Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the ...
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Title: Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965)
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| Klaus-Peter Thiele | ... | Werner Holt | |
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Manfred Karge | ... | Gilbert Wolzow |
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Arno Wyzniewski | ... | Sepp Gomulka |
| Günter Junghans | ... | Christian Vetter | |
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Peter Reusse | ... | Peter Wiese |
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Wolfgang Langhoff | ... | Werners Vater, Professor Holt |
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Karla Chadimová | ... | Milena |
| Monika Woytowicz | ... | Gundel | |
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Dietlinde Greiff | ... | Marie Krüger |
| Angelica Domröse | ... | Uta Barnim | |
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Maria Alexander | ... | Gertie Ziesche |
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Wolf Kaiser | ... | Generalmajor Wolzow |
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Erika Pelikowsky | ... | Frau Wolzow |
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Martin Flörchinger | ... | Sepp's Vater, Rechtsanwalt Gomulka |
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Helga Göring | ... | Mutter Gomulka |
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Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war. When Gilbert is hanged by the SS, Werner turns his gun on his own army. This film, based on Dieter Noll's novel, is a political and artistic masterpiece. Its fresh and surprising frankness about the toll war takes on youth found great public resonance after the film's release. Written by DEFA Film Library
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East GermanyLanguage:
GermanRelease Date:
4 February 1965 (East Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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This movie is a cult sleeper waiting to be discovered. If war can be funny than this movie is as funny as "Full Metal Jacket". The end of the Second World War is seen through the eyes of two German teenage boys, one a fanatic Nazi caught up in the glory of war and the other is his friend awed by the experiences they have at the end of the war fighting for a hopelessly lost cause. The nightmarish landscape, photography and surreal atmosphere of situations and characters captures the madness of war in Germany with a unique childlike wishful thinking expressed by the characters. A unique perspective of war that ranks with the movies "Cross of Iron" and Breakthrough"