It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During the hunt for a forced labourer who is on the run, Günter catches him and watches as he is shot to death. He proudly accepts the award of an Iron Cross before being shipped to the nearby front as part of the last contingent of troops. He is quickly captured by Soviet soldiers, but manages to escape and return home. When the town is occupied by the Red Army, Günter is arrested for the murder of the forced labourer. The film was banned in 1968 before it was completed, and a large portion of the negative was later destroyed.
Heiner Carow
Director, Writer
Claus Küchenmeister
Writer
Gert Krause-Melzer
Günter
Viktor Perevalov
Igor
Dorothea Meissner
Christine
Norbert Christian
Vater Bergschicker
Karla Runkehl
Mutter Bergschicker
Vsevolod Safonov
Golubkow
Rolf Ludwig
Vater Walcher
Katja Paryla
Mutter Walcher
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Polizist
The Monuments Men60%
Escape to Victory68%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas78%
The Great Escape79%
The Zone of Interest70%
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin67%
Paradise Road63%
Lauf Junge lauf71%
Uprising65%
Operation Mincemeat65%
The Guns of Navarone72%
The Longest Day76%
Hitler: The Last Ten Days62%
The Island on Bird Street71%
So weit die Füße tragen71%
Hell Is for Heroes65%
The War Below67%
The Big Red One67%
The Book Thief74%
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada68%
