Plot Summary
Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Cologne’s young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mother’s death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Otto’s financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Edelweißpiraten
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- de
Where to watch free (US)
Cast
Bela B.
Hans Steinbrück
Ivan Stebunov
Karl Ripke
Simon Taal
Peter Ripke
Anna Thalbach
Cilly Serve
Jochen Nickel
Josef Hoegen
Jan Decleir
Ferdinand Kütter
Wolfgang Michael
Peter Hüppeler
Irina Sokolova
Friedel Krämer
Svetlana Gaytan
Susanne Bredehöft
Sergey Bekhterev
Jean Jülich
Karl Ripke (old)
Oleg Sokolov
Gestapo officer
Production Companies
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
First Floor Features
X Filme Creative Pool
WDR
