I Was Nineteen
01/02/1968
2h



A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.
Cast


Jaecki Schwarz
Gregor Hecker


Vasiliy Livanov
Wadim


Rolf Hoppe
Etappenmajor Behring


Galina Polskikh
Sowjetisches Mädchen


Jürgen Hentsch
Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant


Kurt Böwe
SS-Sturmbannführer


Hermann Beyer
Zweiter befreiter Häftling


Mikhail Gluzskiy
Sowjetisches General


Jenny Gröllmann
deutsches Mädchen


Wolfgang Greese
Landschaftsarchitekt


Johannes Wieke
Oberst Lewerenz
Fritz Mohr
Feldwebel
Otto Lang
Pfarrer


Aleksey Eybozhenko


Anatoliy Solovyov


Klaus Manchen
Walter Bechstein


Afanasi Kochetkov


Dieter Mann


Wolfgang Winkler


Martin Trettau
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