The read
It runs long at 4h 24m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Egon GüntherDirector
- Egon GüntherScreenplay
- Heinz KamnitzerScreenplay
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