DramaHistoryWar
I Was Nineteen
A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.
Directed by Konrad Wolf
74
User score
20 votes
Status
Released
Released
February 1, 1968
Runtime
1h 55m
Language
German
Top cast
Jaecki Schwarz
Gregor Hecker
Vasiliy Livanov
Wadim
Rolf Hoppe
Etappenmajor Behring
Galina Polskikh
Sowjetisches Mädchen
Jürgen Hentsch
Oberleutnant Schenk, Adjutant
Kurt Böwe
SS-Sturmbannführer
Hermann Beyer
Zweiter befreiter Häftling
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Sowjetisches General
Jenny Gröllmann
deutsches Mädchen
Wolfgang Greese
Landschaftsarchitekt
Johannes Wieke
Oberst Lewerenz
Fritz Mohr
Feldwebel
Otto Lang
Pfarrer
Aleksey Eybozhenko
Anatoliy Solovyov
Klaus Manchen
Walter Bechstein
Afanasi Kochetkov
Dieter Mann
Wolfgang Winkler
