I Was Nineteen (1968)

Name: I Was Nineteen
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1968-02-01
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Jaecki Schwarz, Vasiliy Livanov, Rolf Hoppe, Galina Polskikh, Jürgen Hentsch

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.

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Released 1968-02-01 · 115 min · Drama, History, War

Directed by Konrad Wolf

Cast

Jaecki Schwarz as Gregor Hecker
Vasiliy Livanov as Wadim
Rolf Hoppe as Etappenmajor Behring
Galina Polskikh as Sowjetisches Mädchen
Jürgen Hentsch as Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
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
Fritz Mohr as Feldwebel
Otto Lang as Pfarrer
Aleksey Eybozhenko
Anatoliy Solovyov