Erziehung vor Verdun

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.

• Egon GüntherDirector
• Karl-Ernst SasseOriginal Music Composer
• Egon GüntherScreenplay
• Heinz KamnitzerScreenplay

• 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