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Erziehung vor Verdun

Film / 1973

Erziehung vor Verdun

Directed by Egon Günther

TV movieWarDrama

★ 9.0/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Klaus PiontekWerner Bertin Benjamin BessonLeutnant Kroysing Milan NedělaHauptmann Niggel Dietmar Richter-ReinickWilhelm Pahl Jürgen HentschKarl Lebede Carl Heinz ChoynskiUnteroffizier Glinski Axel DietrichUnteroffizier Süßmann Uwe KockischChristoph Kroysing Klaus-Peter ThieleLeutnant Mettner Klaus ManchenPater Lochner Ralph BoettnerOberst Stein Paul ArenkensMajor Jantsch

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