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I Was Nineteen (1968)

1h 55m

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I Was Nineteen (1968)

Name: I Was Nineteen
Genre: Drama, History, War & Politics
Released: 1968-02-01

1h 55m

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February 1, 1968
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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.

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Release Date
February 1, 1968

Original Name
Ich war neunzehn

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 55m

Genres
Drama History War & Politics

Last updated: 2025-03-06

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east germany

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I Was Nineteen (German: Ich war neunzehn) is a 1968 East German film produced by Konrad Wolf for the DEFA studio.

The film tells the story of a young German, Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz), who fled the Nazis with his parents to Moscow and now, in early 1945, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army. The film strives to maintain an aura of authenticity and pay homage to history by intersplicing fictional sequences with real documentary sequences and having references to popular/well-known music and literature at the time. The film depicts the personal experiences of the director Konrad Wolf and of his friend Vladimir Gall in fictionalized form and deals with themes of the meaning of "homeland".

During its original run, it sold 3,317,966 tickets.