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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Klaus PiontekWerner Bertin
Milan NedělaHauptmann Niggel
Dietmar Richter-ReinickWilhelm Pahl
Jürgen HentschKarl Lebede
Carl Heinz ChoynskiUnteroffizier Glinski
Uwe KockischChristoph Kroysing
Klaus-Peter ThieleLeutnant Mettner
Klaus ManchenPater Lochner
Ralph BoettnerOberst Stein
Paul ArenkensMajor JantschExplore the crew
- Director
- Egon Günther
- Screenplay
- Egon Günther
- Screenplay
- Heinz Kamnitzer
- Editor
- Rita Hiller