Piontek as Werner Bertin
- Benjamin Besson as Leutnant Kroysing
- Milan Neděla as Hauptmann Niggel
- Dietmar Richter-Reinick as Wilhelm Pahl
- Jürgen Hentsch as Karl Lebede
- Carl Heinz Choynski as Unteroffizier Glinski
- Axel Dietrich as Unteroffizier Süßmann
- Uwe Kockisch as Christoph Kroysing
- Klaus-Peter Thiele as Leutnant Mettner
- Klaus Manchen as Pater Lochner
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