I Was Nineteen (1968)
Ich war neunzehn
114 min
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.
- Release date
- February 1, 1968
- Country of origin
- Germany
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Cast
- Jaecki Schwarz as Gregor Hecker
- Vasiliy Livanov as Wadim Gejman
- Rolf Hoppe as Major Behring
- Galina Polskikh as Sowjetisches Mädchen
- Jürgen Hentsch as Oberleutnant Schenk
- Kurt Böwe as SS-Sturmbannführer
- Hermann Beyer as Zweiter befreiter Häftling
- Mikhail Gluzskiy as Sowjetisches General
- Jenny Gröllmann as Deutsches Mädchen
- Wolfgang Greese as Landschaftsarchitekt
- Johannes Wieke as Oberst Lewerenz
- Aleksey Eybozhenko as Sascha Ziganjuk
- Klaus Manchen
- Afanasi Kochetkov
- Dieter Mann as Willi Lommer
- Wolfgang Winkler
- Martin Trettau
- Kalmursa Rachmanov as Dsingis
- Anatoliy Solovyov as Starschinka
Crew
- Konrad Wolf · Director
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase · Writer
- Gerhard Wolf · Writer
- Konrad Wolf · Writer
- Werner Bergmann · Cinematographer
- Evelyn Carow · Editor
- Alfred Hirschmeier · Production designer