Plot Summary
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.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Erziehung vor Verdun
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- de
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Cast
Klaus Piontek
Werner Bertin
Benjamin Besson
Leutnant Kroysing
Milan Neděla
Hauptmann Niggel
Dietmar Richter-Reinick
Wilhelm Pahl
Jürgen Hentsch
Karl Lebede
Carl Heinz Choynski
Unteroffizier Glinski
Axel Dietrich
Unteroffizier Süßmann
Uwe Kockisch
Christoph Kroysing
Klaus-Peter Thiele
Leutnant Mettner
Klaus Manchen
Pater Lochner
Ralph Boettner
Oberst Stein
Paul Arenkens
Major Jantsch
Ernst Schumacher
Ernst Schumacher
Egon Günther
Leutnant Mahnitz
Werner Kamenik
Feldwebel Feicht
Peter Krieg-Helbig
Peter Krieg-Helbig
Jean-Pierre Franklemon
Schweizer Militärschriftsteller
Ulrich Teschner
Unteroffizier Böhme
Willi Scholz
Gefreiter aus Baden
Achim Petry
Hauptmann Lauber
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
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